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• vii •  Northwest Area of the Commonwealth (map) • interior artwork by Suford Lewis
• xi • Gene Wolfe • (1984) • essay by David G. Hartwell
• xv • Logology • (1984) • essay by Gene Wolfe
• 3 • The Books in The Book of the New Sun • (1984) • essay by Gene Wolfe
• 17 • In Looking-Glass Castle • (1980) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 33 • The Rubber Bend • (1974) • novelette by Gene Wolfe
• 57 • The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton • (1977) • novelette by Gene Wolfe
• 79 • When I Was Ming the Merciless • (1976) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 87 • The Horars of War • (1970) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 107 • A Criminal Proceeding • (1980) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 115 • The Detective of Dreams • (1980) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 137 • British Soldier Near Rapier Antiaircraft Missile Battery Scans for the Enemy • (1984) • poem by Gene Wolfe
• 138 • Last Night in the Garden of Forking Tongues • (1984) • poem by Gene Wolfe
• 139 • The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps • (1977) • poem by Gene Wolfe
• 145 • The Anatomy of a Robot • (1983) • essay by Gene Wolfe