1: Kommentar: Introduction (John Joseph Adams)
3: Snow, Glass, Apples (Neil Gaiman)
13: The Master of Rampling Gate (Anne Rice)
33: Under St. Peter's (Harry Turtledove)
45: Child of an Ancient City (Tad Williams)
75: Lifeblood (Michael A. Burstein)
88: Endless Night (Barbara Roden)
106: Infestation (Garth Nix)
120: Life Is the Teacher (Carrie Vaughn)
134: The Vechi Barbat (Nancy Kilpatrick)
148: The Beautiful, The Damned (Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
161: Pinecones (David Willington)
165: Do Not Hasten to Bid Me Adieu (Norman Partridge)
180: Foxtrot at High Noon [russisch: Полуденный фокстрот] (Sergej Lukianenko als Sergei Lukyanenko) [Michael M. Naydan & Slava I. Yastremski]
189: This Is Now (Michael Marshall Smith)
199: Blood Gothic (Nancy Holder)
204: Mama Gone (Jane Yolen)
209: Abraham's Boys (Joe Hill)
224: Nunc Dimittis (Tanith Lee)
240: Hunger (Gabriela Lee)
250: Ode ot Edvard Munch (Caitlín R. Kiernan)
256: Finders Keepers (L. A. Banks)
275: After the Stone Age (Brian M. Stableford als Brian Stableford)
286: Much at Stake (Kevin J. Anderson)
297: House of the Rising Sun (Elizabeth Bear)
302: A Standup Dame (Lilith Saintcrow)
316: Twilight (Kelley Armstrong)
333: In Darkness, Angels (Eric van Lustbader)
355: Sunrise on Running Water (Barbara Hambly)
372: Hit (Bruce McAllister)
385: Undead Again (Ken MacLeod)
388: Peking Man (Robert J. Sawyer)
396: Necros (Brian Lumley)
409: Exsanguinations (Catherynne M. Valente)
415: Lucy, in Her Speldor (Charles Coleman Finlay)
426: The Wide, Carnivorous Sky (John Langan)
464: One for the Road (Stephen King)
477: Abschnitt: For Further Reading (Ross E. Lockhart)
490: Abschnitt: John Joseph Adams
7: Kommentar: Einführung: Was ist (die) Matrix... und weshalb ist der Film so wichtig? [englisch: Introduction] (Pat Cadigan)
12: Essay: Jeder andere Film ist die blaue Kapsel [englisch: Every Other Movie is the Blue Pill] (Bruce Sterling)
52: Essay: Die Kunst ahmt das Leben nach (jawohl, das ist eine Neuigkeit!) [englisch: Art Imitates Life (Yes, It’s News)] (Darrel Anderson)
60: Essay: Der Bau eines nesseren Simulakrums: Literarische Einflüsse auf Matrix [englisch: Literary Influences on the Matrix] (Paul di Filippo)
81: Essay: Mehr als man jemals erfahren wird: Im Kaninchenbau von Matrix [englisch: More Than You’ll Ever Know: Down the Rabbit Hole of the Matrix] (Kathleen Ann Goonan)
93: Essay: Die Matrix und der Sternenschöpfer [englisch: The Matrix and the Star Maker] (Mike Resnick)
100: Essay: Yuen Woo-Ping und die Kunst des Fliegens [englisch: Yuen Woo-Ping and the Art of Flying] (Walter Jon Williams)
112: Essay: Alice in Metropolis oder: Es wird alles mit Spiegeln gemacht [englisch: Alice in Metropolis or It’s All Done With Mirrors] (Dean Motter)
171: Essay: Die Rache der Unterdrückten, Teil 10 [englisch: Revenge of the Nerds, Part X] (Alan Dean Foster)
181: Essay: Spiegelbild im Cyber-Auge [englisch: Reflections in a Cyber Eye]
189: Essay: Betrachtungen über die singuläre Matrix [englisch: Meditations on the Singular Matrix] (James Patrick Kelly)
229: Abschnitt: Über die Autoren [englisch: About the Authors]
237: Abschnitt: Lesetipps
i: Kommentar: Foreword
iv: Kommentar: Horseman, Pass By (Trent Zelazny)
vii: Abschnitt: Part I: Sword & Sorcery
1: The Edge of Magic (Henry Szabranski)
19: Annual Dues (Ken Scholes)
27: The Kitsune's Nine Tales (Kelley Armstrong)
37: Elroy Wooden Sword (S. C. Hayden)
51: In the Lost Lands (George R. R. Martin)
67: Worms Rising From the Dirt (David Farland)
75: Snow Wolf and Evening Wolf (James Enge)
87: Knight's Errand (Jane Lindskold)
101: Abschnitt: Part II: Fairy Tales
103: Languid in Rose (Frances Silversmith)
115: Green They Were, and Golden-Eyed (Alan Dean Foster)
123: Golden (Todd McCaffrey)
133: Mountain Spirit (Piers Anthony)
143: Moon Glass (Megan Moore)
149: The George Business (Roger Zelazny)
157: Abschnitt: Part III: Paranormal
159: Only the End of the World Again (Neil Gaiman)
175: Lenora of the Low (Marina J. Lostetter)
187: Trufan Fever (Katharine Kerr)
197: Undying Love (Jackie Kessler)
213: Abschnitt: Part IV: Urban Fantasy
215: Dancing With the Mouse King (Carrie Vaughn)
231: Showlogo (Nnedi Okorafor)
243: The Bluest Hour (Jaye Wells)
257: Pandal Food (Samit Basu)
275: Man of Water (Kyle Aisteach)
283: Abschnitt: Part V: Weird Fantasy
285: Bones of a Righteous Man (Michael Ezell)
303: Time's Mistress (Steven Savile)
319: Little Pig, Berry Brown and the Hard Moon (Jay Lake)
329: The Grenade Garden (Michael Moorcock)
339: Sand and Teeth (Carmen Tudor)
347: The Seas of Heaven (David Parish-Whittaker)
357: Abschnitt: Colon Cancer - Signs and Warnings
358: Abschnitt: About the Editors
5: Abschnitt: Permissions
9: Kommentar: Introduction (John Joseph Adams)
36: Carthago Delenda Est (Genevieve Valentine)
49: Life-Suspension (L. E. Modesitt Jr.)
66: Terra-Exulta (S. L. Gilbow)
76: Aftermaths (Lois McMaster Bujold)
88: Someone Is Stealing the Great Throne Rooms of the Galaxy (Harry Turtledove)
119: Different Day (K. Tempest Bradford)
123: Twilight of the Gods (John C. Wright)
154: Swanwatch (Yoon Ha Lee)
165: Spirey and the Queen (Alastair Reynolds)
197: Pardon Our Conquest (Alan Dean Foster)
208: Symbiont (Robert Silverberg)
269: My She (Mary Rosenblum)
285: The Shoulders of Giants (Robert J. Sawyer)
302: The Culture Archivist (Jeremiah Tolbert)
318: The Other Side of Jordan (Allen M. Steele)
332: Like They Always Been Free (Georgina Li)
336: Eskhara (Trent Hergenrader)
351: The One with the Interstellar Group Consciousnesses (James Alan Gardner)
367: Golubash, or Wine-Blood-War-Elegy (Catherynne M. Valente)
1: Kommentar: Introduction: The Business of Lying
5: Shuteye For The Timebroker (Paul di Filippo)
32: Looking Through Mother's Eyes (John Meaney)
45: The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alan Dean Foster)
55: The Engines of Arcadia (Sean McMullen)
72: The Pearl Driver (Caitlín R. Kiernan)
109: Man You Gotta Go (Adam Roberts)
137: Homosexuals Damned, Film at Eleven (Alex Irvine)
149: Contagion (Chris Roberson)
168: Absalom's Mother (Louise Marley)
189: Job Qualifications (Kevin J. Anderson)
199: The Teosinte War (Paul Melko)
222: Slip (Robert A. Metzger)
240: All's Well At World's End (Howard V. Hendrix)
256: Flashes (Robert J. Sawyer)
272: The Cartesian Theater (Robert Charles Wilson)
1: The Silver King and the Jade Egg (Nicole L. Soper Gorden)
15: The Reflection of Daria Black (Michaelbrent Collings)
33: Blood Forest (Gama Ray Martinez)
47: Coming Out (Kenzie Lappin)
57: Memories Upon the Emerald Sea (Samuel Fleming)
65: Skin Deep (Arlen Feldman)
77: Love My Neighbor (Laura VanArendonk Baugh)
91: War Painting (Elise Stephens)
105: The Mimic and the Many Mirrors (J. D. Langert als JD Langert)
111: Sea Glass (Rachel Murtagh)
119: Among the Cannibals (Alan Dean Foster)
135: Reflected Image (Jonathan Maberry)
157: The Reflector (E. W. Barnes)
173: Mirror Seeker (Rose Strickman)
187: Jarjacha Engaño (Sam Knight)
199: Tips For a Baby Witch (Kristen S. Walker)
203: Gedicht: The Brothers Three (Aaron Ozment)
213: Slivers (Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
231: The Semicentennial Woman (Anaïd Haen)
247: Tangled Up In Contusive Blue (Brian Rappatta)
273: Everyday Things (Sylvia Stopforth)
291: The Vessel of the Nameless Goddess (Soon Jones)
309: Writing Until the End (Robert J. McCarter)
326: Abschnitt: Copyright Information
327: Abschnitt: Acknowledgments
328: Abschnitt: If you liked Gilded Glass
1: Kommentar: Introduction (Kevin J. Anderson)
5: Rhubarb and Beets (Todd McCaffrey als Todd J. McCaffrey)
13: Purple is the New Black (Jody Lynn Nye)
33: A Single Spark (Mary Pletsch)
49: Best of All Possible Worlds (John D. Payne)
61: Korgak's Daily Schedule (Jeanette Gonzalez)
67: Dead Friends and New Horses (Sharon Dodge)
83: The Godfairy (Quincy J. Allen)
103: The Faerie Journal (Megan Grey)
119: The Greggs Family Zoo of Odd and Marvelous Creatures (Kristin Luna)
137: Menagerie Violette (Colette Black)
149: The Unicorn Prince (Gama Ray Martinez)
161: The Girl with the Artist's Eyes (Nathan Barra)
181: Conner Bright and the Case of the Purple Unicorn (Robert J. McCarter)
201: My Hero (Mark Ryan)
229: Gateway Blood (Ezekiel James Boston)
233: The Monoceros (Lou J. Berger)
247: The Last Dregs of Winter (Scott Eder)
263: Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros (Peter S. Beagle)
285: Red Roses (Todd McCaffrey als Todd J. McCaffrey)
295: Abschnitt: About the Authors
301: Abschnitt: Additional Copyright Info
vii: Kommentar: Introduction (Kerrie Hughes als Kerrie L. Hughes)
1: Cold Case (Jim Butcher)
55: Sleepover (Seanan McGuire)
79: If Wishes Were (Tanya Huff)
109: Solus (Anton Strout)
139: Peacock In Hell (Kat Richardson)
167: Eye Of Newt (Kevin J. Anderson)
193: What Dwells Within (Lucy A. Snyder)
221: Hunter, Healer (Jim C. Hines)
243: Baggage (Erik Scott de Bie)
273: Sales. Force. (Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
297: Impossible Monsters (Rob Thurman)
331: Abschnitt: About the Authirs
337: Abschnitt: About the Editors
7: Kommentar: Introduction (John Gregory Betancourt)
9: Leftovers (Alan Dean Foster)
15: The Mission, at T-Prime (Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
23: His Two Wars (Pamela Sargent)
41: The (Chelsea Quinn Yarbro)
65: The Interrogator (Darrell Schweitzer)
75: "According to a Reliable Source..." (Allen M. Steele)
89: Cold Storage (Kevin J. Anderson)
103: Good As Dead (Nina Kiriki Hoffman)
115: The Horror on the Superyacht (Mark McLaughlin)
129: Apollyon (G. D. Falksen)
163: The Monster at World's End (Allan Cole)
203: Thingmaker (Paul Di Filippo)
214: The Nature of the Beast (John Gregory Betancourt)
ix: Kommentar: Foreword (David Boop)
1: Bubba Shackleford's Professional Monster Killers (Larry Correia)
23: Trouble in an Hourglass (Jody Lynn Nye)
37: The Buffalo Hunters (Sam Knight)
51: The Sixth World (Robert E. Vardeman)
67: Easy Money (Phil Foglio)
73: The Wicked Wild (Nicole Givens Kurtz)
87: Chance Corrigan and the Lord of the Underworld (Michael A. Stackpole)
121: Dance of Bones (Maurice Broaddus)
137: Dry Gulch Dragon (Sarah A. Hoyt)
151: The Treefold Problem (Alan Dean Foster)
169: Fountains of Blood (David Lee Summers)
183: High Midnight (Kevin J. Anderson)
199: Coyote (Naomi Brett Rourke)
209: The Key (Peter J. Wacks)
227: A Fistful of Warlocks (Jim Butcher)
251: Abschnitt: Biographies
7: Kommentar: Foreword (Kim Newman)
11: Kommentar: Introduction (S. T. Joshi)
17: 20,000 Years Under the Sea (Kevin J. Anderson)
33: Tsathoggua's Breath (Brian M. Stableford als Brian Stableford)
49: The Door Beneath (Alan Dean Foster)
65: Dead Man Walking (William F. Nolan)
83: A Crazy Mistake (Nancy Kilpatrick)
99: The Anatomy Lesson (Cody Goodfellow)
121: The Hollow Sky (Jason C. Eckhardt)
151: The Last Ones (Mark Howard Jones)
171: A Footnote in the Black Budget (Jonathan Maberry)
197: Deep Fracture (Steve Rasnic Tem)
209: The Dream Stones (Donald Tyson)
233: The Blood in My Mouth (Laird Barron)
255: On the Shores of Destruction (Karen Haber)
293: Abschnitt: Notes on Contributors
1: Kommentar: Introduction (Mike Resnick)
3: The Robot Who Came to Dinner (Ron Goulart)
27: Aliens Ate My Pickup (Mercedes Lackey)
35: Correspondence with a Breeder (Janis Ian)
49: Fairy Tale (Jack Dann)
77: How to Write a Scientific Paper (Gregory Benford)
83: Frog Kiss (Kevin J. Anderson)
93: The Acid Test (Kay Kenyon)
103: Airborne All the Way! (David Drake)
117: We Three Kings (Alan Dean Foster)
131: Nord's Gambit (Tobias S. Buckell)
145: A Sword Called Rhonda (D. S. Moen)
167: A Soldier's Complaint (Eric Flint)
175: He Loved Lucy (Terry Bisson)
193: The Frog Prince (Linda J. Dunn)
201: In Search of the Perfect Orgasm (Dean Wesley Smith)
207: Elvis Died for Your Sins (Sarah A. Hoyt)
219: The Angst, I Kid You Not, of God (Michael Bishop)
233: Monster Radio (Chris Roberson)
241: Apecon (Barbara Delaplace)
257: On the High Frontier (Michael F. Flynn)
283: The Day the Martels Got the Cable (Pat Cadigan)
295: Request for Proposal (Anthony R. Lewis)
309: Small in the Saddle (Louise Marley)
325: Ram Shift Phase 2 (Greg Bear)
331: Invasion of the Jack Benny Snatchers (John Gregory Betancourt)
341: The Santa Claus Planet (Frank M. Robinson)
367: Breeding Maze (Larry Niven)
397: Catastrophe Baker and the Cold Equations (Mike Resnick)
1: Kommentar: Foreword (Alex Shvartsman)
3: On The Efficacy Of Supervillain Battles In Eliciting Therapeutic Breakthroughs (Jim C. Hines)
19: The Right Answer (James A. Miller)
29: The Gefilte Fish Girl (Mike Resnick)
39: Mast Of Business Apocalypse (Jakob Drud)
53: Carla At The Off-Planet Tax Return Helpline (Caroline M. Yoachim)
59: Why I Bought Satan Two Cokes On The Day I Graduated High School (Nathaniel Lee)
79: Company Store (Robert Silverberg)
97: The Door-To-Door Salesthing From Planet X (Josh Vogt)
101: Picture Perfect (Matt Mikalatos)
117: The Discounted Seniors (James Beamon)
131: The Must Be Them Now (Karen Haber)
149: Notes To My Past And/Or Alternate Selves (Sarah Pinsker)
153: The Real And The Really Real (Tim Pratt)
163: Into The Woods, With Zombunny (Camille Griep)
179: Live At The Scene (Gini Koch)
191: The Newsboy's Last Stand (Krystal Claxton)
201: The Full Lazenby (Jeremy Butler)
213: Do Not Remove This Tag (Piers Anthony)
227: Super-Baby-Moms Group Saves The Day! (Tina Connolly)
245: The Choochoomorphosis (Oliver Buckram)
259: Elections At Villa Encantada (Cat Rambo)
275: Infinite Drive (Jody Lynn Nye)
303: Abschnitt: About the Editor
303: Abschnitt: Acknowledgments
1: Under The Plains Of Rust (John Shirley)
38: The Steel Princess (Alan Dean Foster)
74: The Foundling (Mike Resnick)
309: To Chaos And Back Again (Jody Lynn Nye)
343: The Decaying Mansions Of Memory (Jay Lake)