For your consideration:

• Gregory Benford, “Exposures” (445-456): what do you make of the two sections of the story that deal with organized religion, the one a flashback to the protagonist’s youth and the other the conclusion of the story? Of the juxtaposition of the reading of the computer images with the protagonist’s domestic life?
• Greg Bear, “Schrödinger’s Plague” (477-484): so what would you have done? what do you think Dietrich and Krantz might have done?
• Howard Waldrop, “… the World, as we Know ‘t” (485-500): reflect on the title.
• Connie Willis, “Schwarzschild Radius” (689-704): is this as simple as a black hole being used as a metaphor for war?
• Paul Preuss, “Half-Life” (780-793): another story with WWI as an element; another story that compares the work of scientists to their domestic lives. This one is based on historical figures. What do you make of the coda? [And check out the image of Curie and family at Lisa W's]
• Michael Swanwick, “Periodic Table of Science Fiction“: wtf?
• Any commonalities here? in the ways in which scientific method is presented? themes? literary devices and tropes?