Table of Contents

NEW VIEWS OF THE PAST; Base Eight Arithmetic, Meteors, and Man (J. Gribbin); Science and Creation (P. Anderson); The Long Stern Chase: A Speculative Exercise (R. Cook); Advanced Machining in Ancient Egypt?; (C. Dunn); A Little More Pollution, Please!; (G. Harper); THE UNIVERSE WE LIVE IN; Demythologizing the Black Hole (R. Matzner, et al.); Death Risk (M. Rothman); Hot Rocks and Water (R. Terra); WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED MAN?; Memetics and the Modular Mind (H. Henson); Man's Biological Future (L. de Camp); THE SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE; Xenology: The New Science of Asking Who's Out There?'' (D. Brin); Alien Sex (R. Freitas); COMING SOON; New Communications Technologies and the Developing World (A. Clarke); Huntington's Handle (M. Peeples); Space Tourism: The Door Into the Space Age (P. Collins); Exploring the Asteroids (J. Davis); The Postdiluvian World (S. Gillett); Nanotechnology (C. Peterson & K. Drexler); BEYOND TOMORROW: THE FAR FUTURE; 24th Century Medicine (T. Donaldson); To the Stars!; (G. Woodcock).