Table of Contents

• Introduction, Ian Whates
• When We Harvested the Nacre-Rice, Benjanun Sriduangkaew
• The Goblin Hunter, Chris Beckett
• Homo Floresiensis, Ken Liu
• A Taste for Murder, Julie E. Czerneda
• Double Blind, Tony Ballantyne
• The Mashup, Sean Williams
• The Frost on Jade Buds, Aliette de Bodard
• Popular Images from the First Manned Mission to Enceladus, Alex Dally MacFarlane
• Red Lights, and Rain, Gareth L. Powell
• They Swim Through Sunset Seas, Laura Lam
• Faith Without Teeth, Ian Watson
• Thing and Sick, Adam Roberts
• The Sullen Engines, George Zebrowski
• Dark Harvest, Cat Sparks
• Fift and Shria, Benjamin Rosenbaum
• The Howl, Ian R. MacLeod & Martin Sketchley
• The Science of Chance, Nina Allan
• Endless, Rachel Swirsky

About the Author

Ian Whates is a director of both the Science- Fiction Writers Association and the British Science- Fiction Association. He is the proprietor and editor of NewCon Press. His novels The Noise Within and The Noise Revealed are published by Solaris; he has also written City of Dreams & Nightmare and City of Hope & Despair.