Description:

• 1 • Introduction (I, Alien) • essay by Mike Resnick
• 3 • Diary of a Galactic Émigré • shortstory by Laura Resnick
• 11 • The Injustice Collector • novelette by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• 39 • Creature for Hire • shortstory by Paul E. Martens
• 51 • Pedagogy • shortstory by Michael A. Burstein
• 63 • The Last Wave • shortstory by Kay Kenyon
• 73 • The Eagle Has Landed • shortstory by Robert J. Sawyer
• 81 • Correspondence with a Breeder • shortstory by Janis Ian
• 93 • Resident Alien • shortstory by Barbara Delaplace
• 109 • Xenoforming Earth • shortstory by Tom Gerencer
• 125 • The Skeptic • shortstory by Jennifer Roberson
• 129 • Natural Selection • shortstory by Laura Frankos
• 139 • Aortic Insubordination • shortstory by Batya Swift Yasgur and Barry N. Malzberg
• 151 • Harvesting • shortstory by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• 157 • What Must Be • shortstory by Josepha Sherman
• 165 • And I Will Sing a Lullaby • shortstory by Paul Crilley
• 173 • Aquarius • shortstory by Susan R. Matthews
• 187 • First Contract • shortstory by Linda J. Dunn
• 201 • Anakoinosis • shortstory by Tobias S. Buckell
• 219 • Threshold • shortstory by Terry McGarry
• 229 • Nobodies • shortstory by Adrienne Gormley
• 241 • The Loaves and the Fishes • shortstory by John DeChancie
• 251 • Alien Ground • shortstory by Anthony R. Lewis
• 265 • Hi, Colonic • shortstory by Harry Turtledove
• 275 • Acts • shortstory by William Sanders
• 285 • Life Happens • shortstory by Ralph Roberts
• 295 • You • shortstory by Stephen Leigh
• 301 • Me • shortstory by Mike Resnick