CONTENTS: ~ ~ SERIAL: Survival Instinct (Conclusion) [Edward M. Lerner]; NOVELETTES: Ineluctible [Robert J. Sawyer]; Truck Stop [Walter F. Cuirle]; SHORT STORIES: It's Only Human [Brian Plante]; Tower of Babel [Grey Rollins]; The Cat and the Pendulum [Kathy Oltion]; The Human Equations [Dave Creek]; ARTICLES: Stem Cells and Human Cloning [Joan Slonczewski]; Niven's Laws, 2002 [Larry Niven]; To Describe or Prescribe [Stanley Schmidt]; Biolog: Kathy Oltion [Jay Kay Klein]; Quark Stars [John G. Cramer]