This is an above-average issue. All of the stories except for Pipeline are excellent. I especially liked Second Person, Present Tense.

• Novelette: Generations, by Frederik Pohl - If our universe was just a simulation in a computer, how could we tell?
• Novelette: Pipeline, by Brian W. Aldis - Carl Roddard drives the length of Turkenistan's brand new oil pipeline.
• Novelette: Second Person, Present Tense, by Daryl Gregory - A young girl, Therese, takes a designer drug called Zen that destroys her concept of self. She awakes a new person in her old body.
• Novelette: Harvest Moon, by William Barton - In an alternate timeline several American astronauts get stranded on the Moon for nine years.
• Finished, by Robert Reed - Medical science allows a person to be "finished" by downloading his brain into a new body; he stays young and healthy forever at the cost of losing to ability to change his personality or grow as a person.
• The Company Man, by John Phillip Olsen - An agent for aliens on Earth must help them buy up Earth's greatest artistic treasures.
• A Rocket for the Republic, by Lou Antonelli - Rocket ship in the Republic of Texas.