CONTENTS Novella "The Summer Isles" by Ian R. MacLeod Novelettes "Taklamakan" by Bruce Sterling "Fall from Grace" by Cory Doctorow "Waiting for the End" by Robert Silverberg "The Wreck of the 'Gladstone'" by Kage Baker Short Stories "Through the Wall to Eggshell Lake" by Danith McPherson "Quantum Commode Theory" by R. Neube "Odd Coupling" by Joe Haldeman "Whiptail" by Robert Reed "Binding Energy" by Daniel Marcus Poetry "Dad Street" by Sara Backer "Recipe for a Planck Sandwich" by W. Gregory Stewart "November" by Wendy Rathbone Departments "Reflections: Dem Bones, Dem Bones" by Robert Silverberg "On the Net: What's New?" by James Patrick Kelly "On Books" by Paul Di Filippo "SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss Asimov's Science Fiction, October/November 1998, Vol. 22, No. 10 (Whole No. 274) Gardner R. Dozois, editor Cover art by Gary L. Freeman