‘Tower of Babylon,’ copyright © 1990 by Ted Chiang; first appeared in Omni.
‘Understand,’ copyright © 1991 by Ted Chiang; first appeared in Asimov’s.
‘Division by Zero,’ copyright © 1991 by Ted Chiang; first appeared in Full Spectrum 3.
‘Story of Your Life,’ copyright © 1998 by Ted Chiang; first appeared in Starlight 2.
‘Seventy-Two Letters,’ copyright © 2000 by Ted Chiang; first appeared in Vanishing Acts.
‘The Evolution of Human Science,’ copyright © 2000 by Ted Chiang; first appeared in Nature under the title ‘Catching Crumbs from the Table.’
‘Hell Is the Absence of God,’ copyright © 2001 by Ted Chiang; first appeared in Starlight 3.