1 · The Space of Voluptuous Choice: My Affair with Science Fiction · Damien Broderick · bg
6 · A Brief History of The Fourth Circle · Zoran Živković · ar
11 · Paul Di Filippo’s Lost Pages: An Introduction · Claude Lalumière · in [Ref. Paul Di Filippo]
originally published in Spanish as prologue to Grupo AJEC (2004) edition.
18 · “Pre-Uterine Claims”: Cultural Contexts and Iconographic Parallels in Ballard’s The Atrocity Exhibition · Adrian Pocobelli · ar [Ref. J. G. Ballard]
19 · The Einstein Code by Kevin McLaurty · Ben Gory Gerdorf · fa Locus Online April 1 2004; spoof review of a book discussing Einstein’s reading habits.
1 · A Celebration, an Appreciation, a Meditation and Possibly Even a Shamelessly Blatant Promotion but by No Means a Review of Eileen Gunn’s Stable Strategies and Others · Michael Swanwick · ar [Ref. Eileen Gunn]
15 · Fear of Reason: Michael Crichton’s State of Fear · Gregory Benford & Martin Hoffert · ar The San Diego Union-Tribune January 21 2005 [Ref. Michael Crichton]
adds a new introduction.
13 · Traitor to Both Sides · Karl Schroeder · ar
summary of informal remarks made to LITA, the technology arm of the American Library Association, on June 21, 2003.
1 · The Hopkins Manuscript by R.C. Sherriff · Michael Moorcock · ar [Ref. R. C. Sherriff]
originally published with unauthorised cuts as an introduction to The Hopkins Manuscript (Sherriff) Persephone, 2003.
1 · Mark David Chapman, Science Fiction Fan · Bob Eldridge · ar
7 · Dear Holly · Michael Bishop · in from In the Palace of Repose, Prime Books, 2005
20 · What This Story Needs Is a Giant Gorilla: Thoughts on the Pleasures of Formula Fiction Occasioned by Reading “The Gray God” by J. Allan Dunn · Darrell Schweitzer · ar [Ref. J. Allan Dunn]
21 · Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions · Adam Roberts · br [Ref. Fredric Jameson]
1 · Why There Is (Almost) No Such Thing as Science Fiction: Some Observations on Rhetoric and Plausibility in Science and Science Fiction · Brian Stableford · ar
1 · Cyberpunk and the New Wave: Ruptures and Continuities · Rob Latham · ar
1 · Take the Third Star on the Left and on til Morning! · Geoff Ryman · ar; a version of this essay was presented at Boréal, in Montreal, 28 April 2007.
1 · A Nettlesome Term That Has Long Outlived Its Welcome · Michael Swanwick · ar
1 · Bicycle Bites Man: Flann O’Brien’s Journey from the Sublime to the Absurd (A Fraudulent Essay of Dubious Scholarly Value, with Spurious Footnotes by an Imaginary Author) · Robert Guffey · ar [Ref. Flann O’Brien]
1 · Hogwarts Proctology Class: Probing the End of Harry Potter · David Langford · ar [Ref. J. K. Rowling]; speech delivered at Sectus 2007 in London on 20 July 2007.