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Table of Contents:

• About L. Ron Hubbard - essay by Algis Budrys
• Introduction - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• On Shaping Creativity - essay by Algis Budrys
• Tyson's Turn - novelette by Michael D. Miller
• A Step Into Darkness - novelette by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• Tiger Hunt - novelette by Jor Jennings
• A Writer's Beginnings - essay by Robert Silverberg
• In the Garden - short story by A. J. Mayhew
• Arcadus Arcane - short story by Dennis J. Pimple
• Recalling Cinderella - novelette by Karen Joy Fowler
• The Ebbing - novelette by Leonard Carpenter
• What Are You Doing Here? - essay by Theodore Sturgeon
• The Land of the Leaves - short story by Norma Hutman
• Anthony's Wives - short story by Randell Crump
• The Thing from the Old Seaman's Mouth - short story by Victor L. Rosemund
• Without Wings - short story by L. E. Carroll
• On Science Fiction - essay by Jack Williamson
• Shanidar - novelette by David Zindell
• One Last Dance - short story by Dean Wesley Smith
• Measuring the Light - novelette by Michael Green
• A Way Out - short story by Mary Frances Zambreno
• The Writer's Life and Uniqueness - essay by Roger Zelazny
• About the Artists - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• L. Ron Hubbard: March 13, 1911 - January 24, 1986 - essay by uncredited
• On This Book - essay by Algis Budrys
• Introducing L. Ron Hubbard On Art - essay by Algis Budrys
• Art, More About - (1973) - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• Beast - short story by Jon Gustafson
• In the Smoke - short story by Howard V. Hendrix
• The Book of Time - novella by Camilla Decarnin
• The Old Organ Trail - short story by Bridget McKenna
• Click - novelette by Ray Aldridge
• An Idea That... - essay by Gene Wolfe
• A Sum of Moments - novelette by Laura E. Campbell
• All You Can Eat! - short story by Don Baumgart
• They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships - short story by Marina Fitch
• A Thousand or So Words of Wisdom - essay by Anne McCaffrey
• The Trout - short story by Marianne O. Nielsen
• Redmond - novelette by Kenneth Schulze
• Mudpuppies - novelette by Robert Reed
• The Single Most Important Piece of Advice - essay by Frank Herbert
• Dream in a Bottle - short story by Jerry Meredith and D. E. Smirl
• The Cinderella Caper - novelette by Sansoucy Kathenor
• The Helldivers - novelette by Parris ja Young
• Tell Me a Story - essay by Larry Niven
• Welcome to Freedom - short story by Jay Sullivan

Table of Contents:

• A Growing Thing - essay by Algis Budrys
• Introducing L. Ron Hubbard on Art and Communication - essay by uncredited
• Art and Communication - (1977) - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• Jacob's Ladder - novelette by M. Shayne Bell
• The Language of the Sea - novelette by Carolyn Ives Gilman
• Living in the Jungle - short story by Martha Soukup
• How to Impress an Editor - essay by Frederik Pohl
• The Very Last Party at #13 Mallory Way - novelette by L. E. Carroll
• Monsters - short story by Jean Reitz
• Long Knives - novelette by J. R. Dunn
• A Little of What You Fancy - short story by Mary Catherine McDaniel
• How to Sound Like an Expert - essay by Gregory Benford
• In the Sickbay - novelette by R. V. Branham
• A Day in the Life - short fiction by Christopher Ewart
• Old Mickey Flip Had a Marvelous Ship - novelette by Lori Ann White
• Time and Chance - novelette by Eric M. Heideman
• No Pets - short story by Tawn Stokes
• Building Plausible Futures - essay by Jerry Pournelle
• On My Way to Paradise - novella by Dave Wolverton
• Resonance Ritual - short story by Paula May
• About the Story Illustrators - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Algis Budrys
• Tomorrow's Miracles - (1938) - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• River of Stone - short story by Michael Green
• The Mirror - novelette by Nancy Farmer
• What a Story Is - essay by Algis Budrys
• The Zombie Corps: Nine-Lives Charlie - novelette by Rayson Lorrey
• High Fast Fish - short story by John Moore
• A Winter's Night - novelette by Pat MacEwen
• The Right Kind of Writing Workshop - essay by Orson Scott Card
• The Troublesome Kordae Alliance and How It Was Settled - novelette by Flonet Biltgen
• Growlers - short story by Larry England
• What Do I See in You? - short story by Mary A. Turzillo
• Diving in at Sag Harbor - essay by Tim Powers
• The Gas Man - novella by Richard Urdiales
• The Fruit Picker - short story by Jo Beverley
• Black Sun and Dark Companion - short story by R. Garcia y Robertson
• To the Next Generation - essay by Ramsey Campbell
• 6770: The Cause - short story by Mark D. Haw
• Mother's Day - novelette by Astrid Julian
• Buffalo Dreams - short story by Jane Mailander
• SF Illustration As an Art - essay by Frank Kelly Freas
• Heroic Measures - short story by Paul Edwards
• Old Times There - short story by Dennis E. Minor
• About the Illustrators - essay by Frank Kelly Freas

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Algis Budrys
• Daddy's Girls - short story by K. D. Wentworth
• The Nomalers - novelette by Jamil Nasir
• Blue Shift - novelette by Stephen Baxter
• Just Don't - short fiction by Eolake Stobblehouse
• Circulate - (1935) - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• Rachel's Wedding - novella by Virginia Baker
• The Wallet and Maudie - novelette by Dan'l Danehy-Oakes and Alan Wexelblat
• Dear Mom - short story by Stephen C. Fisher
• A Little Womanly Advice - essay by Marta Randall
• Prosthetic Lady - novella by Paula May
• Despite and Still - novelette by Marc Matz
• A Walk by Moonlight - novelette by Mark Anthony
• Wisdoms & Warnings: Writing SF for Younger Readers - essay by Jane Yolen
• Starbird - novelette by J. Steven York
• A Ghost in the Matrix - novelette by Steve Martindale
• Under Ice - novelette by C. W. Johnson
• The Magic Picture - essay by Hal Clement
• The Disambiguation of Captain Shroud - short story by Gary W. Shockley
• Writing for the Future - essay by Algis Budrys
• Illustrating for the Future - essay by Frank Kelly Freas

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1990) - essay by Algis Budrys
• Kansas City Kitty - (1990) - novelette by Michael L. Scanlon
• Red Eyes - (1990) - novelette by Stephen Milligan
• Winter's Garden - (1990) - short story by Sharon Wahl
• A Foreign Exchange - (1990) - short story by Matthew Wills
• Suspense - (1937) - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• Dancing with Dinosaurs - (1990) - short story by Charles D. Eckert
• Water - (1990) - short story by John W. Randal
• A Branch in the Wind - (1990) - short story by Bruce Holland Rogers
• Riches Like Dust - (1990) - short story by Scot Noel
• Blueprint for Success in Art - (1990) - essay by Alex Schomburg
• Eulogy for Lisa - (1990) - novelette by Jason Shankel
• The Dive - (1990) - novelette by James Verran
• Flutterbyes - (1990) - short story by Jo Etta Ledgerwood
• The Magician - (1990) - novelette by Michael I. Landweber
• Science in Science Fiction - (1990) - essay by Ben Bova
• The Bookman - (1990) - short story by David Ira Cleary
• The Vintager - (1990) - short story by James Gleason Bishop
• Mothers of Chaos - (1990) - short story by Pete D. Manison
• The Children of Crèche - (1990) - novelette by James Alan Gardner
• Why This Book Is - (1990) - essay by Algis Budrys
• The Scholar of the Pear Tree Garden - (1990) - short story by Annis Shepherd
• Under Glass - (1990) - novelette by David F. Carr
• The Illustrators' Contest - (1990) - essay by Frank Kelly Freas

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Algis Budrys
• Georgi - novelette by James C. Glass
• A Plumber's Tale - novelette by Merritt Severson
• Seventeen Short Essays on the Relationship Between Art and Science - short story by Michael C. Berch
• Search for Research - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• Relay - novelette by Michelle L. Levigne
• Hopes and Dreams - short story by Mark Garland
• Pandora's Box 2055 - novelette by David Hast
• My Advice to the Undiscovered - essay by Ray Aldridge
• The Trashman of Auschwitz - novelette by Barry H. Reynolds
• The Cab Driver from Hell in the Land of the Pioux Hawques - novelette by Allen J. M. Smith
• The Difference - essay by Frank Frazetta
• Yarena's Daughter - novelette by Terri Trimble
• You, Yourself, Are a Delight, and It Is Only Your Work That Is Overwrought or Lacking in Affect or Clichéd or Drearily Jejune - essay by Karen Joy Fowler
• Sensations of the Mind - novelette by Valerie J. Freireich
• The Raid on the Golden Horn - short story by Don Satterlee
• It Is Just Good Business - essay by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith
• A Plea for Mercy - novelette by Öjvind Bernander
• Balanced Ecology - novelette by William Esrac
• Writing and Selling Your First Novel - essay by Dave Wolverton
• An Exultation of Tears - novelette by Ross Westergaard
• Crow's Curse - novelette by Michael H. Payne
• Why We're Glad to Be Here - essay by Algis Budrys
• A Note from Frank Kelly-Freas - essay by Frank Kelly Freas

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Dave Wolverton
• The Last Indian War - novelette by Brian Burt
• The Winterberry - short story by Nicholas A. DiChario
• Boos and Taboos - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• Bringing Sissy Home - novelette by Astrid Julian
• Winter Night, with Kittens - short story by Sam Wilson
• Invisible Man - short story by Larry Ferrill
• Naming Characters and Why - essay by Algis Budrys
• Surrogate - short story by Mark Sumner
• The Coat of Many Colors - short story by Christine Beckert
• Timepieces - novelette by Mike E. Swope
• Notes to the New Artist - essay by Edd Cartier
• Anne of a Thousand Years - novelette by Michael Paul Meltzer
• Subterranean Pests - short story by James S. Dorr
• Getting Started - essay by Lois McMaster Bujold
• A Cold Fragrant Air - short story by C. Maria Plieger
• Blueblood - novelette by Bronwyn Elko
• Not Simply Blue - novelette by Gene Bostwick
• Write from the Heart - essay by R. Garcia y Robertson
• Scary Monsters - novelette by Stephen Woodworth
• Pale Marionettes - novelette by Mark Budz
• Running Rings Around the Moon - short story by Kevin Kirk
• The Augmented Man - novelette by Wendy Rathbone
• More Than a Contest - essay by Dave Wolverton
• A Note from Frank Kelly-Freas - essay by Frank Kelly Freas

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Algis Budrys
• Blade of the Bunny - novelette by Jim C. Hines
• Art vs. Eats - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• A Man More Ordinary - short story by Manfred Gabriel
• Bearing the Pattern - novelette by G. Scott Huggins
• The One-Eyed Man - novelette by Gregory Janks
• Dream the Dream - essay by Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon
• The Unbound - novella by Nicole Montgomery
• Out of the Blue - novelette by Ron Collins
• By Other Windings - novelette by Franklin Thatcher
• How I've Been Passing the Time Until Waiting Is Filled - essay by K. D. Wentworth
• My Son, My Self - novelette by Amy Sterling Casil
• The Price of Tea in China - novelette by David Wesley Hill
• The Great Wizard Joey - novella by W. G. Rowland
• Holding Bogart's Fort - essay by Tim Powers
• Great White Hunter - novelette by Don Solosan
• The Vampire Shortstop - novelette by Scott Nicholson
• Fifteen Years of L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future - essay by Algis Budrys

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Algis Budrys
• Home Grown - short story by William Brown
• Like Iron Unicorns - novelette by Paul Batteiger
• Atlantis, Ohio - novella by Mark Siegel
• Search for Research - (1991) - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• A Conversation with Schliegelman - novelette by Dan Barlow
• In Orbite Medievali - novelette by Tobias S. Buckell
• Guildmaster - novella by Dan Dyson
• An Essay on Art - essay by Judith Holman
• Skin Song - short story by Melissa Yuan-Innes
• As the Crow Flies - short story by Leslie Claire Walker
• Mud and Salt - short story by Michael Jasper
• The Basic Basics of Writing - essay by Algis Budrys
• The Quality of Wetness - novella by Ilsa J. Bick
• Your Own Hope - novelette by Paul E. Martens
• Pulling Up Roots - novelette by Gary Murphy
• Fame? Fortune? Chocolate? - essay by Michael H. Payne
• Daimon! Daimon! - novella by Jeff Rutherford
• L. Ron Hubbard's Writers and Illustrators of the Future - essay by Algis Budrys
• Contest Information - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Algis Budrys
• Black Box - short story by Janet Barron
• A Familiar Solution - short story by Marguerite Devers Green
• The Plague - novelette by A. C. Bray
• Boos and Taboos - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• El Presidente Munsie - novelette by Tony Daley
• Time Out of Mind - novelette by Everett S. Jacobs
• Brother Jubal in the Womb of Silence - novelette by Tim Myers
• The Sharp End - novelette by Kelly McCullough
• The Writer's Life and Uniqueness - (1985) - essay by Roger Zelazny
• Lucretia's Nose - short story by Philip Lees
• Dreams and Bones - short story by Eric M. Witchey
• Marketplace of Souls - short story by David Lowe
• Interrupt Vector - short story by Robert B. Schofield
• Getting "Lucky" - essay by Sergey Poyarkov
• Ten Gallons a Whore - novelette by Anna D. Allen
• Magpie - novelette by Meredith Simmons
• God Loves the Infantry - novella by Greg Siewert
• Hello and Goodbye - novelette by Michele Letica
• T.E.A. and Koumiss - novelette by Steven C. Raine
• An Idiot Rode to Majra - novelette by J. Simon
• Life Eternal - short story by Bob Johnston
• The Year in the Contests - essay by Algis Budrys
• Contest Information - essay by Algis Budrys

Table of Contents:

• The Dragon Cave - short story by Drew Morby
• The Haunted Seed - short story by Ray Roberts
• Rewind - short story by David D. Levine
• Windseekers - short story by Nnedi Okorafor
• Magic Out of a Hat - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• Lost on the Road - short story by Ari Goelman
• Graveyard Tea - short story by Susan Fry
• Carrying the God - short story by Lee Battersby
• A Few Tips on the Craft of Illustration - essay by H. R. Van Dongen
• Memoria Technica - short story by Leon J. West
• Free Fall - short story by Tom Brennan
• All Winter Long - short story by Jae Brim
• The Art of Creation - short story by Carl Frederick
• Advice to the New Writer - essay by Andre Norton
• The Road to Levenshir - novelette by Patrick Rothfuss
• Eating, Drinking, Walking - short story by Dylan Otto Krider
• Origami Cranes - short story by Seppo Kurki
• A New Anthology - essay by Tim Powers
• Worlds Apart - short story by Woody O. Carsky-Wilson
• Prague 47 - short story by Joel Best
• What Became of the King - short story by Aimee C. Amodio
• The Year in Contests - essay by Algis Budrys

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Algis Budrys
• Numbers - short story by Joel Best
• Trust Is a Child - short story by Matthew Candelaria
• A Boy and His Bicycle - novelette by Carl Frederick
• Suspense - (1937) - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• A Few Days North of Vienna - novella by Brandon Butler
• A Ship That Bends - short story by Luc Reid
• Bury My Heart at the Garrick - novella by Steven Savile
• A Silky Touch to No Man - novella by Robert J Defendi
• To the Illustrators of the Future - essay by Will Eisner
• Dark Harvest - novelette by Geoffrey Girard
• From All the Work Which He Had Made... - novelette by Michael Chruchman
• Beautiful Singer - novella by Steve Bein
• Gossamer - novelette by Ken Liu
• Ten Years After - essay by Sean Williams
• Walking Rain - novelette by Ian Keane
• Blood and Horses - short story by Myke Cole
• Into the Gardens of Sweet Night - novella by Jay Lake
• The Year in the Contests - essay by Algis Budrys
• Contest Information - essay by Algis Budrys

Table of Contents:

• The Nature of Creativity - essay by Algis Budrys
• On Our Twentieth Anniversary - essay by William J. Widder
• Monkey See, Monkey Deduce - short story by Jonathan Laden
• Bottomless - novelette by Luc Reid
• Art, More About - (1973) - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• Flotsam - novelette by Bradley P. Beaulieu
• Kinship - novelette by Jason Stoddard
• In Memory - short story by Eric James Stone
• On the Writing of Speculative Fiction - (1947) - essay by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Key - novella by Blair MacGregor
• Cancilleri's Law - short story by Gabriel F. W. Koch
• Sleep Sweetly, Junie Carter - novelette by Joy Marchand
• Twenty Years! - essay by Robert Silverberg
• Conversation with a Mechanical Horse - novelette by Floris M. Kleijne
• Weapons of the Lord Are Not Carnal - novelette by Andrew Tisbert
• Sunrunners - novella by Matthew Champine
• State of the Art - essay by Vincent Di Fate
• Shipwoman - novelette by Roxanne Hutton
• Last Days of the Mahdi - novelette by Tom Pendergrass
• Asleep in the Forest of the Tall Cats - short story by Kenneth Brady
• False Summits - essay by Kevin J. Anderson
• The Plastic Soul of a Note - novelette by William T. Katz
• The Year in the Contests - essay by Algis Budrys
• Contest Information - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• In the Flue - short story by John Schoffstall
• Needle Child - novelette by M. T. Reiten
• The Story of His Life - novelette by David W. Goldman
• Introducing "Tomorrow's Miracles" - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• Green Angel - short story by Sean A. Tinsley
• The Firebird - short story by Andrew Gudgel
• My Daughter, the Martian - novelette by Sidra M. S. Vitale
• Meeting the Sculptor - novelette by Floris M. Kleijne (trans. of Ontmoeting met Vormgever 2013)
• Seven Keys to Writing Success - essay by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• Into the Blank Where Life is Hurled - short story by Ken Scholes
• Mars Hath No Fury Like a Pixel Double-Crossed - novelette by Stephen R. Stanley
• Blackberry Witch - novella by Scott M. Roberts
• Style Points - essay by Stephen Hickman
• Betrayer of Trees - novelette by Eric James Stone
• Deadglass - short story by Lon Prater
• Last Dance at the Sergeant Majors' Ball - (2004) - short story by Cat Sparks
• Annus Mirabilis - short story by Mike Rimar
• The Keeper Alone - novella by Michael Livingston
• The Year in the Contests - essay by Algis Budrys

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Algis Budrys
• The Sword from the Sea - short fiction by Blake Hutchins
• Broken Stones - short fiction by Judith Tabron
• Advice to the Word-Weary - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• Games on the Children's Ward - short fiction by Michail Velichansky
• Evolution's End - short fiction by Lee Beavington
• The Red Envelope - short story by David Sakmyster
• Art Is a Journey - essay by Bob Eggleton
• Schroedinger's Hummingbird - short story by Diana Rowland
• On the Mount - short fiction by David John Baker
• Eight Things New Writers Need to Know - essay by Robert J. Sawyer
• Life on the Voodoo Driving Range - short story by Brandon Sigrist
• At the Gate of God - short fiction by Joseph Jordan
• Are We at the End of Science Fiction? - essay by Orson Scott Card
• Balancer - short story by Richard Kerslake
• The Bone Fisher's Apprentice - short story by Sarah Totton
• Tongues - short fiction by Brian Rappatta
• The Year in the Contests - essay by Algis Budrys
• Contest Information - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2007) - essay by Algis Budrys
• Primetime - (2007) - novelette by Douglas Texter
• The Sun God at Dawn, Rising from a Lotus Blossom - (2007) - novelette by Andrea Kail
• The Frozen Sky - (2007) - novella by Jeff Carlson
• Art and Communication - (1977) - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• The Stone Cipher - (2007) - novella by Tony Pi
• Obsidian Shards - (2007) - novelette by Aliette de Bodard
• Ripping Carovella - (2007) - novelette by K. J. Zimring
• If Only I Had the Time - (2007) - essay by Kevin J. Anderson
• Our Last Words - (2007) - novelette by Damon Kaswell
• Saturn in G Minor - (2007) - short story by Stephen Kotowych
• By the Waters of the Ganga - (2007) - novelette by Stephen Gaskell
• Pilgrimage - (2007) - novelette by Karl Bunker
• Here's the Thing - (2007) - essay by Judith Miller
• The Gas Drinkers - (2007) - novelette by Edward Sevcik
• The Phlogiston Age - (2007) - novella by Corey Brown
• Mask Glass Magic - (2007) - novella by John Burridge
• The Year in the Contests - (2007) - essay by Algis Budrys
• Contest Information - (2007) - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Why There Are the Contests by Algis Budrys (1931-2008) - essay by uncredited
• Why There Are the Contests - essay by Algis Budrys
• A Man in the Moon - short fiction by Philip Edward Kaldon
• Bitter Dreams - novelette by Ian McHugh
• Taking a Mile - short fiction by J. Kathleen Cheney
• Circulate - (1935) - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• Crown of Thorns - short fiction by Sonia Helbig
• Hangar Queen - short fiction by Patrick Lundrigan
• Snakes and Ladders - short fiction by Paula R. Stiles
• The Well-Adjusted Writer - essay by Rebecca Moesta
• Epiphany - short fiction by Laura Bradley Rede
• Cruciger - short fiction by Erin Cashier
• Circuit - short fiction by J. D. EveryHope
• A War Bird in the Belly of the Mouse - short fiction by David Parish-Whittaker
• The Four C's to Success - essay by Cliff Nielsen
• Simulacrum's Children - short fiction by Sarah L. Edwards
• The Bird Reader's Granddaughter - short fiction by Kim A. Gillett
• The Girl Who Whispered Beauty - short fiction by Al Bogdan
• The Year in the Contests - essay by Algis Budrys