Contents: New Light on the Drake Equation-More Adventures on Other Planets-On K2 with Kanakaredes-When This world is All on Fire-Computer Virus-Have Not Have-Lobsters-The Dog Said Bow-Wow-The Chief Designer-Neutrino Drag-Glacial-The Days Between-One-Horse Town-Moby Quilt-Raven Dream-Undone-The Real Thing-Interview:On Any Given Day-Isabel of the Fall-Into Greenwood-Know How, Can Do-Russian Vine-The Two Dicks-May Be Some Time-Marcher-The Human Front.
Oceanic: by Greg Egan ; Approaching perimelasma: by Geoffrey A. Landis ; Craphound: by Cory Doctorow ; Jedella ghost: by Tamith Lee ; Taklamakan: by Bruce Sterling ; The island of the immortals: by Ursula K. LeGuin ; Sea change, with monsters: by Paul J. McAuley ; Divided by infinity: by Robert Charles Wilson ; US: by Howard Waldrop ; The days of Solomon Gursky: by Ian McDonald ; The cuckoo's boys: by Robert Reed ; The halfway house at the heart of darkness: by William Browning Spencer ; The very pulse of the machine: by Michael Swanwick ; Story of your life: by Ted Chiang ; Voivodoi: by Liz Williams ; Saddlepoint : Roughneck: by Stephen Baxter ; This side of independence: by Rob Chilson ; Unborn again: by Chris Lawson ; Grist: by Tony Daniel ; La Cenerentola: by Gwyneth Jones ; Down in the dark: by William Barton ; Free in Asveroth: by Jim Grimsley ; The dancing floor: by Cherry Wilder ; The summer isles: by Ian R. MacLeod ; Honorable mentions: 1998.
