From the Book - First edition.
A dream of Frederik Pohl / David Lunde
Introduction / Elizabeth Anne Hull
Shoresteading / David Brin
Von Neumann's bug / Phyllis and Alex Eisenstein
Appreciation / Isaac Asimov
Sleeping dogs / Joe Haldeman
Gates (variations) / Larry Niven
Appreciation / Gardner Dozois
Tales from the spaceship Geoffrey / James Gunn
Shadows of the lost / Gregory Benford and Elisabeth Malartre
Appreciation / Connie Willis
A preliminary assessment of the Drake Equation, being an excerpt from the memoirs of Star Captain Y.-T. Lee / Vernor Vinge
Appreciation / Robert J. Sawyer
The errand boy / Frank M. Robinson
Appreciation / Robert Silverberg
The Stainless Steel Rat and the Pernicious Porcuswine / Harry Harrison
Virtually, a cat / Jody Lynn Nye
Appreciation / David Marusek
The first-born / Brian W. Aldiss
Scheherazade and the storytellers / Ben Bova
Appreciation / Joan Slonczewski
The flight of the Denartesestel Radichan / Sheri S. Tepper
The [backspace] merchants / Neil Gaiman
Appreciation / Emily Pohl-Weary
Chicken Little / Cory Doctorow
Afterword / James Frenkel.
