Contents: Introduction : science fiction in the 1980s / Orson Scott Card -- Rachel in love / Pat Murphy -- Dogfight / Michael Swanick and William Gibson -- A gift from the graylanders / Michael Bishop -- Fire zone emerald / Lucius Shepard -- Down and out in the year 2000 / Kim Stanley Robinson -- Angel baby / Rachel Pollack -- The neighbor's wife / Susan Palwick -- I am the burning bush / Gregg Keizer -- Pretty boy crossover / Pat Cadigan -- Buffalo gals, won't you come out tonight / Ursula K. Le Guin -- All my darling daughters / Connie Willis -- In the realm of the heart, in the world of the knife / Wayne Wightman -- Rat / James Patrick Kelly -- Vestibular man / Felix C. Gotschalk -- Green days in Brunei / Bruce Sterling.