- Time Enough for Love
- A journey through the author's discovery and experience with science fiction writing and publishing.
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- Whale Song
- A drug lord accepts a proposal to transport drugs into the United States inside the mouth of remote-guided whales. Other methods of transporting drugs in have but all been locked down. On their return journey, their whale is harpooned and killed by illegal whalers with them soon to follow.
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- A Journey in Search of Home
- The author writes about her story "The Wandering Earth" where she likens it to her journey writing science fiction. A long journey, accompanied by loneliness and terror, in search of a home.
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- The Messenger
- A time traveler loans a magnificent violin to an old Albert Einstein to ease his worries about the future.
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- Thirty Years of Making Magic Out of Ordinariness
- The author writes about her journey writing science fiction and where science fiction fits in the world of fiction.
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- Butterfly
Based on the Butterfly Effect
- A scientist in a warring state uses a super-computer to track down sensitivity points for a weather model he created that allows large changes in weather patterns from small changes in the weather in other places. Using this information, he travels the globe to cover his home country in clouds to stop bombs from dropping. Unfortunately, he's not able to maintain a continuous cloud cover and both his wife and daughter are killed due to the bombings.
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- One and One Hundred Thousand Earths
- The author likens space travel and its decline to the investment required for earth's environmental sustainability.
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- On Finishing Death's End, the Last Book in the Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy
- The author talks about sci-fi is the product of leisurely and carefree minds, that social unrest is lethal to the genre, and that only with stability and quiet can we allow the universe's catastrophes to fascinate and awe us.
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- The Battle Between Sci-Fi and Fantasy
- With the advance of science, myths were sort-of lost to knowledge, because the real-world and magic have a clear well-defined boundary. The perceived realism that captivated people with old fantasy was greatly diminished. Science fiction helps bridge that border by providing that sense of realism to an otherwise far-fetched world, allowing reality and mythology to once again become fused, in worlds where fantasy and science fiction both exist.
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