Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 7 • Introduction (Fables from the Fountain) • essay by Peter Weston
• 11 • No Smoke Without Fire • short fiction by Ian Whates
• 21 • Transients • short fiction by Stephen Baxter
• 37 • Forever Blowing Bubbles • short story by Ian Watson
• 47 • On the Messdecks of Madness • short fiction by Paul Graham Raven
• 67 • The Story Bug • short fiction by James Lovegrove
• 83 • "And Weep Like Alexander" • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 89 • The Ghost in the Machine • short fiction by Colin Bruce
• 99 • A Bird in the Hand • short fiction by Charles Stross
• 113 • The Hidden Depths of Bogna • short fiction by Liz Williams
• 123 • In Pursuit of Chuchunaa • short fiction by Eric Brown
• 139 • The Cyberseeds • short fiction by Steve Longworth
• 153 • Feathers of the Dinosaur • short fiction by Henry Gee
• 165 • Book Wurms • short fiction by Andy West
• 179 • The Pocklington Poltergeist • short fiction by David Langford
• 187 • The Last Man in Space • short fiction by Andrew J. Wilson
• 199 • A Multiplicity of Phaedra Lament • short story by Peter Crowther
• 221 • The Girl with the White Ant Tattoo • short fiction by Tom Hunter
• 233 • The 9,000,000,001st Name of God • short fiction by Adam Roberts