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Perpetual Light

Introductory essay by Alan Ryan

The Pope of the Chimps novelette by Robert Silverberg

Written in Water story by Tanith Lee

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The Meat Box story by Daniel Gilbert

Ifrit story by R.A. Lafferty

Contamination story by Richard Bowker

Instant With Loud Voices story by Alan Dean Foster

Firestorm story by Steve Rasnic Tem

Be Fruitful & Multiply story by F. Paul Wilson

The Emigrant story by Joel Rosenberg

Angel of the Sixth Circle novelette by Gregg Keizer

Judgment Day story by Frank Ward

The Theology of Water novelette by Hilbert Schenck

Hamburger Heaven story by Simon Hawke [aka Nicholas Yermakov]

A Green Hill Far Away novelette by Michael P. Kube-McDowell

Small Miracles story by Mel Gilden

Relativistic Effects novelette by Gregory Benford

God's Eyes story by Craig Shaw Gardner

St Joey the Action story by Shariann Lewitt

The Magi novelette by Damien Broderick

Lest Levitation Come Upon Us novelette by Suzette Haden Elgin

The Rose of Knock story by Alan Ryan

Confess the Seasons novella by Charles L. Grant

A Private Whale novelette by Brian W. Aldiss

Audience
adult
Length
long · 490 pages

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