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Editor's Note - essay by Shawna McCarthy With Thimbles, with Forks, and Hope - novella by Kate Wilhelm Alien Lover - short story by Ted Reynolds and William F. Wu Mud/Aurora - novelette by D. D. Storm The Dim Rumble - short story by Isaac Asimov Limits - short story by Larry Niven Johnny Beercans - short story by George Guthridge and Steve Perry [as by George Florance-Guthridge and Steve Perry] The Anatomy Lesson - short story by Scott Russell Sanders The Boarder - short story by Madeleine E. Robins [as by Madeleine Robins] A Spaceship Built of Stone - short story by Lisa Tuttle Renascence - novelette by Mary Kittredge The Invisible Foe - short story by Garry Kilworth The Day of the Trifles - short story by Jon L. Breen I Have a Winter Reason - short story by Melisa Michaels One Kidnapped Clicka - short story by John Kelly Improbable Bestiary: The Bug-Eyed Monster - poem by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre Slac// - novelette by Michael P. Kube-McDowell Headlines by the Dozens (Right in My Own Kitchen) - poem by David R. Bunch Playing for Keeps - short story by Jack C. Haldeman, II Coursing - short story by Barry N. Malzberg Conversion - novelette by Bob Shaw