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Table of Contents, Volume 3, Number 1

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Table of Contents, Jim Baen's Universe

Volume 3, Number 1, June 2008

Science Fiction Stories

Last Plane to Heaven by Jay Lake

Why There Are No Type-C Civilizations by Marvin Minsky and David Gerrold

Quasi by M. Alan Ford

Ted by Tom Van Natta

Making Alex Frey by Marissa Lingen

Maker of Worlds by Norman Spinrad

One Small Step by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Fantasy Stories

Madame Pompadour's Blade by Tom Purdom

Bella of Ghostsea is Dead by A. S. Fox

A Thread of Silk by Eugie Foster

Classic

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

Serials

Countdown to Armageddon, Episode Five by Edward M. Lerner

Fish Story, Episode Thirteen by Eric Flint, Andrew Dennis and Dave Freer

Introducing Stories

Cacophony of the Spheres by Jeff Haas

Spamdemonium by John Parke Davis

Nonfiction

Cosmic Electricity by James P. Hogan

The Coming Popularity and Power of Luddism by Stephen Euin Cobb

Columns

Remembering Giants by Mike Resnick

The Nature of Transitions by Eric Flint

Scattershot Again by Barry N. Malzberg

What's New In The Future And You, June 2008 by Stephen Euin Cobb

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