Cover
Also Edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Introduction
The Star: H. G. Wells
Sultana’s Dream: Rokheya Shekhawat Hossain
The Triumph of Mechanics: Karl Hans Strobl
The New Overworld: Paul Scheerbart
Elements of Pataphysics: Alfred Jarry
Mechanopolis: Miguel de Unamuno
The Doom of Principal City: Yefim Zozulya
The Comet: W. E. B. Du Bois
The Fate of the Poseidonia: Clare Winger Harris
The Star Stealers: Edmond Hamilton
The Conquest of Gola: Leslie F. Stone
A Martian Odyssey: Stanley G. Weinbaum
The Last Poet and the Robots: A. Merritt
The Microscopic Giants: Paul Ernst
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius: Jorge Luis Borges
Desertion: Clifford D. Simak
September 2005: The Martian: Ray Bradbury
Baby HP: Juan José Arreola
Surface Tension: James Blish
Beyond Lies the Wub: Philip K. Dick
The Snowball Effect: Katherine MacLean
Prott: Margaret St. Clair
The Liberation of Earth: William Tenn
Let Me Live in a House: Chad Oliver
The Star: Arthur C. Clarke
Grandpa: James H. Schmitz
The Game of Rat and Dragon: Cordwainer Smith
The Last Question: Isaac Asimov
Stranger Station: Damon Knight
Sector General: James White
The Visitors: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Pelt: Carol Emshwiller
The Monster: Gérard Klein
The Man Who Lost the Sea: Theodore Sturgeon
The Waves: Silvina Ocampo
Plenitude: Will Worthington
The Voices of Time: J. G. Ballard
The Astronaut: Valentina Zhuravlyova
The Squid Chooses Its Own Ink: Adolfo Bioy Casares
2 B R 0 2 B: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A Modest Genius: Vadim Shefner
Day of Wrath: Sever Gansovsky
The Hands: John Baxter
Darkness: André Carneiro
“Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman: Harlan Ellison
Nine Hundred Grandmothers: R. A. Lafferty
Day Million: Frederik Pohl
Student Body: F. L. Wallace
Aye, and Gomorrah: Samuel R. Delany
The Hall of Machines: Langdon Jones
Soft Clocks: Yoshio Aramaki
Three from Moderan: David R. Bunch
Let Us Save the Universe: Stanisław Lem
Vaster Than Empires and More Slow: Ursula K. Le Guin
Good News from the Vatican: Robert Silverberg
When It Changed: Joanna Russ
And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side: James Tiptree Jr.
Where Two Paths Cross: Dmitri Bilenkin
Standing Woman: Yasutaka Tsutsui
The IWM 1000: Alicia Yánez Cossío
The House of Compassionate Sharers: Michael Bishop
Sporting with the Chid: Barrington J. Bayley
Sandkings: George R. R. Martin
Wives: Lisa Tuttle
The Snake Who Had Read Chomsky: Josephine Saxton
Reiko’s Universe Box: Kajio Shinji
Swarm: Bruce Sterling
Mondocane: Jacques Barbéri
Blood Music: Greg Bear
Bloodchild: Octavia E. Butler
Variation on a Man: Pat Cadigan
Passing as a Flower in the City of the Dead: S. N. Dyer
New Rose Hotel: William Gibson
Pots: C. J. Cherryh
Snow: John Crowley
The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things: Karen Joy Fowler
The Unmistakable Smell of Wood Violets: Angélica Gorodischer
The Owl of Bear Island: Jon Bing
Readers of the Lost Art: Élisabeth Vonarburg
A Gift from the Culture: Iain M. Banks
Paranamanco: Jean-Claude Dunyach
Crying in the Rain: Tanith Lee
The Frozen Cardinal: Michael Moorcock
Rachel in Love: Pat Murphy
Sharing Air: Manjula Padmanabhan
Schwarzschild Radius: Connie Willis
All the Hues of Hell: Gene Wolfe
Vacuum States: Geoffrey A. Landis
Two Small Birds: Han Song
Burning Sky: Rachel Pollack
Before I Wake: Kim Stanley Robinson
Death Is Static Death Is Movement: Misha Nogha
The Brains of Rats: Michael Blumlein
Gorgonoids: Leena Krohn
Vacancy for the Post of Jesus Christ: Kojo Laing
The Universe of Things: Gwyneth Jones
The Remoras: Robert Reed
The Ghost Standard: William Tenn
Remnants of the Virago Crypto-System: Geoffrey Maloney
How Alex Became a Machine: Stepan Chapman
The Poetry Cloud: Cixin Liu
Story of Your Life: Ted Chiang
Craphound: Cory Doctorow
The Slynx: Tatyana Tolstaya
Baby Doll: Johanna Sinisalo
About the Editors
About the Translators
Acknowledgments
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