Edited by Gardner Dozois.

Contents:

• Immersion by Gregory Benford
• The Dead by Michael Swanwick
• The Flowers of Aulit Prison by Nancy Kress
• A Dry, Quiet War by Tony Daniel
• Thirteen Phantasms by James P. Blaylock
• Primrose and Thorn [Primrose] by Bud Sparhawk
• The Miracle of Ivar Avenue [Hollywood] by John Kessel
• The Last Homosexual by Paul Park
• Recording Angel by Ian McDonald
• Death Do Us Part by Robert Silverberg
• The Spade of Reason by Jim Cowan
• The Cost to Be Wise by Maureen F. McHugh
• Bicycle Repairman [Chattanooga] by Bruce Sterling
• The Weighing of Ayre by Gregory Feeley
• The Longer Voyage by Michael Cassutt
• The Land of Nod [Koriba (Kirinyaga)] by Mike Resnick
• Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland by Gwyneth Jones
• The Lady Vanishes by Charles Sheffield
• Chrysalis [Sister Alice] by Robert Reed
• The Wind Over the World by Steven Utley
• Changes by William Barton
• Counting Cats in Zanzibar by Gene Wolfe
• How We Got in Town and out Again by Jonathan Lethem
• Dr. Tilmann’s Consultant: A Scientific Romance by Cherry Wilder
• Schrödinger’s Dog by Damien Broderick
• Foreign Devils by Walter Jon Williams
• In the MSOB by Stephen Baxter
• The Robot’s Twilight Companion by Tony Daniel