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• 1 • Introduction: The Business of Lying • essay by Lou Anders
• 5 • Shuteye for the Timebroker • novelette by Paul Di Filippo
• 32 • Looking Through Mother's Eyes • short story by John Meaney
• 45 • The Man Who Knew Too Much • short story by Alan Dean Foster
• 55 • The Engines of Arcadia • short story by Sean McMullen
• 72 • The Pearl Diver • short story by
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• 92 • Before the Beginning • short story by Mike Resnick and Harry Turtledove
• 109 • Man You Gotta Go • novelette by Adam Roberts
• 137 • Homosexuals Damned, Film at Eleven • short story by Alex Irvine
• 149 • Contagion • short story by Chris Roberson
• 168 • Absalom's Mother • short story by Louise Marley
• 189 • Job Qualifications • short story by Kevin J. Anderson
• 199 • The Teosinte War • short story by Paul Melko
• 222 • Slip • short story by Robert A. Metzger
• 240 • All's Well At World's End • short story by Howard V. Hendrix
• 256 • Flashes • short story by Robert J. Sawyer
• 272 • The Cartesian Theater • novelette by Robert Charles Wilson