Contents Introduction (Chrysalis 6) • essay by Roy Torgeson The Star-Filled Sea Is Smooth Tonight • short story by Thomas F. Monteleone The Wood for the Trees • short story by Leanne Frahm Who Calls Me Villain? • novelette by James A. Corrick With Mingled Feelings of Anticipation and Apprehension the Emigrants Leave Their Native Earth for a Far-Off Destination • short story by Ward Moore A Lingering Scent of Jasmine • short story by Pat Murphy The Rec Field • short story by Bill Pronzini The Wizard of Shensi Province • novelette by Glenn Chang Try to Remember • (1960) • short story by R.A. Lafferty Horatio Hornblower and the Songs of Innocence • shortstory by Rick Wilber Thirty-Six Views of His Dead Majesty • novelette by Barry N. Malzberg Apollyon Ex Machina • short story by Stephen Goldin Ultima Thule • short story by Arline Todd The Burden of Their Song • novella by Karl Hansen