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• 5 • Editorial (Altair, August 1999) • essay by The Editors
• 7 • Honour • shortstory by Tony Shillitoe
• 16 • None So Blind • (1994) • shortstory by Joe Haldeman
• 25 • Watching the Angels • shortstory by Paul Blake
• 35 • Queen Takes Pawn • essay by Carol McLean-Carr
• 36 • Droolings ... • shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
• 38 • In Chains of Song • shortstory by Koka Li Kallio
• 43 • Where Do You Get Those Crazy Ideas? • essay by Jack McDevitt
• 49 • Ijon Tichy's Last Journey to Earth • [Ijon Tichy] • shortstory by Stanisław Lem (trans. of Ostatnia Podroz Ijona Tichego 1996) [as byStanislaw Lem]
• 57 • Evermore • novelette by Sean Williams
• 77 • Entropy IV • poem by Dylan Otto Krider
• 79 • Ickies • [Uplift Universe] • shortstory by David Brin
• 82 • Show, Not Tell • essay by Robert J. Sawyer
• 85 • Clear Shining After Rain • shortstory by John Walters
• 94 • Negative Density • shortstory by Jay Caselberg [as byJames A. Hartley]
• 101 • Where Beauty Reigns • poem by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
• 102 • Marsupials in Our Midst • poem by Ian Watson
• 104 • Hotel Missouri • shortstory by Andrew Burt
• 111 • The Hitch-Hikers Guide to French Science Fiction • essay by Jean-Claude Dunyach
• 117 • Breaking the Ice • shortstory by Robert N. Stephenson
• 127 • Talking to Chuck McKenzie • interview of Chuck McKenzie • interview by uncredited
• 129 • Pome • poem by Rob Riel
• 130 • "Laugh, You Alien Scum!" • essay by Chuck McKenzie
• 134 • Wisdom • essay by Larry Niven
• 135 • Scar Born • shortstory by Devon Monk
• 145 • 1-800-CLONE-ME • shortstory by Mary Soon Lee
• 152 •  Letters to the Editor (Altair, August 1999) • essay by The Readers