Contents:

• New Light on the Drake Equation by Ian R. MacLeod
• More Adventures on Other Planets by Michael Cassutt
• On K2 with Kanakaredes by Dan Simmons
• When This World Is All on Fire by William Sanders
• Computer Virus by Nancy Kress
• Have Not Have by Geoff Ryman
• Lobsters [Macx Family] by Charles Stross
• The Dog Said Bow-Wow by Michael Swanwick
• The Chief Designer by Andy Duncan
• Neutrino Drag by Paul Di Filippo
• Glacial [Conjoiner] by Alastair Reynolds
• The Days Between [as Allen Steele; Coyote] by Allen M. Steele
• One Horse Town by Howard Waldrop & Leigh Kennedy
• Moby Quilt [Lydia Duluth] by Eleanor Arnason
• Raven Dream by Robert Reed
• Undone by James Patrick Kelly
• The Real Thing by Carolyn Ives Gilman
• Interview: On Any Given Day by Maureen F. McHugh
• Isabel of the Fall by Ian R. MacLeod
• Into Greenwood [Hormling] by Jim Grimsley
• Know How, Can Do by Michael Blumlein
• Russian Vine by Simon Ings
• The Two Dicks by Paul McAuley
• May Be Some Time by Brenda W. Clough
• Marcher by Chris Beckett
• The Human Front by Ken MacLeod