Introduction / James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel
Angouleme / Thomas M. Disch
The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your crisis / Kate Wilhelm
Descent of man / T. C. Boyle
Human moments in World War III / Don DeLillo
Homelanding / Margaret Atwood
The nine billion names of God / Carter Scholz
Interlocking pieces / Molly Gloss
Salvador / Lucius Shepard
Schwarzschild radius / Connie Willis
Buddha nostril bird / John Kessel
The ziggurat / Gene Wolfe
The hardened criminals / Jonathan Lethem
Standing room only / Karen Joy Fowler
10:16 to 1 / James Patrick Kelly
The martian agent, a planetary romance / Michael Chabon
Frankenstein's daughter / Maureen F. McHugh
The wizard of West Orange / Steven Millhauser.