Out of the sun / Arthur C. Clarke --
The Pevatron rats / Stephen Baxter --
The edge of the map / Ian Creasey --
Cascade Point / Timothy Zahn --
A dance to strange musics / Gregory Benford --
Palindromic / Peter Crowther --
Castle in the sky / Robert Reed --
The hole in the hole / Terry Bisson --
Hotrider / Keith Brooke --
Mother grasshopper / Michael Swanwick --
Waves and smart magma / Paul Di Filippo --
The black hole passes / John Varley --
The peacock king / Ted White, Larry McCombs --
Anhedonia / Adam Roberts --
Tiger burning / Alastair Reynolds --
The width of the world / Ian Watson --
Our lady of the sauropods / Robert Silverberg --
Into the Miranda Rift / G. David Nordley --
The rest is speculation / Eric Brown --
Vacuum states / Geoffrey A. Landis.