• "Introduction" [essay] (
Pamela Sargent) • "Rumaging Through the Giant Purse" [essay] (
Paul Di Filippo) • "Touchstones for Gender-Benders" [essay] (
Nancy Springer) • "Planet Deseret" [essay] (
Judith Moffett) • "The British Scene" [essay] (
Ian Watson) • "Gresham's Law and Science Fiction" [essay] (
Robert Silverberg) • "Family Values" [essay] (
Michaela Roessner) • "Solitude" [Best Novelette winner, 1996] (
Ursula K. Le Guin) • "Death and the Librarian" [Best Short Story winner, 1996] (
Esther M. Friesner) • "Alien Jane" [Best Short Story nominee, 1996] (
Kelley Eskridge) • "
Think Like a Dinosaur" [Best Novelette winner, 1996] (
James Patrick Kelly) • "In Memoriam: John Brunner and Roger Zelazny" [essay] (
Ian Watson,
Jack Dann and
Jack C. Haldeman, II) • "
The Lincoln Train" [Best Short Story nominee, 1996] (
Maureen F. McHugh) • "The Resurrection Man's Legacy" [Best Novelette nominee, 1996] (
Dale Bailey) • "Pilot, Pilot" [Rhysling Award - Best Long Poem winner, 1995] (
David Lunde) • "Skin of Glass" [Rhysling Award - Best Short Poem winner, 1995] (
Dan Raphael) • "You See But You Do Not Observe" [short story] (
Robert J. Sawyer) • "Old Legends" [essay] (
Gregory Benford) • "A. E. van Vogt: Prefatory Remarks" [essay] (
Harlan Ellison) • "A. E. van Vogt: An Appreciation" [essay] (
Charles L. Harness) • "Enchanted Village" [short story] (
A. E. van Vogt) • "It'll Float, but Can It Fly? Science Fiction and Fantasy Films of 1995" [essay] (
Kathi Maio) • "The Narcissus Plague" [Best Short Story nominee, 1996] (
Lisa Goldstein) • "Last Summer at Mars Hill" [Best Novella winner, 1996] (
Elizabeth Hand) ==Reception==