13 · Stephen Baxter’s Riding the Rock in Context · Gregory Benford · ar [Ref. Stephen Baxter]
expanded version of introduction to PS Publishing edition.
14 · The Uses of Fantasy, Which Might Also Be Entitled: How to Be a Fantasy Writer in One Easy Lesson (with Numerous Sub-Lessons of No Vast Difficulty) · Darrell Schweitzer · ar
1 · Internalizing the Final Frontier · Candas Jane Dorsey · ar; delivered as a speech at the Conference on Biotechnological and Medical Themes. in Science Fiction in Thessaloniki, Greece, October 2001.
1 · Beyond the Usual Suspects: The Anthology Wave · Ariel Haméon · ar
4 · Read This: Recently Read and Recommended · Stefen Styrsky · ms
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]