They're made out of meat / Terry Bisson -- A walk in the sun / Geoffrey A. Landis -- Peaches for Mad Molly / Steven Gould -- Serpents' teeth / Spider Robinson -- Uncle Joshua and the Grooglemen / Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald -- A letter from the Clearys / Connie Willis -- Brian and the aliens / Will Shetterly -- Different kinds of darkness / David Langford -- Will you be an astronaut? / Greg van Eekhout -- Cards of grief / Jane Yolen -- Tangents / Greg Bear -- The alien mind / Philip K. Dick -- Out of all them bright stars / Nancy Kress -- The Lincoln train / Maureen F. McHugh -- Arthur Sternbach brings the curveball to Mars / Kim Stanley Robinson -- Salvage / Orson Scott Card -- The great goodbye / Robert Charles Wilson.