This collection of 21 innovative and mind-blowing stories includes contributions from Sci-Fi pioneers such as Stephen Baxter, Robert Reed, J. G. Ballard, Arthur C. Clarke, Alastair Reynolds, and Geoffrey Landis. Contents: Out of the sun / Arthur C. Clarke -- The Pevatron rats / Stephen Baxter -- The edge of the map / Ian Creasey -- Cascade Point / Timothy Zahn -- A dance to strange musics / Gregory Benford -- Palindromic / Peter Crowther -- Castle in the sky / Robert Reed -- The hole in the hole / Terry Bisson -- Hotrider / Keith Brooke -- Mother grasshopper / Michael Swanwick -- Waves and smart magma / Paul Di Filippo -- The black hole passes / John Varley -- The peacock king / Ted White, Larry McCombs -- Bridge / James Blish -- Anhedonia / Adam Roberts -- Tiger burning / Alastair Reynolds -- The width of the world / Ian Watson -- Our lady of the sauropods / Robert Silverberg -- Into the Miranda Rift / G. David Nordley -- The rest is speculation / Eric Brown -- Vacuum states / Geoffrey A. Landis

Publication Year: 2009