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• ix • Introduction (Nebula Awards 31) • (1997) • essay by Pamela Sargent
• 3 • Rumaging Through the Giant Purse • (1997) • essay by Paul Di Filippo
• 6 • Touchstones for Gender-Benders • (1997) • essay by Nancy Spinger
• 10 • Planet Deseret • (1997) • essay by Judith Moffett
• 16 • The British Scene (Nebula Awards 31) • (1997) • essay by Ian Watson
• 20 • Gresham's Law and Science Fiction • (1997) • essay by Robert Silverberg
• 25 • Family Values • (1997) • essay by Michaela Roessner
• 29 • Solitude • [Hainish] • (1994) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 59 • Death and the Librarian • (1994) • shortstory by Esther M. Friesner
• 74 • Alien Jane • (1995) • shortstory by Kelley Eskridge
• 93 • Think Like a Dinosaur • (1995) • novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• 114 • In Memoriam: John Brunner and Roger Zelazny • (1997) • essay by Ian Watson and Jack Dann and Jack C. Haldeman, II
• 131 • The Lincoln Train • (1995) • shortstory by Maureen F. McHugh
• 146 • The Resurrection Man's Legacy • (1995) • novelette by Dale Bailey
• 183 • Pilot, Pilot • (1994) • poem by David Lunde
• 186 • Skin of Glass • (1994) • poem by Dan Raphael
• 188 • You See But You Do Not Observe • (1995) • shortstory by Robert J. Sawyer
• 206 • Old Legends • (1995) • essay by Gregory Benford
• 223 • A. E. van Vogt: Prefatory Remarks • (1997) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 225 • A. E. van Vogt: An Appreciation • (1997) • essay by Charles L. Harness
• 231 • Enchanted Village • (1950) • shortstory by A. E. van Vogt
• 246 • It'll Float, but Can It Fly? Science Fiction and Fantasy Films of 1995 • (1997) • essay by Kathi Maio
• 262 • The Narcissus Plague • (1994) • shortstory by Lisa Goldstein
• 272 • Last Summer at Mars Hill • (1994) • novella by Elizabeth Hand