Table of Contents

Title Page
Preface
The Chapter Ends - POUL ANDERSON

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Watershed - JAMES BLISH
Slow Tuesday Night - R. A. LAFFERTY
Aye, and Gomorrah - SAMUEL R. DELANY
Nobody’s Home - JOANNA RUSS
The Hero as Werwolf - GENE WOLFE
Halfjack - ROGER ZELAZNY
Dancers in the Time-Flux - ROBERT SILVERBERG
Spook - BRUCE STERLING
Understand - TED CHIANG
None So Blind - JOE HALDEMAN
Mortimer Gray’s History of Death - BRIAN STABLEFORD

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Brother Perfect - ROBERT REED

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A Child of the Dead - LIZ WILLIAMS

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Nevermore - IAN R. MACLEOD
The Wisdom of Old Earth - MICHAEL SWANWICK
Toast: A Con Report - CHARLES STROSS
The Gardens of Saturn - PAUL J. McAULEY
Grist - TONY DANIEL

Jill
Bender
Bite

Fossil Games - TOM PURDOM
The Wedding Album - DAVID MARUSEK
Steps Along the Way - ERIC BROWN
Border Guards - GREG EGAN
Epilogue
Homo Sapiens Declared Extinct - BRUCE STERLING
A History of the Human and Post-Human Species - GEOFFREY A. LANDIS
The Great Goodbye - ROBERT CHARLES WILSON

Acknowledgements
ALSO BY GARDNER DOZOIS
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