This contains: The Barbie Murders by John Varley; View from a Height by Joan D. Vinge; A Hiss of Dragon by Gregory Benford and Marc Laidlaw; The Man Who Had No Idea by Thomas M. Disch; Vermeer's Window by Gordon Eklund; Count the Clock That Tells the Time by Harlan Ellison; Devil You Don't Know by Dean Ing; Death Therapy by James Patrick Kelly; To Bring in the Steel by Donald Kingsbury; Black Glass by Fritz Leiber; The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck by Hilbert Schenck; The Very Slow Time Machine by Ian Watson; Recommended Reading 1978 by Terry Carr; and The Science Fiction Year by Charles N. Brown.