Sharon N. Farber

The Name of Our Field - essay by Isaac Asimov The Last Full Measure - short story by George Alec Effinger The Voyage of the Bagel - short story by Martin Gardner Pièce de Résistance - short story by J. F. Bone [as by Jesse Bone] Polly Plus - short story by Randall Garrett Wolf Tracks - poem by Donald Gaither Guilt - novelette by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn] A Choice of Weapons - short story by Michael Tennenbaum Star Train - short story by Drew Mendelson The Man Who Took the Fifth - short story by Michael Schimmel Born Again - short story by Sharon N. Farber A Child of Penzance - novelette by Tony Sarowitz Lipidleggin' - short story by F. Paul Wilson Singularity - novella by Mildred Downey Broxon

Words and music / William Sanders Beluthahatchie / Andy Duncan Renaissance / Nancy Kress Dikduk / Eliot Fintushel Pickman's modem / Lawrence Watt-Evans Thorri the poet's saga / S.N. Dyer and Lucy Kemnitzer He-we-await / Howard Waldrop The shunned trailer / Esther M. Friesner The country doctor / Steven Utley The golden keeper / Ian R. MacLeod

Editorial: Escape to Reality? - essay by Isaac Asimov In the Country of the Blind, No One Can See - short story by Melisa Michaels Keepersmith - novelette by Randall Garrett and Vicki Ann Heydron Good Taste - novelette by Isaac Asimov To Sin Against Systems - novelette by Garry R. Osgood Louisville Slugger - short story by Jack C. Haldeman, II A Delicate Shade of Kipney - short story by Nancy Kress Air Raid - short story by John Varley [as by Herb Boehm] A Many Splendored Thing - short story by Linda Isaacs Boarder Incident - short story by Ted Reynolds Low Grade Ore - novelette by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. The Missing Item - short story by Isaac Asimov Heal the Sick, Raise the Dead - short story by Steve Perry [as by Jesse Peel] Polly Plus - short story by Randall Garrett A Time for Terror - novelette by Barry B. Longyear [as by Frederick Longbeard] Perchance to Dream - short story by Sally A. Sellers The Small Stones of Tu Fu - short story by Brian W. Aldiss Born Again - short story by Sharon N. Farber Good-Bye, Robinson Crusoe - novelette by John Varley How It Happened - short story by Isaac Asimov Quarantine - short story by Arthur C. Clarke Cautionary Tales - short story by Larry Niven A Bait of Dreams - novelette by Jo Clayton Against a Crooked Stile - short story by Nancy Kress Joelle - novella by Poul Anderson Dance Band on the Titanic - novelette by Jack L. Chalker [as by Jack Chalker] Softly Touch the Stranger's Mind - short story by E. Amalia Andujar Lorelei at Storyville West - short story by Sherwood Springer On the Way - short story by Conway Conley The Napoli Express - novella by Randall Garrett Darkside - novelette by Gary D. McClellan No Room in the Stable - short story by A. Bertram Chandler African Blues - short story by Paula Smith Coming of Age in Henson's Tube - short story by William John Watkins [as by William Jon Watkins] Home Team Advantage - short story by Jack C. Haldeman, II Star Train - short story by Drew Mendelson Bystander - short story by Alan Dean Foster Time and Hagakure - short story by Steven Utley Ghosts - short story by Keith Minnion A Simple Outside Job - short story by Robert Lee Hawkins The Last Defender of Camelot - novelette by Roger Zelazny Lost and Found - short story by Michael A. Banks and George Wagner Hellhole - short story by David Gerrold The Man Who Took the Fifth - short story by Michael Schimmel The Adventure of the Global Traveler or: The Global Consequences of How the Reichenbach Falls into the Wells of Iniquitie - short story by Anne Lear Backspace - short story by F. M. Busby On the Q167 File - short story by John M. Ford Horseless Carriage - short story by Michael A. Banks Pièce de Résistance - short story by J. F. Bone [as by Jesse Bone] Lipidleggin' - short story by F. Paul Wilson Omit Flowers - short story by Dean McLaughlin Message to Myself - short story by Diana L. Paxson One Rejection Too Many - short story by Patricia Nurse But Do They Ride Dolphins? - short story by Frederick S. Lord, Jr. When There's No Man Around - short story by Stephen Goldin Longshot - short story by Jack C. Haldeman, II Nothing for Nothing - short story by Isaac Asimov To Fill the Sea and Air - short story by F. Paul Wilson Guilt - novelette by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn] Proud Rider - novelette by Barry B. Longyear

A collection forty-six horror and fantasy fiction stories from the year 1995 from a wide selection of well-known genre authors Acknowledgement -- Summation 1995: fantasy / Terry Windling -- Summation 1995: horror / Ellen Datlow -- Horror and fantasy in the media: 1995 / Edward Bryant -- Obituaries / James Frankel -- Home for Christmas / Nina Kiriki Hoffman -- Heartfires / Charles de Lint -- Screens / Terry Lamsley -- King of crows / Midori Snyder -- Professor Gottesman and the Indian rhinoceros / Peter S. Beagle -- The hunt of the unicorn / Ellen Kushner -- More tomorrow / Michael Marshall Smith -- Penguins for lunch / Scott Bradfield -- Ether OR / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Paper lantern / Stuart Dybek -- [Lunch at the Gotham café]( / Stephen King -- Queen of knives (poem) / Neil Gaiman -- Dragon-rain / Eileen Kernaghan -- Llantos de la Llorona: warnings from the wailer (poem) / Pat Mora -- Too short a death / Peter Crowther -- The James Dean garage band / Rick Moody -- Because of dust / Christopher Kenworthy -- Loop / Douglas E. Winter -- La loma, la luna / Sue Kepros Hartman -- Women's stories (poem) / Jane Yolen -- Swan/princess (poem) / Jane Yolen -- Switch / Lucy Taylor -- Scaring the train / Terry Dowling -- Blood knot / Steve Rasnic Tem -- The girl who married the reindeer (poem) / Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin -- The otter woman (poem) / Mary O'Malley -- Resolve and resistance / S.N. Dyer -- La dame / Tanith Lee -- Circe's power (poem) / Louise Glück -- Dragon's fin soup / S.P. Somtow -- The granddaughter / Vivian Vande Velde -- Daphne and Laura and so forth (poem) / Margaret Atwood -- A lamia in the Cévennes / A.S. Byatt -- The guilty party / Susan Moody -- She's not there / Pat Cadigan -- The white road (poem) / Neil Gaiman -- Refrigerator heaven / David J. Schow -- After the elephant ballet / Gary A. Braunbeck -- Henry V, part 2 / Marcia Guthridge -- Mrs. Greasy / Robert Reed -- / Joyce Carol Oates -- The printer's daughter / Delia Sherman -- Prayer (poem) / Nancy Willard -- Jacob and the angel (poem) / Jane Yolen -- The lion and the lark / Patricia A. McKillip -- Honorable mentions.