The star stealers / Edmond Hamilton
The Prince of space / Jack Williamson
Enchantress of venus / Leigh Brackett
The swordsmen of Varnis / Clive Jackson
The game of rat and dragon / Cordwainer Smith
Empire star / Samuel R. Delany
Zirn left unguarded, the Jenghik palace in flames, Jon Westerley dead / Robert Sheckley
III: Transitions/redefiners (late 1970s to late 1980s)
Ranks of bronze / David Drake
Weatherman / Lois McMaster Bujold
A gift from the culture / Iain M. Banks
IV: Volunteers: revisionaries (early 1990s)
Orphans of the helix / Dan Simmons
The well wishers / Colin Greenland
Escape route / Peter F. Hamilton
Ms. Midshipwoman Hattington / David Weber
Aurora in four voices / Catherine Asaro
Ring rats / R. Garcia y Robertson
The death of Captain Future / Allen Steele
V: Mixed signals/mixed categories (to the late 1990s)
A worm in the well / Gregory Benford
The survivor / Donald Kingsbury
Fool's errand / Sarah Zettel
The shobies' story / Ursula K. Le Guin
The remoras / Robert Reed
Recording angel / Paul J. McAuley
The great game / Stephen Baxter
Lost sorceress of the silent citadel / Michael Moorcock
Space opera / Michale Kandel
VI: Next wave (twenty-first century)
The movements of her eyes / Scott Westerfeld
Spirey and the queen / Alastair Reynolds
Bear trap / Charles Stross
Guest law / John C. Wright.