The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF

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

vii • Acknowledgments (The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF) • essay by uncredited

ix • Introduction: That Sense of Wonder • essay by Mike Ashley

1 • Out of the Sun • (1958) • shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke

9 • The Pevatron Rats • (2009) • novelette by Stephen Baxter

30 • The Edge of the Map • (2006) • shortstory by Ian Creasey

47 • Cascade Point • (1983) • novella by Timothy Zahn

105 • A Dance to Strange Musics • (1998) • novelette by Gregory Benford

131 • Palindromic • (1997) • novelette by Peter Crowther

156 • Castle in the Sky • (2009) • novelette by Robert Reed

191 • The Hole in the Hole • [Wilson Wu and Irving • 1] • (1994) • novelette by Terry Bisson

224 • Hotrider • (1991) • shortstory by Keith Brooke

237 • Mother Grasshopper • (1997) • shortstory by Michael Swanwick

255 • Waves and Smart Magma • novelette by Paul Di Filippo

282 • The Black Hole Passes • [Eight Worlds] • (1975) • novelette by John Varley

309 • The Peacock King • (1965) • shortstory by Larry McCombs and Ted White

325 • Bridge • [Cities in Flight] • (1952) • novelette by James Blish

355 • Anhedonia • (2009) • novelette by Adam Roberts

380 • Tiger Burning • (2006) • novelette by Alastair Reynolds (variant of Tiger, Burning)

407 • The Width of the World • (1983) • shortstory by Ian Watson

421 • Our Lady of the Sauropods • (1980) • shortstory by Robert Silverberg

438 • Into the Miranda Rift • (1993) • novella by G. David Nordley

504 • The Rest is Speculation • shortstory by Eric Brown

524 • Vacuum States • (1988) • shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis