Contents

Introduction

David Langford

New Hope for the Dead

Hannu Rajaniemi

Deus Ex Homine

Gardner R. Dozois

When the Great Days Came

Daryl Gregory

Second Person, Present Tense

Justina Robson

Dreadnought

Ken MacLeod

A Case of Consilience

Tobias S. Buckell

Toy Planes

Neal Asher

Mason’s Rats

Vonda N. McIntyre

A Modest Proposal

Rudy Rucker

Guadalupe and Hieronymus Bosch

Peter F. Hamilton

The Forever Kitten

Matthew Jarpe

City of Reason

Bruce Sterling

Ivory Tower

Lauren McLaughlin

Sheila

Paul McAuley

Rats of the System

Larissa Lai

I Love Liver: A Romance

James Patrick Kelly

The Edge of Nowhere

Ted Chiang

What’s Expected of Us

Michael Swanwick

Girls and Boys, Come Out to Play

Stephen Baxter

Lakes of Light

Oliver Morton

The Albian Message

Bud Sparhawk

Bright Red Star

Alaya Dawn Johnson

Third Day Lights

Greg Bear

Ram Shift Phase 2

Gregory Benford

On the Brane

R. Garcia y Robertson

Oxygen Rising

Adam Roberts

And Future King…

Alastair Reynolds

Beyond the Aquila Rift

Joe Haldeman

Angel of Light

Liz Williams

Ikiryoh

Cory Doctorow

I, Robot

Acknowledgments

About the Editors

Praise

Other Books by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer

Copyright

About the Publisher