CONTENTS Novella "Living Trust" by L. Timmel Duchamp Novelettes "Cabbages and Kales, or, How We Downsized North America" by David Marusek "Mac and Me" by Robert Reed "Fossil Games" by Tom Purdom Short Stories "The Night Copernicus Died" by Kathryn Kulpa "Ancient Engines" by Michael Swanwick Poetry "The Watchers" by Wendy Rathbone Departments "Reflections: End of the World Cancelled" by Robert Silverberg "Letters" "On Books" by Paul Di Filippo "SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1999, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Whole No. 277) Gardner R. Dozois, editor Cover art by Kim Poor