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Table of Contents, Volume 2, Number 5, Feb 2008

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Jim Baen's Universe, Volume 2, Number 5

Science Fiction Stories:

The Smartest Mob by David Brin

Premature Emergence by Eric James Stone

Waking Ophelia by E. Catherine Tobler

Spiderweb by David Gerold

Fantasy Stories:

The Temple of Thorns by John Lambshead

Hourglass by Alma Alexander

Sluggo by Mike Resnick

Serials:

Countdown to Armageddon, Episode Three by Edward M. Lerner

The Ancient Ones, Episode Five by David Brin

Fish Story, Episode Eleven, The End of Mankind by Dave Freer, Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis

Introducing Stories:

End of the Line by Holly Messinger

Classic:

Unprofessional by Rudyard Kipling

Nonfiction:

Becoming Stewards of Our World, The Great Theme of the 21st Century, Part One by Gregory Benford

What I've Learned Interviewing Futurists by Stephen Euin Cobb

Columns:

Television Has a Lot to Answer For by Mike Resnick

The Literature of Fandom by Mike Resnick

Substantial Fire, or Why This Column Almost Didn't Appear by Barry N. Malzberg

What's New in The Future And You, February 2008 by Stephen Euin Cobb

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