The stories in this collection imaginatively take readers far across the universe, into the very core of their beings, to the realm of the Gods, and to the moment just after now. Included are the works of masters of the form and the bright new talents of tomorrow.

Edited by Gardner Dozois

Contents:

• Off on a Starship by William Barton
• It’s All True by John Kessel
• Rogue Farm by Charles Stross
• The Ice by Steven Popkes
• EJ-ES by Nancy Kress
• The Bellman by John Varley
• The Bear’s Baby by Judith Moffett
• Calling Your Name by Howard Waldrop
• June Sixteenth at Anna’s by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• The Green Leopard Plague by Walter Jon Williams
• The Fluted Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Dead Worlds by Jack Skillingstead
• King Dragon by Michael Swanwick
• Singletons in Love by Paul Melko
• Anomalous Structures of My Dreams by M. Shayne Bell
• The Cookie Monster by Vernor Vinge
• Joe Steele by Harry Turtledove
• Birth Days by Geoff Ryman
• Awake in the Night by John C. Wright
• The Long Way Home by James Van Pelt
• The Eyes of America by Geoffrey A. Landis
• Welcome to Olympus, Mr. Hearst by Kage Baker
• Night of Time by Robert Reed
• Strong Medicine by William Shunn
• Send Me a Mentagram by Dominic Green
• And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon by Paul Di Filippo
• Flashmen by Terry Dowling
• Dragonhead by Nick DiChario
• Dear Abbey by Terry Bisson