The chapter ends / Poul Anderson -- Watershed / James Blish -- Slow Tuesday night / R.A. Lafferty -- Aye, and Gomorrah / Samuel R. Delany -- Nobody's home / Joanna russ -- The hero as werwolf / Gene Wolfe -- Halifack / Roger Zelazny -- Dancers in the time-flux / Robert Silverberg -- Spook / Bruce Sterling -- Understand / Ted Chiang -- None so blind / Joe Haldeman -- Mortimer Gray's history of death / Brian Stebleford -- Brother perfect / Robert Reed -- A child of the dead / Liz Williams -- Nevermore / Ian R. MacLeod -- The wisdom of old Earth / Michael Stanwick -- Toast : a con report / Charles Stross -- The gardens of Saturn / Paul J. McAuley -- Grist / Tony Daniel -- Fossil games / Tom Purdom -- The wedding album / David Marusek -- Steps along the way / Eric Brown -- Border guards / Greg Egan -- Homo sapiens delcared extinct / Bruce Sterling -- A history of the human and post-human species / Geoffrey A. Landis -- The great goodbye / Robert Charles Wilson.