ix • Introduction • Kate Wilhelm
1 • Dead Men on TV • ss Full Spectrum, ed. Lou Aronica & Shawna McCarthy, Bantam, 1988
12 • Women in the Trees • ss *
28 • Don’t Look Back • ss Other Worlds #2, ed. Roy Torgeson, Zebra, 1980
40 • Orange Blossom Time • ss Chrysalis 9, ed. Roy Torgeson, Doubleday, 1981
53 • In the Islands • ss Amazing Mar ’83
68 • Touch of the Bear • ss IASFM Oct ’80
83 • On a Hot Summer Night in a Place Far Away • ss IASFM May ’85
96 • Sweetly the Waves Call to Me • ss Elsewhere v1, ed. Terri Winding & Mark Alan Arnold, Ace, 1981
110 • His Vegetable Wife • ss Interzone #16 ’86
116 • Good-bye, Cynthia • ss IASFM Apr ’88
126 • Prescience • ss IASFM Jan ’89
132 • Clay Devils • ss Twilight Zone Apr ’87
141 • A Falling Star Is a Rock From Outer Space • ss IASFM Mar ’86
156 • With Four Lean Hounds • nv Sword and Sorceress #1, ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley, DAW, 1984
179 • On the Dark Side of the Station Where the Train Never Stops • ss Elsewhere v3, ed. Terri Winding & Mark Alan Arnold, Ace, 1984
192 • In the Abode of the Snows • nv IASFM mid-Dec ’86
215 • Rachel in Love
247 • Recycling Strategies for the Inner City [revised from “Scavengers”, Omni Apr 89] • ss *
257 • Bones • na IASFM May ’90
313 • Afterword—Why I Write