Riding the Hell-Bound Train
• Introduction
• The Hell-Bound Train
❖ Past
• Tonica Nights, Tonica Days
• Night Lights
• Big Guy
• Night Moves
• Farmboys on the Wall
• Nightmares
• Radical Stories
• Psychedelic Catch and Release
• Winner—A Bro Not Lost
• Gentle Doctor Tim
• Wally Nelson
• 25 years
• Engineering a Date
❖ Present
• Practical Polygamy
• When Good Communes Go Bad
• Dramatis Personae
• Our House
• Social Structures
• Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Love?
• Fermi and Drake
• The Stock Market, Forest Fires, and the Fermi Paradox
• Psycho-killers and Evil
• Dispatches from Yesterday’s Future
• Information Wasn’t Always Cheap
• Kate and the Magic Nachos
• The Knowledge That You’re Brilliant…
• “That’s Why We Crawled Up from the Mud, Doncha Know”
• So, What Did You Learn From Robert Heinlein?
• The Stardancer Interviews
• Pre-flight interview
• Post-flight interview
• Worlds without the United States
• Boon Companions—Five Urban Fantasies
• Lost Calico
• The Cockroach Fairy
• Desert Wind
• Maxwell’s Gremlin
• Ed Morgan’s Ride
❖ Future
• Skateboarding into the Singularity
• The Sound of Kittens’ Wings
• The Fork in the Road
• Left Behind
• Hypersex, Fembots, and New Genders
• My Past through Tomorrow
•I ntroduction—Lost Worlds to Infinite Futures
• March 31, 2008—Predictions for Yesterday
• November 5, 2008—The Day After Election Day
• September 27, 2012—Nukes and Their Aftermath
• September 10, 2017—Economic Problems and New Discoveries
• September 11, 2027—Fateful Anniversary
• September 12, 2047—Practical Immortality
• Epilogue—Two Stories of the Far Future
• Somewhen
• A Price Greater than Rubies