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• Story Introductions (Future on Fire) • essay by Orson Scott Card
• 1 • Introduction: Science Fiction in the 1980's • essay by Orson Scott Card
• 12 • Rachel in Love • (1987) • novelette by Pat Murphy
• 44 • Dogfight • (1985) • novelette by William Gibson and Michael Swanwick
• 69 • A Gift from the GrayLanders • (1985) • novelette by Michael Bishop
• 90 • Fire Zone Emerald • (1986) • novelette by Lucius Shepard
• 117 • Down and Out in the Year 2000 • (1986) • short story by Kim Stanley Robinson
• 136 • Angel Baby • (1982) • novelette by Rachel Pollack
• 159 • The Neighbor's Wife • (1985) • poem by Susan Palwick
• 164 • I Am the Burning Bush • (1982) • short story by Gregg Keizer
• 182 • Pretty Boy Crossover • (1986) • short story by Pat Cadigan
• 194 • Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight • (1987) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 226 • All My Darling Daughters • (1985) • novelette by Connie Willis
• 253 • In the Realm of the Heart, in the World of the Knife • (1985) • short story by Wayne Wightman
• 270 • Rat • (1986) • short story by James Patrick Kelly
• 285 • Vestibular Man • (1985) • novelette by Felix C. Gotschalk
• 318 • Green Days in Brunei • (1985) • novella by Bruce Sterling