Introduction / Joe Haldeman -- 1981 and counting / Algis Budrys -- Venice drowned / Kim Stanley Robinson -- The quiet / George Florance-Guthridge -- Going under / Jack Dann -- Johnny Mnemonic / William Gibson -- Films and television-- 1981 / Baird Searles -- Zeke / Timothy Robert Sullivan -- The Saturn game / Poul Anderson -- Disciples / Gardner Dozois -- The quickening / Michael Bishop -- The pusher / John Varley -- Excerpts from The claw of the conciliator / Gene Wolfe -- Two poems / Ken Duffin and Tom Disch -- Appendixes.