Acknowledgments
Introduction
Paul J. McAuley
Reef
David Brin
Reality Check
Robert Silverberg
The Millennium Express
Tananarive Due
Patient Zero
Ken MacLeod
The Oort Crowd
M. Shayne Bell
The Thing About Benny
Brian Stableford
The Last Supper
Joan Slonczewski
Tuberculosis Bacteria Join UN
Howard Waldrop
Our Mortal Span
David Langford
Different Kinds of Darkness
Norman Spinrad
New Ice Age, or Just Cold Feet?
Stephen Dedman
The Devotee
Chris Beckett
The Marriage of Sky and Sea
John M. Ford
In the Days of the Comet
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Birthday of the World
Greg Egan
Oracle
Nancy Kress
To Cuddle Amy
Brian W. Aldiss
Steppenpferd
Stephen Baxter
Sheena 5
Darrell Schweitzer
The Fire Eggs
Robert Sheckley
The New Horla
Dan Simmons
Madame Bovary,C’ est Moi
Robert Reed
Grandma’s Jumpman
Charles Dexter Ward
Bordeaux Mixture
Robert Charles Wilson
The Dryad’s Wedding
Michael F. Flynn
Built Upon the Sands of Time
Ted Chiang
Seventy-Two Letters
About the Editor
Edited by David G. Hartwell
Copyright
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