CONTENTS:
Introduction by Algis Budrys
Tomorrow’s Miracles by L. Ron Hubbard
River of Stone by Michael Green
The Mirror by Nancy Farmer
The Zombie Corps: Nine-Lives Charlie by Rayson Lorrey
High Fast Fish by John Moore
A Winter’s Night by P.H. MacEwen
The Troublesome Kordae Alliance and How It Was Settled by Flonet Biltgen
Growlers by Larry England
What Do I See In You? by Mary A. Turzillo
The Gas Man by Richard Urdiales
The Fruit Picker by Jo Beverley
Black Sun and Dark Companion by R. Garcia y Robertson
6770: The Cause by Mark D. Haw
Mother’s Day by Astrid Julian
Buffalo Dreams by Jane Mailander
Heroic Measures by Paul Edwards
Old Times There by Dennis E. Minor
What a Story Is by Algis Budrys
The Right Kind of Writing Workshop by Orson Scott
Card Diving in at Sag Harbor by Tim Powers
To the Next Generation by Ramsey Campbell
SF Illustration As an Art by Frank Kelly Freas
About the Illustrators by Frank Kelly Freas

Paperback, 425 pages

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