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• 9 • Introduction (Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction) • (1999) • essay by Damien Broderick
• 22 • The Other Editor's Introduction (Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction) • (1999) • essay by David G. Hartwell
• 26 • Flowering Mandrake • (1994) • novelette by George Turner
• 63 • The Mountain Movers • [John Grimes] • (1971) • novelette by A. Bertram Chandler
• 82 • Things Fall Apart • (1988) • novelette by Philippa C. Maddern
• 101 • Written in Blood • (1999) • short story by Chris Lawson
• 116 • Pie Row Joe • (1978) • short story by Kevin McKay
• 127 • A Map of the Mines of Barnath • (1995) • short story by Sean Williams
• 150 • My Lady Tongue • (1988) • novelette by Lucy Sussex
• 188 • Wang's Carpets • (1995) • novelette by Greg Egan
• 220 • The Dominant Style • (1991) • short story by Sean McMullen
• 233 • Borderline • (1996) • novella by Leanne Frahm
• 272 • Privateers' Moon • [The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros] • (1992) • novelette by Terry Dowling
• 299 • Re-deem the Time • (1978) • short story by David J. Lake
• 313 • Matters of Consequence • (1992) • short story by Shane Dix
• 321 • The Total Devotion Machine • (1989) • short story by Rosaleen Love
• 329 • The Colonel's Tiger • [Man-Kzin Wars] • (1995) • novella by Hal Colebatch
• 388 • The Soldier in the Machine • (1998) • novelette by Russell Blackford
• 411 • From Whom All Blessings Flow • (1995) • novelette by Stephen Dedman
• 431 • Looking Forward to the Harvest • (1991) • novelette by Cherry Wilder
• 456 • The Magi • (1982) • novelette by Damien Broderick
• 494 • The Chance • (1979) • novelette by Peter Carey