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• xi • Summation: 1990 • (1991) • essay by Gardner Dozois
• 1 • Mr. Boy • (1990) • novella by James Patrick Kelly
• 55 • The Shobies' Story • [Hainish] • (1990) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 79 • The Caress • (1990) • novelette by Greg Egan
• 101 • A Braver Thing • (1990) • novelette by Charles Sheffield
• 129 • We See Things Differently • (1989) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
• 147 • And the Angels Sing • (1990) • short story by Kate Wilhelm
• 165 • Past Magic • (1990) • short story by Ian R. MacLeod
• 179 • Bears Discover Fire • (1990) • short story by Terry Bisson
• 190 • The All-Consuming • (1990) • novelette by Robert Frazier and Lucius Shepard
• 213 • Personal Silence • (1990) • novelette by Molly Gloss
• 232 • Invaders • (1990) • novelette by John Kessel
• 253 • The Cairene Purse • (1990) • novella by Michael Moorcock
• 307 • The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk • (1990) • novelette by Dafydd ab Hugh
• 332 • Tower of Babylon • (1990) • novelette by Ted Chiang
• 354 • The Death Artist • (1990) • novelette by Alexander Jablokov
• 382 • The First Since Ancient Persia • (1990) • novelette by John Brunner
• 421 • Inertia • (1990) • novelette by Nancy Kress
• 447 • Learning to Be Me • (1990) • short story by Greg Egan
• 461 • Cibola • (1990) • short story by Connie Willis
• 478 • Walking the Moons • (1990) • short story by Jonathan Lethem
• 483 • Rainmaker Cometh • (1989) • short story by Ian McDonald
• 496 • Hot Sky • (1990) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 517 • White City • (1990) • short story by Lewis Shiner
• 523 • Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates • (1990) • short story by Pat Murphy
• 533 • The Hemingway Hoax • (1990) • novella by Joe Haldeman
• 619 • Honorable Mentions: 1990 • (1991) • essay by Gardner Dozois