Contents:

• Inappropriate Behaviour by Pat Murphy
• Start the Clock by Benjamin Rosenbaum
• The Third Party by David Moles
• The Voluntary State by Christopher Rowe
• Shiva in Shadow by Nancy Kress
• The People of Sand and Slag by Paolo Bacigalupi
• The Clapping Hands of God by Michael Flynn
• Tourism by M. John Harrison
• Scout's Honor by Terry Bisson
• Men are Trouble by James Patrick Kelly
• Mother Aegypt by Kage Baker
• Synthetic Serendipity by Vernor Vinge
• Skin Deep by Mary Rosenblum
• Delhi by Vandana Singh
• The Tribes of Bela by Albert E. Cowdrey
• Sitka by Willian Sanders
• Leviathan Wept by Daniel Abraham
• The Defenders by Colin P Davies
• Mayflower II by Stephen Baxter
• Riding the White Bull by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• Falling Star by Brendan DuBois
• The Dragons of Summer Gulch by Robert Reed
• The Ocean of the Blind by James L. Cambias
• The Garden: A Hwarhath Science Fictional Romance by Eleanor Arnason
• Footnote by Peter F Hamilton
• Sisyphus and the Stranger by Paul Di Filippo
• Ten Sigmas by Paul Melko
• Investments by Walter Jon Williams