Morrow notes that many of the Nebula finalists grapple with the question Is science good or bad? Lending weight to this debate are all of the winners and many of the finalists in the 1992 awards.

Presents the winning stories for best science fiction and fantasy of 1992, featuring works by Connie Willis and Frederick Pohl, and appreciations of the late Fritz Leiber.

Contents:
Introduction (Nebula Awards 28) • essay by James Morrow
Is Science Fiction Out to Lunch? Some Thoughts on the Year 1992 • essay by John Clute
Even the Queen • (1992) • short story by Connie Willis
Danny Goes to Mars • (1992) • novelette by Pamela Sargent
Matter's End • (1991) • novelette by Gregory Benford
In Memoriam: Fritz Leiber • essay by James Morrow
Gentleman Fritz • essay by Poul Anderson
Doing It Right • essay by David G. Hartwell
A World Without Fritz • essay by Stephen King
Let There Be Fandom • essay by Frederik Pohl
The July Ward • (1991) • novelette by S.N. Dyer (i.e. Sharon N. Farber)
Lennon Spex • (1992) • short story by Paul Di Filippo
The Mountain to Mohammed • (1992) • short story by Nancy Kress
Hopeful Monsters: The SF and Fantasy Films of 1992 • essay by Nick Lowe
Song of the Martian Cricket • (1991) • poem by David Lunde (variant of Song of the Martian Cricket (for Marilyn))
Vinland the Dream • (1991) • short story by Kim Stanley Robinson
Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats • (1991) • short story by Michael Bishop
City of Truth • (1991) • novella by James Morrow