"Cover art copyright © 1988 by Peter Stallard"--Title page verso.

Introduction / Lou Aronica And Shawna McCarthy -- Voices of the kill / Thomas M. Disch -- This is the year zero / Andrew Weiner -- Proselytes / Gregory Benford -- The fourth moxie branch / Jack McDevitt -- Prayerware / Jack Massa -- Mannequins / Charles Oberndorf -- Moments of clarity / Elissa Malcohn -- A gift of the people / Robert Samson -- The last rainmaker song / Jeffrey J. Mariotte -- Tinker to evers to chance / Steven Bryan Bieler -- The farm system / Howard V. Hendrix -- Ghost ship / Walton Simons -- Phillipa's hands / Nancy Kress -- Reflections in a magnetic mirror / Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason -- Listening / Ronnie Seagren -- My year with the aliens / Lisa Goldstein -- Oz / Lewis Shiner -- Dead men on tv / Pat Murphy -- Once in a lullaby / Fred Bals -- My imaginary parents / T.L. Parkinson -- Bible stories for adults, no. 17: the deluge / James Morrow -- Beyond the seventh sphere / Aaron Schutz -- Magister Rudy / Richard Grant -- The thing itself / Michael Blumlein -- Journals of the plague years / Norman Spinrad.