Green leopard plague / Walter Jon Williams -- Basement magic / Ellen Klages -- Dry bones / William Sanders -- Masters speak : introduction -- Science fiction century / Jack Williamson -- Way it was / Robert Silverberg -- Teaching the art / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Change and okay in all around I see / Brian W. Aldiss -- Then and now / Frederik Pohl -- Voluntary state / Christopher Rowe -- Grand master Anne McCaaffrey : an appreciation / Jody Lynn Nye -- Ship who sang / Anne McCaffrey -- Coming to terms / Eileen Gunn -- Embracing-the-new / Benjamin Rosenbaum -- Excerpt from Paladin of souls / Lois McMaster Bujold -- Zora and the zombie / Andy Duncan -- Film : the year in review / Kathi Maio -- Travels with my cats / Mike Resnick -- Rhysling award winners -- Just distance / Roger Dutcher -- Octavia is lost in the hall of masks / Theodora Goss -- Cookie monster / Vernor Vinge.