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• To Plant a Seed • short story by Hank Davis
• Things Go Better • short story by George Alec Effinger [as by Geo. Alec Effinger]
• They Cope • short story by David J. Skal [as by Dave Skal]
• The Summer of the Irish Sea • short story by Charles L. Grant [as by C. L. Grant]
• The Drum Lollipop • short story by Jack Dann [as by Jack M. Dann]
• The Chrystallization of the Myth • short story by John Barfoot (variant of Chrystallization of the Myth)
• Spectra • short story by Vonda N. McIntyre
• On the Road to Honeyville • short story by Kate Wilhelm
• Old Soul • short story by Steve Herbst
• New York Times • short story by Charles Platt
• Machines of Loving Grace • short story by Gardner Dozois [as by Gardner R. Dozois]
• I Remember a Winter • short story by Frederik Pohl
• Good-Bye, Shelley, Shirley, Charlotte, Charlene • short story by Robert Thurston
• Father's in the Basement • short story by Philip José Farmer
• Dune's Edge • short story by Edward Bryant
• Down by the Old Maelstrom • short story by Edward Wellen
• Doucement, S'il Vous Plaît • short story by James Sallis
• Dissolve • short story by Gary K. Wolf
• Counterpoint • short story by Joe Haldeman [as by Joe W. Haldeman]
• Alien Stones • novelette by Gene Wolfe