Jean-Claude Dunyach:“Paranamanco”by Jean-Claude Dunyach,copyright © 1987 by Jean-Claude Dunyach. Translation by Sheryl Curtis.Originally published in French in Imagine...45(June 1987). This translation reprinted by permission of the author and the translator.

Tanith Lee:“Crying in the Rain”by Tanith Lee,copyright © 1987 by Tanith Lee.Originally pub-lished in Other Edens,edited by Robert Holdstock and Christopher Evans (Unwin Paperbacks,1987).Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s estate.

Michael Moorcock:“The Frozen Cardinal”by Michael Moorcock,copyright © 1987 by Michael Moorcock.Originally published in Other Edens,edited by Robert Holdstock and Christopher Evans(Unwin Paperbacks,1987).Reprinted by permission of the author.

Pat Murphy:“Rachel in Love”by Pat Murphy,copyright © 1987 by Pat Murphy.Originally pub-lished in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine(April 1987).Reprinted by permission of the author.

Manjula Padmanabhan:“Sharing Air”by Manjula Padmanabhan,copyright © 1984 by Manjula Padmanabhan.Originally published in New Delhi in The New Sunday Express Magazine(1984)and subsequently published in slightly different form in Kleptomania(Penguin Books India,2004).Reprinted by permission of the author.

Connie Willis:“Schwarzschild Radius”by Connie Willis,copyright © 1987 by Connie Willis.Originally published in The Universe(November 1987).Reprinted by permission of the author.

Gene Wolfe:“All the Hues of Hell”by Gene Wolfe,copyright © 1987 by Gene Wolfe.Originally published in The Universe(November 1987).Reprinted by permission of the author and The Virginia Kidd Agency, Inc.

Geoffrey A. Landis:“Vacuum States”by Geoffrey A.Landis,copyright © 1988 by Geoffrey A.Lan-dis.Originally published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine(July 1988).Reprinted by permission of the author.

Han Song:“Two Small Birds”by Han Song,copyright © 1988 by Han Song.Translation copyright © 2016 by John Chu.Originally published in Chinese in 1988.This first English-language trans-lation published by permission of the author and translator.

Rachel Pollack:“Burning Sky”by Rachel Pollack,copyright © 1989 by Rachel Pollack.Originally published in Semiotext(e) SF,edited by Rudy Rucker,Peter Lamborn Wilson,and Robert Anton Wilson(Semiotext(e)/AK Press,1989).Reprinted by permission of the author.

Kim Stanley Robinson:“Before I Wake”by Kim Stanley Robinson,copyright © 1989 by Kim Stanley Robinson.Originally published in Interzone 27(January/February 1989).Reprinted by permission of the author.

Misha Nogha:“Death Is Static Death Is Movement”from Red Spider White Web by Misha Nogha,copyright © 1990 by Misha Nogha.Reprinted by permission of the author.

Michael Blumlein:“The Brains of Rats”by Michael Blumlein,copyright © 1990 by Michael Blumlein.Originally published in The Brains of Rats(Scream Press,1990).Reprinted by permission of the author.

Leena Krohn:“Gorgonoids”by Leena Krohn,copyright © 1992 by Leena Krohn.Translation by Hildi Hawkins.Originally published in Finnish in Matemaattisia olioita tai jaettuja unia(1992).This translation originally appeared in Books from Finland 1(1993).Reprinted by permission of the author.

Kojo Laing:“Vacancy for the Post of Jesus Christ”by Kojo Laing,copyright © 1992 by Kojo Laing.Originally published in The Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories,edited by Chinua Achebe and C.L.Innes(African Writers Series,1992).Reprinted by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.

Gwyneth Jones:“The Universe of Things”by Gwyneth Jones,copyright © 1993 by Gwyneth Jones.Originally published in New Worlds 3,edited by David Garnett(Gollancz,1993).Reprinted by permission of the author.

Robert Reed:“The Remoras”by Robert Reed,copyright © 1994 by Robert Reed.Originally pub-lished in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction(May 1994).Reprinted by permission of the author.

Geoffrey Maloney:“Remnants of the Virago Crypto-System”by Geoffrey Maloney,copyright © 1995 by Geoffrey Maloney.Originally published in The Silver Web 12(Summer 1995).Reprinted by permission of the author.

Stepan Chapman:“How Alex Became a Machine”by Stepan Chapman,copyright © 1996 by Ste-pan Chapman.Excerpted from The Troika(Ministry of Whimsy Press,1997),with one section,“Spraying for Bugs,”originally published in Fantastic Worlds vol.1,no.1(1996).Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.

Cixin Liu:“The Poetry Cloud”by Cixin Liu.Translation by Chi-yin Ip and Cheuk Wong.Originally published in Chinese in Kehuan Shijie(March 1997).This translation originally published in Ren-ditions 77(Spring 2012) and 78(Autumn 2012).Reprinted by permission of the Research Centre for Translation,The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Ted Chiang:“Story of Your Life”by Ted Chiang,copyright © 1998 by Ted Chiang.Originally pub-lished in Starlight 2,edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden(Tor Books,1998).Reprinted by permis-sion of the author.

Cory Doctorow:“Craphound”by Cory Doctorow,copyright © 1998 by Cordoc-Co LLC.Originally published in Science Fiction Age(March 1998).Reprinted by permission of the author.

Tatyana Tolstaya:“The Slynx”originally published as chapter 1 of the novel The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya,copyright © 2003 by Tatyana Tolstaya.Translation copyright © 2003 by Jamey Gam-brell.Reprinted by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.

Johanna Sinisalo:“Baby Doll”by Johanna Sinisalo,copyright © 2002 by Johanna Sinisalo.Transla-tion by David Hackston.Originally published in Finnish in Intohimosta rikokseen(2002).This translation originally published in The SFWA European Hall of Fame,edited by James Morrow and Kathryn Morrow(Tor Books,2007).Reprinted by permission of the author.