Contents ix • Write Like Dozois? I Can't Even Say His Name • essay by Michael Bishop xiv • How Did They Do That? • essay by Pat Cadigan Endsheet Art (Slow Dancing Through Time) • interior artwork by Tim Kirk Slow Dancing Through Time (frontispiece) • interior artwork by Don Ivan Punchatz 1 • Collaborating • essay by Gardner Dozois 5 • Touring • (1981) • novelette by Michael Swanwick and Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann 22 • Afterword to Touring • essay by Gardner Dozois 25 • The Gods of Mars • (1985) • novelette by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick 45 • Afterword to The Gods of Mars • essay by Gardner Dozois 47 • Slow Dancing With Jesus • (1983) • shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann 51 • Afterword to Slow Dancing With Jesus • essay by Gardner Dozois 54 • It Doesn't Get Any Better • essay by Michael Swanwick 61 • Executive Clemency • (1981) • shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Jack C. Haldeman, II 76 • Afterword to Executive Clemency • essay by Gardner Dozois 79 • Afternoon at Schrafft's • (1984) • shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick 86 • Afterword to Afternoon at Schrafft's • essay by Gardner Dozois 89 • A Change in the Weather • (1981) • shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann 92 • Afterword to A Change in the Weather • essay by Gardner Dozois 93 • Time Bride • (1983) • novelette by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann 115 • Afterword to Time Bride • essay by Gardner Dozois 117 • Guilford Gafia Revisited • essay by Jack C. Haldeman, II 123 • Snow Job • (1985) • shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick 139 • Afterword to Snow Job • essay by Gardner Dozois 141 • Send No Money • (1985) • shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Susan Casper 151 • Afterword to Send No Money • essay by Gardner Dozois 153 • Playing the Game • (1982) • shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann 159 • Afterword to Playing the Game • essay by Gardner Dozois 161 • New Kind on the Block • essay by Susan Casper 165 • The Stray • (1987) • shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Susan Casper 172 • Afterword to The Stray • essay by Gardner Dozois 173 • The Clowns • (1985) • shortstory by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois and Susan Casper 196 • Afterword to The Clowns • essay by Gardner Dozois 199 • Golden Apples of the Sun • (1984) • novelette by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick 215 • Afterword to Golden Apples of the Sun • essay by Gardner Dozois 217 • Running Wild • essay by Jack Dann 223 • Down Among the Dead Men • (1982) • novelette by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann 247 • Afterword to Down Among the Dead Men • essay by Gardner Dozois 249 • Afterword (Slow Dancing Through Time) • essay by Gardner Dozois