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• xiii • Introduction (Simulations: 15 Tales of Virtual Reality) • essay by Karie Jacobson
• 3 • The Veldt • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 21 • Overdrawn at the Memory Bank • [Eight Worlds] • (1976) • novelette by John Varley
• 60 • Walking the Moons • (1990) • short story by Jonathan Lethem
• 65 • Virtual Reality • short story by Michael Kandel
• 71 • Dogfight • (1985) • novelette by William Gibson and Michael Swanwick
• 98 • The Shining Dream Road Out • novelette by M. Shayne Bell
• 120 • The Total Perspective Vortex (excerpt from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe) • (1980) • short fiction by Douglas Adams
• 122 • Plug-in Yosemite (excerpt from Dad's Nuke) • (1985) • short fiction by Marc Laidlaw
• 139 • This Life and Later Ones • (1987) • short story by George Zebrowski
• 152 • Steelcollar Worker • short story by Vonda N. McIntyre [as by Vonda McIntyre]
• 172 • I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon • (1980) • short story by Philip K. Dick (variant of Frozen Journey)
• 195 • From Here to Eternitape • novelette by Daniel Pearlman
• 221 • Pretty Boy Crossover • (1986) • short story by Pat Cadigan
• 235 • A Guide to Virtual Death • (1992) • short story by J. G. Ballard
• 239 • The Happy Man • (1963) • novelette by Gerald W. Page [as by Gerald Page]
• 270 • Virtual Reality in Fiction (Simulations: 15 Tales of Virtual Reality) • essay by uncredited