Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • Introduction (Nebula Award Stories 17) • essay by Joe Haldeman
• 9 • 1981 and Counting • (1982) • essay by Algis Budrys
• 19 • Venice Drowned • (1981) • novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
• 44 • The Quiet • (1981) • short story by George Guthridge [as by George Florance-Guthridge]
• 60 • Going Under • (1981) • novelette by Jack Dann
• 88 • Johnny Mnemonic • (1981) • short story by William Gibson
• 109 • Films and Television—1981 • (1982) • essay by Baird Searles
• 116 • Zeke • (1981) • short story by Tim Sullivan [as by Timothy Robert Sullivan]
• 131 • The Saturn Game • [Technic History] • (1981) • novella by Poul Anderson
• 196 • Disciples • (1981) • short story by Gardner Dozois
• 209 • The Quickening • (1981) • novelette by Michael Bishop
• 242 • The Pusher • (1981) • short story by John Varley
• 261 • The Claw of the Conciliator (Excerpt) • (1981) • short fiction by Gene Wolfe
• 280 • Meeting Place • (1980) • poem by Ken Duffin
• 281 • On Science Fiction • (1980) • poem by Thomas M. Disch [as by Tom Disch]
• 285 • Appendices (Nebula Award Stories Seventeen) • essay by uncredited