Daughter earth / James Morrow -- Dogstar man / Nancy Willard -- Prism tree / Tony Daniel -- Desert rain / Mark L. Van Name and Pat Murphy -- Precious moments / Kristine Kathryn Rusch -- Lethe / Peg Kerr -- Lake Agassiz / Jack McDevitt -- Transfusion / Joelle Wintrebert -- The dark at the corner of the eye / Patricia Anthony -- Tracking the random variable / Marcos Donnelly -- Division by Zero / Ted Chiang -- Matter's end / Gregory Benford -- Newton's sleep / Ursula K. Le Guin -- The helping hand / Norman Spinrad -- Fondest of memories / Kevin J. Anderson -- Loitering at death's door / Wolfgang Jeschke -- Rokuro / Poul Anderson -- Police actions / Barry N. Malzberg -- Black glass / Karen Joy Fowler -- Chango Chingamadre, Dutchman, & me / R. V. Branham -- Apartheid, superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana / Michael Bishop -- Snow on sugar mountain / Elizabeth Hand -- When the rose is dead / David Zindell