Cowardice in the Classroom • essay by Stanley Schmidt Language Lessons • novelette by Amy Bechtel The Weird Ocean: Doing Oceanography Without Getting All Wet • essay by Richard A. Lovett The Doctrine of Noncontact • shortstory by Catherine Shaffer The Wrong Side of the Planet • novelette by Joe Schembrie Dark-Energy Stars vs. Black Holes • [The Alternate View] • essay by John G. Cramer The Genetics Lecture • [Probability Zero] • shortstory by Harry Turtledove Infinity’s Friend • shortstory by Dave Creek Smiling Faces in Hog Heaven • shortstory by Stephen L. Burns The Time Pit - A Tale of Old Earth • shortstory by Stephen Baxter Zero Tolerance • novelette by Richard A. Lovett Entropy’s Girlfriend • novelette by Robert J. Howe