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• 1 • From Category to Genre in a Bookselling Sense or When Sales and Popularity Begin to Command Respect • (2004) • essay by Brian M. Thomsen [as by Brian Thomsen]
• 5 • Out of the Deep • [Valdemar] • (2004) • novelette by Mercedes Lackey
• 41 • Earthborne • [Witch World Universe] • (2004) • short story by Andre Norton
• 67 • Mything in Dreamland • [Myth Adventures] • (2004) • novelette by Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye
• 99 • Race for the Sky • [The Bifrost Guardians] • (2004) • novelette by Mickey Zucker Reichert
• 137 • Shadamehr and the Old Wive's Tale • [Sovereign Stone] • (2004) • short story by Don Perrin and Margaret Weis (variant of Shadamehr and the Old Wives Tale 1999)
• 167 • Serenade • [Spellsinger] • (2004) • novelette by Alan Dean Foster
• 211 • Child of Prophecy • [The Wars of Light and Shadow] • (2004) • novelette by Janny Wurts
• 247 • The Afterlife of St. Vidicon of Cathode • [Saint Vidicon] • (2004) • novelette by Christopher Stasheff
• 289 • The Elf House • [Lord of the Isles] • (2004) • short story by David Drake
• 311 • Gifts • [Paksenarrion Universe] • (2004) • novelette by Elizabeth Moon
• 343 • The Amorous Broom • [John Justin Mallory] • (2004) • short story by Mike Resnick
• 359 • Web of Deception • [Bahzell • 5] • (2004) • novel by David Weber