Publisher’s Note: Extraordinary Voyages
By Will Hearst
Reading and Writing California
By John Freeman • Illustration by Victor Juhasz
Poetry: “Note for Daughters” • “To the Woman Who Said She Could Hear My Accent”
By Sara Borjas
A Mother’s Road
By Mary Melton
I See a Three-Legged Frog…
By Geoffrey Gray
Survivor Manuals
By Daniel Wallace and William Deverell
Buster Keaton’s Last Stand
By Julian Smith
Islands in the Land
By Will Self
Special Section: Science Fiction
Introduction: First Drafts of the Future
By David L. Ulin
Looking Backward From The Future
By David L. Ulin
“Beyond the Door”
By Philip K. Dick
“I Am Trying to Describe Things I Don’t Understand”
By Jonathan Lethem
“The Turnaround”
By Charlie Jane Anders
Against Apocalypse
By Annalee Newitz
When Worlds Collide
By Steve Erickson
The Illustrated Illustrated Man
By Kimi Eisele
Dear Inga, Love Jack
By Geoffrey Gray
Joanne Kyger and the Making of a Poem
By Matthew Zapruder
A Concordance of Stories
By Alex Espinoza
Robert Frost Was a San Francisco Kid
By Robert Roper • Illustrations by Steve Carroll
The Anonymous Bard
By Marcela Davison Avilés
The Collector Had a Good Eye
By Alfred C. Harrison Jr.
A Film Critic Takes Direction
By Peter Rainer
Poetry: “Summons” • “Bat Boy” • “Imagines*”
By D.A. Powell
The Daredevil Who Reached for the Stars
By Justin Chapman
Crossword: Where We’re From
By David Kipen
