10 · The Guest Editorial: The Heart of a Small Boy · George R. R. Martin · ed
Guest-of-Honor speech delivered at the 61st World Science Fiction Convention.
27 · What to Expect and Not Expect from an Interstellar Voyage · Bruce Boston · pm
54 · Sisyphus and the Stranger · Paul Di Filippo · ss
first published in French translation (tr. Pierre-Paul Durastanti) as “Sisyphe et l’Étranger” (Bifrost #34, April 2004).
64 · Though I Sang in My Chains Like the Sea · William Barton · nv
12 · Thought Experiments: How Propeller-Heads, BNFs, Sercon Geeks, Newbies, Recovering GAFIAtors, and Kids in Basements Invented the World Wide Web, All Except for the Delivery System · Roger Ebert · cl The Best of Xero ed. Pat & Dick Lupoff, Tachyon, 2004