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• ix • Introduction (Year's Best SF 3) • essay by David G. Hartwell
• 1 • Petting Zoo • (1997) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 9 • The Wisdom of Old Earth • (1997) • short story by Michael Swanwick
• 23 • The Firefly Tree • (1997) • short story by Jack Williamson
• 29 • Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City • (1997) • short story by William Gibson
• 41 • The Nostalginauts • (1997) • short story by Sharon N. Farber [as by S. N. Dyer]
• 53 • Guest Law • (1997) • novelette by John C. Wright
• 77 • The Voice • (1997) • short story by Gregory Benford
• 95 • Yeyuka • (1997) • short story by Greg Egan
• 117 • An Office Romance • (1997) • short story by Terry Bisson
• 135 • Itsy Bitsy Spider • (1997) • short story by James Patrick Kelly
• 151 • Beauty in the Night • (1997) • novelette by Robert Silverberg
• 197 • Mr. Pale • (1997) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 205 • The Pipes of Pan • (1997) • novelette by Brian Stableford
• 233 • Always True to Thee, in My Fashion • (1997) • short story by Nancy Kress
• 249 • Canary Land • (1997) • novelette by Tom Purdom
• 277 • Universal Emulators • (1997) • short story by Tom Cool
• 295 • Fair Verona • (1997) • novelette by R. Garcia y Robertson
• 331 • Great Western • (1997) • novelette by Kim Newman
• 363 • Turnover • (1997) • short story by Geoffrey A. Landis
• 369 • The Mendelian Lamp Case • [Dr Phil D'Amato] • (1997) • novelette by Paul Levinson
• 415 • Kiss Me • (1997) • short story by Katherine MacLean
• 421 • London Bone • (1997) • novelette by Michael Moorcock