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• 5 • The Very Slow Time Machine • (1978) • novelette by Ian Watson
• 25 • The World Science Fiction Convention of 2080 • (1980) • short story by Ian Watson
• 31 • The Thousand Cuts • (1982) • short story by Ian Watson
• 45 • Slow Birds • (1983) • novelette by Ian Watson
• 71 • We Remember Babylon • (1984) • novelette by Ian Watson
• 91 • The People on the Precipice • (1985) • short story by Ian Watson
• 103 • Ahead! • (1995) • short story by Ian Watson
• 115 • Cold Light • (1986) • novelette by Ian Watson
• 145 • Salvage Rites • (1987) • short story by Ian Watson
• 157 • The Moon and Michelangelo • (1987) • novelette by Ian Watson
• 183 • The Emir's Clock • (1987) • short story by Ian Watson
• 199 • Lost Bodies • (1988) • short story by Ian Watson
• 211 • Stalin's Teardrops • (1990) • short story by Ian Watson
• 239 • The Eye of the Ayatollah • (1990) • short story by Ian Watson
• 247 • Swimming with the Salmon • (1992) • short story by Ian Watson
• 263 • The Coming of Vertumnus • (1992) • novella by Ian Watson
• 309 • The Bible in Blood • (1994) • novelette by Ian Watson
• 333 • The Great Escape • (1996) • short story by Ian Watson
• 349 • One of Her Paths • (2001) • novella by Ian Watson
• 395 • The Black Wall of Jerusalem • (2002) • novelette by Ian Watson
• 425 • A Speaker for the Wooden Sea • (2002) • novella by Ian Watson
• 475 • An Appeal to Adolf • (2004) • short story by Ian Watson
• 495 • Giant Dwarfs • (2005) • novelette by Ian Watson
• 515 • Saving for a Sunny Day or, The Benefits of Reincarnation • short fiction by Ian Watson (variant of Saving for a Sunny Day, or, the Benefits of Reincarnation 2006)
• 527 • Story Notes (The Best of Ian Watson) • essay by Ian Watson