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• 11 • Introduction (Northern Stars: The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction) • essay by Glenn Grant
• 15 • We Have Met the Alien (And It Is Us) • (1985) • essay by Judith Merril
• 24 • A Niche • (1990) • novelette by Peter Watts
• 50 • Mother Lode • (1973) • novelette by Phyllis Gotlieb
• 68 • Home by the Sea • (1985) • short story by
  Élisabeth Vonarburg^?Elisabeth Vonarburg
  (trans. of La maison au bord de la mer)
• 82 • Under Another Moon • (1990) • novelette by Dave Duncan
• 101 • Remember, the Dead Say • (1992) • short story by Jean-Louis Trudel
• 114 • One • (1987) • novelette by Heather Spears
• 133 • The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Writer • (1982) • short story by Lesley Choyce
• 140 • User Friendly • (1986) • short story by Spider Robinson
• 148 • Distant Signals • (1984) • short story by Andrew Weiner
• 161 • The Woman Who Is the Midnight Wind • (1985) • short story by Terence M. Green
• 171 • The Winter Market • (1985) • novelette by William Gibson
• 188 • The Byrds • (1983) • short story by Michael G. Coney
• 200 • Soluble-Fish • (1987) • short story by
  Joël Champetier^?Joel Champetier
  (trans. of Poisson-soluble 1985)
• 203 • Memetic Drift • (1990) • short story by Glenn Grant
• 219 • The Reckoning of Gifts • (1992) • novelette by James Alan Gardner
• 236 • The Cauldron (excerpt) • [Courtship Rite Universe] • short fiction by Donald Kingsbury [as by Donald M. Kingsbury]
• 254 • Happy Days in Old Chernobyl • (1987) • short story by
  Claude-Michel Prévost^?Claude-Michel Prevost
  (trans. of La marquise de Tchernobyl)
• 263 • Pity the Monsters • [Newford] • (1991) • short story by Charles de Lint
• 275 • Carpe Diem • (1989) • short story by Eileen Kernaghan
• 282 • Xils • (1987) • short story by Esther Rochon (trans. of Xils 1985)
• 286 • Stolen Fires • (1991) • short story by Yves Meynard
• 296 • Retrieval • (1987) • short story by John Park
• 308 • Outport • (1992) • short story by Garfield Reeves-Stevens
• 318 • Just Like Old Times • (1993) • short story by Robert J. Sawyer
• 329 • Stardust Boulevard • (1985) • short story by Daniel Sernine (trans. of Le vieil homme et l'espace 1981)
• 343 • Ballads in 3/4 Time • (1987) • short story by Robert Charles Wilson
• 354 • (Learning About) Machine Sex • (1988) • short story by Candas Jane Dorsey
• 370 • Towards a Real Speculative Literature: Writer as Asymptote • (1990) • essay by Candas Jane Dorsey
• 374 • Canadian SF Awards (Northern Stars: The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction) • (1994) • essay by uncredited