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• ix • Preface (Futures Past) • essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
• 1 • Aristotle and the Gun • (1958) • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• 41 • Sitka • (2004) • short story by William Sanders
• 57 • The Only Game in Town • [Time Patrol • 4] • (1960) • novelette by Poul Anderson
• 93 • Playing the Game • (1982) • short story by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
• 102 • Killing the Morrow • (1996) • short story by Robert Reed
• 118 • Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne • [Institute for Impure Science] • (1967) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 131 • The Game of Blood and Dust • (1975) • short story by Roger Zelazny
• 137 • Calling Your Name • (2003) • short story by Howard Waldrop
• 153 • What Rough Beast • (1959) • novelette by Damon Knight (variant of What Rough Beast?)
• 185 • O Brave Old World! • (1976) • novelette by Avram Davidson
• 202 • Radiant Doors • (1998) • short story by Michael Swanwick
• 221 • The Hotel at Harlan's Landing • [The Company Short Fiction] • (2002) • short story by Kage Baker
• 237 • Mozart in Mirrorshades • (1985) • short story by Lewis Shiner and Bruce Sterling
• 256 • Under Siege • (1985) • novelette by George R. R. Martin