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• ix • Introduction (The Shimmering Door) • essay by Katharine Kerr
• 3 • Water Patterns • (1996) • short story by Jo Clayton
• 17 • Water Everywhere • (1996) • short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• 27 • La Curandera • (1996) • short story by Margaret Ball
• 41 • The Bloodstone • [Legends of Ethshar] • (1996) • short story by Lawrence Watt-Evans
• 53 • Riddle in Nine Syllables • (1996) • novelette by Karawynn Long
• 77 • Wicked Cool • (1996) • short story by Connie Hirsch
• 93 • The Sorcerer's Apprentice • (1996) • short fiction by Dennis L. McKiernan
• 95 • The String Game • (1996) • short story by Barbara A. Denz
• 109 • The Kin of Rig • (1996) • short story by Diana L. Paxson
• 121 • Family Ties • (1996) • short story by Lawrence Schimel
• 127 • The Voice of a God • (1996) • short story by Kate Daniel
• 139 • The Drowning Cell • (1996) • short story by Gregory Feeley
• 153 • A Time for Heroes • [The Laws of Power / Tymon the Black Universe] • (1996) • novelette by Richard Parks
• 177 • Dance of the Python • (1996) • short story by Janet Berliner
• 191 • Mrs. Langdon's Diary • (1996) • short story by Constance Ash
• 205 • One Late Night, with Jackal • (1996) • short story by Josepha Sherman
• 213 • Dead and Gone • (1996) • short story by Kevin Andrew Murphy
• 227 • The Hanged Man • (1996) • short story by Lisa Mason
• 241 • The Silicon Sword • short story by Katherine Lawrence
• 251 • Tea • (1996) • novelette by Esther M. Friesner
• 275 • Wall Street Wizards • (1996) • short story by Laura Resnick
• 281 • Swallow • (1996) • short story by Simon Ings
• 293 • The Most Beautiful Girl Alive • (1996) • short story by Nicholas A. DiChario and Mike Resnick
• 313 • Birds • [Newford] • (1996) • short story by Charles de Lint
• 325 • Dust and Sand • (1996) • short story by Dave Smeds
• 341 • Looking into the Heart of Light, the Silence • (1996) • short story by Mark Kreighbaum
• 349 • A Simple Act of Kindness • [Crown of Stars] • (1996) • short story by Kate Elliott
• 367 • The Peachwood Flute • (1996) • short story by Brook West and Julia H. West
• 381 • The Tenth Painting • (1996) • short story by Thomas S. Roche
• 395 • A Wreath of Pale Flowers for Vitri • (1996) • short story by Teresa Edgerton
• 409 • Hunters • (1996) • short story by Susan Shwartz
• 419 • Seven Guesses of the Heart • (1996) • short story by M. John Harrison