Introduction / the Editors -- A man spekith / Richard Wilson -- After the myths went home / Robert Silverberg -- Death by ecstasy / Larry Niven -- One Sunday in Neptune / Alexei Panshin -- For the sake of grace / Suzette Haden Elgin -- Your haploid heart / James Tiptree, Jr. -- Therapy 2000 / Keith Roberts -- Sixth sense / Michael G. Coney -- A boy and his dog / Harlan Ellison -- And so say all of us / Bruce McAllister -- Ship of shadows / Fritz Leiber -- Nine lives / Ursula K. LeGuin -- The big flash / Norman Spinrad.