1 • The Sorceress in Spite of Herself • (1982) • shortstory by Pat Cadigan 16 • Ado • (1988) • shortstory by Connie Willis 26 • Perpetuity Blues • (1987) • novelette by Neal Barrett, Jr. 61 • Blunderbore • (1990) • shortstory by Esther M. Friesner 72 • The Front Page • (1989) • shortstory by Ronald Anthony Cross 86 • Stable Strategies for Middle Management • (1988) • shortstory by Eileen Gunn 101 • The Faithful Companion at Forty • (1987) • shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler 112 • Something Rich and Strange • (1986) • shortstory by R. A. Lafferty 128 • Jesse Revenged • (1986) • shortstory by Don Webb 135 • The Critic on the Hearth • [Azazel] • (1992) • shortstory by Isaac Asimov 146 • The Day the Invaders Came • (1984) • shortstory by George Alec Effinger [as by O. Niemand ] 153 • Nine Tenths of the Law • (1991) • shortstory by Susan Casper 161 • The Hemstitch Notebooks • (1989) • shortstory by John M. Ford 170 • Pickman's Modem • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1992) • shortstory by Lawrence Watt-Evans 178 • Body Man • (1986) • shortstory by Avram Davidson 183 • Space Aliens Saved My Marriage • (1990) • shortstory by Sharon N. Farber 194 • Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance? • (1988) • novelette by Howard Waldrop 229 • Bears Discover Fire • (1990) • shortstory by Terry Bisson
Gardner Raymond Dozois was an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004. He won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, both as an editor and a writer of short fiction. Wikipedia entry: Gardner Dozois
No heavy sci-fi technical jargon, no long drawn out complicated plots. Just a nice collection of sci-fi short stories that will punch you in the nose and you will still laugh.