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Introduction: Once and Future Tsunamis — Arthur C. Clarke
Report from the Near Future: Crystallization — David Gerrold
And Tomorrow and — Adam Roberts
Abductio Ad Absurdum — Esther M. Friesner
In the Matter of Fallen Angels — Jacqueline Carey
Tiger in the Night — Brian W. Aldiss •• [as by Brian Aldiss]
The Strange Case of Jared Spoon, Who Went To Pieces for Love — Stel Pavlou
The Solipsist at Dinner — Larry Niven
The Wager •• [Lords of Avalon] — Sherrilyn Kenyon •• [as by Kinley MacGregor]
Expedition, with Recipes — Joe Haldeman
Tough Love 3001 — Juliet Marillier
Chanting the Violet Dog Down: A Tale of Noreela — short story by Tim Lebbon (variant of Chanting the Violet Dog Down)
Butterflies Like Jewels — Eric S. Nylund •• [as by Eric Nylund]
Perfection •• [Skalan Saga] — Lynn Flewelling
The Run to Hardscrabble Station — William C. Dietz
The Last Mortal Man — Syne Mitchell
The Double-Edged Sword — Sharon Shinn
Night of the Dolls — Shane Dix and Sean Williams
The Day of Glory •• [Hammer’s Slammers] — David Drake
Sea Air — Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Afterword: Why Elemental? — Steven Savile
Light Years and Dark: Introduction — Michael Bishop
You and Me and the Continuum — J.G. Ballard
Halfjack — Roger Zelany
Strangeness, Charm and Spin — Kate Wilhelm
Brown Robert — Terry Carr
The Bloomsday Revolution — Ian Watson
The Dybbuk Dolls — Jack Dann
Dancing Chickens — Edward Bryant
When the Music’s Over . . . — Michael Swanwick
Terrific Park — George Alec Effinger
The Tale of the (Man) Who (Met) (God) — Norman Spinrad
Four Poems — Robert Frazier
The Starry Message to Galileo Galilei
The Supremacy of Bacteria
“We cannot escape humility.”
Cetacean Dreams
The Nine Billion Names of God — Carter Scholz
Fears — Pamela Sargent
Scrimptalon’s Test — Gerald W. Page and Michael Bishop
The Man Who Was Pregnant — Elizabeth A. Lynn
Corridors — Barry Malzberg
Crossing into Cambodia — Michael Moorcock
The Lecturer — John Kessel
Under the Hollywood Sign — Tom Reamy
Three Parodies — John Sladek
Ralph 4F by Hugogre N. Backs
Solar Shoe-Salesman by Chipdip K. Kill
The Sublimation World by J.G. B——
The Wanda Lake Number — Robert Thurston
Chambers of Memory — Gordon Eklund
Dinner Party — Gardner Dozois
The Cure — Lisa Tuttle
Paradise Beach — Richard Cowper
Getting Away — Steven Utley
The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe — Angela Carter
Dead in Irons — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
The Death of Socrates — Thomas M. Disch
Helpless, Helpless — Howard Waldrop
The Eichmann Variations — George Zebrowski
Vision Quest — Edward Willett – 2020
Call to Arms — Tanya Huff – 2020
The Tale of the Wicked — John Scalzi – 2009
The Farships Fall to Nowhere — John C. Wright – 2020
Evanescence — L.E. Modesitt,Jr. – 2020
Peel — Julie E. Czerneda – 2004
Ghost Colours — Derek Kunsken – 2015
One Million Lira — Thoraiya Dyer – 2014
Pod Dreams of Tuckertown – 2007 — Gareth L. Powell
In Silent Streams, Where Once the Summer Shone – 2020 — Seanan McGuire/a>
Welcome to the Legion of Six — Fonda Lee – 2019
Good Intentions — Christopher Ruocchio – 2020
The Greatest of These Is Hope — D.J. Butler – 2020
A Thing of Beauty — Dr. Charles E. Gannon – 2011
Home Is Where the Heart Is — David Weber – 2020
