Introduction: Beginnings / Marty Halpern
The thought war / Paul McAuley
How to talk to girls at parties / Neil Gaiman
Face value / Karen Joy Fowler
The road not taken / Harry Turtledove
The aliens who knew, I mean, everything / George Alec Effinger
I am the doorway / Stephen King
Recycling strategies for the inner city / Pat Murphy
The 43 antarean dynasties / Mike Resnick
The gold bug / Orson Scott Card
Guerrilla mural of a siren's song / Ernest Hogan
The first contact with the gorgonids / Ursula K. Le Guin
Sunday night yams at Minnie and Earl's / Adam-Troy Castro
A midwinter's tale / Michael Swanwick
Texture of other ways / Mark W. Tiedemann
To go boldly / Cory Doctorow
If nudity offends you / Elizabeth Moon
Laws of survival / Nancy Kress
What you are about to see / Jack Skillingstead
Amanda and the alien / Robert Silverberg
Exo-skeleton town / Jeffrey Ford
Lambing season / Molly Gloss
MAXO signals / Charles Stross
Last contact / Stephen Baxter.
