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• Introduction (R-A-M Random Access Messages of the Computer Age) • (1984) • essay by Thomas F. Monteleone
•  R-A-M Random Access Messages of the Computer Age • (1984) • interior artwork by Jerry Cable
• 3 • The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope • (1980) • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 6 • Computers Don't Argue • (1965) • short story by Gordon R. Dickson
• 23 • The Touch • (1983) • short story by Gregory Benford
• 30 • Copyright Infringement • (1984) • short story by David Bischoff [as by David F. Bischoff]
• 39 • Love Calls • (1982) • short story by Ben Bova
• 50 • The Nine Billion Names of God • (1953) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 57 • Armaja Das • (1976) • short story by Joe Haldeman
• 74 • Networking • (1984) • short story by Robert E. Vardeman
• 85 • Spring-Fingered Jack • non-genre • (1983) • short story by Susan Casper
• 88 • The Union Forever • (1973) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 93 • The Card • (1984) • short story by Charles L. Grant
• 102 • A Day and a Night of Brahma • (1984) • short story by Ralph Mylius
• 115 • The Schematic Man • (1969) • short story by Frederik Pohl
• 120 • LOKI 7281 • (1984) • short story by Roger Zelazny
• 127 • I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream • (1967) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 142 • The Greatest Game • (1984) • short story by Thomas F. Monteleone
• 147 • Answers • (1984) • novelette by John Sladek
• 164 • The Last Question • [Multivac] • (1956) • short story by Isaac Asimov