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Table of Contents:

• Foreword: Coming Attractions - essay by Edward Bryant
• Introduction: Flashforward to 2076 - essay by Peter S. Alterman
• A Red, White and Blue Fourth of July - novelette by Karl Hansen
• Escape Is No Accident - shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
• Feminine Demystification - poem by Jo Ann Harper
• The Dust of Evening - shortstory by Robert Crais
• The Death of Sappho - novelette by Marge Piercy
• Like Snow-Humped Fields Afraid of Rain - poem by William John Watkins
• And I for an Eye - shortstory by James A. Stevens
• Emissary from Hamelin - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Corruption of Metals - poem by Sonya Dorman
• Aztecs - novella by Vonda N. McIntyre
• X-2076 - poem by Peter Dillingham
• The Biological Revolution - shortstory by Robert E. Vardeman and Jeff Slaten
• One Road to Damascus - shortstory by James Sallis and David Lunde
• Welcome to the Tricentennial - novelette by Patrick Henry Prentice

Stoker and World Fantasy Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in the anthology Book of the Dead (1989), edited by John Skipp and Craig Spector. The story can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection (1990), edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Loci - (1973) - essay
• The Hanged Man - (1972) - shortstory
• Shark - (1973) - shortstory
• No. 2 Plain Tank Auxiliary Fill Structural Limit 17,605 lbs. Fuel-PWA Spec. 522 Revised - (1972) - shortstory
• Adrift on the Freeway - (1970) - shortstory
• Jody After the War - (1972) - shortstory
• Teleidoscope - (1973) - shortstory
• The Poet in the Hologram in the Middle of Prime Time - (1972) - shortstory
• The Human Side of the Village Monster - (1971) - shortstory
• Among the Dead - (1971) - shortstory
• File on the Plague - (1971) - shortstory
• The Soft Blue Bunny Rabbit Story - (1971) - shortstory
• Tactics - (1973) - shortstory
• Sending the Very Best - (1970) - shortstory
• Their Thousandth Season - (1972) - shortstory
• Love Song of Herself - (1971) - shortstory
• Pinup - (1973) - shortstory
• Dune's Edge - (1972) - shortstory

Nebula Award winning and Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1979. The story can also be found in the anthologies Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Ninth Annual Collection (1980), edited by Gardner Dozois Nebula Winners Fifteen (1981), edited by Frank Herbert, and The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF (1994), edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. It included in the collections Wyoming Sun (1980) and Particle Theory (1981).

A collection of many of Bryant's best works, including two Nebula Award winning short stories. "The stories in his collection Particle Theory showed me that science could be used metaphorically to illuminate human experience, and that the personal could reinforce the "big ideas" rather than compete with them. I discovered him when I was in college, at the same time I first started reading writers like William Gibson and Gene Wolfe and John Crowley. They all expanded my ideas of what SF could do, but the one whose influence on my work is clearest is Bryant." -- Ted Chiang

Table of Contents

• Introduction: The Legacy of Hans Christian Sauropod - (1981) - essay
• Particle Theory - (1977) - shortstory
• The Thermals of August - (1981) - novelette
• Hayes and the Heterogyne - (1974) - novelette
• Teeth Marks - (1979) - shortstory
• Winslow Crater - (1978) - poem
• Shark - (1973) - shortstory
• Precession - (1980) - shortstory
• Stone - (1978) - shortstory
• Strata - (1980) - novelette
• The Hibakusha Gallery - (1977) - shortstory
• giANTS - (1979) - shortstory
• To See - (1980) - shortstory

Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, February 1977. The story can be found in the anthologies The 1978 Annual World's Best SF, edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha, Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Seventh Annual Collection (1978), edited by Gardner Dozois, Nebula Winners Thirteen (1980), edited by Samuel R. Delany, The Road to Science Fiction 4: From Here to Forever (1982), edited by James E. Gunn, and Modern Classics of Science Fiction (1991), edited by Gardner Dozois. It is included in the collection Particle Theory (1981)

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The Starlost: 2785 A.D.

They had banished Devon from the world of Cypress Corners because he dared to challenge the Elders. And when he defied them again, they hunted him like an animal.

Then Devon stumbled on a secret passage in the hills. His whole life changed in that moment. For Devon had accidentally discovered the giant ark that was ferrying not only Cypress Corners but all other Earth cultures to another planet.

What Devon did not know was that there had been a terrible accident aboard the spaceship. The gear had been damaged, the crew dead. And the ark and all its worlds were now headed straight for destruction.

Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in the anthology Orbit 12 (1973), edtied by Damon Knight. It can also be found in the anthology Nebula Award Stories Nine (1974), edited by Kate Wilhelm and the collection Among the Dead and Other Events Leading Up to the Apocalypse (1973).

Hugoa and Nebula Award nominated short story.

In the near future, the operator of the computerized emotional feedback circuit which mediates between audience and performer at concerts becomes emotionally close to the pop singer megastar on whose tour he works.

The story originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1978. It can aslo be found in the anthology Nebula Winners Fourteen (1980) edited by Frederik Pohl and the collection Particle Theory (1981).

Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 1980. The story can also be found in A Spadeful of Spacetime (1981), edited by Fred Saberhagen, Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Tenth Annual Collection (1981), edited by Gardner Dozois, Fantasy Annual IV (1981) edited by Terry Carr, Dinosaurs! (1990), edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois, and Strange Dreams (1993) edited by Stephen R. Donaldson. It is included in the collections Wyoming Sun (1980) and Particle Theory (1981).

This short story originally appeared in the anthology Silver Scream (1988), ediited by David J. Schow. The story can also be found in the The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection (1989), edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. A chapbook edition of the story was published in 1991.

Sturgeon Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Omni, October 1994. There are no other known publications available at this time.

Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Penthouse, June 1977. It can also be found in the collection Particle Theory (1981).

Hugo and Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1981. The story can also be found in the anthologies Dragons of Darkness (1981), edited by Orson Scott Card, amd The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11 (1982), edited by Terry Carr. It is included in the collection Particle Theory (1981).

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Introduction (Neon Twilight) - essay
• 7 - Waiting in Crouched Halls - (1970) - short story [as by Ed Bryant]
• 25 - Pilots of the Twilight - [Berserker (Fred Saberhagen)] - (1984) - novella
• 99 - Neon - short fiction

As the final battle between the Nats and Bloat rages on Ellis Island, the Turtle throws in the towel, Modular Man switches sides, Reflector faces defeat, and assassins reach Bloat's chamber.