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• The Hole in the Hole • [Wilson Wu and Irving • 1] • (1994) • novelette by Terry Bisson
• Our Lady of the Sauropods • (1980) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• Into the Miranda Rift • (1993) • novella by G. David Nordley
• Vacuum States • (1988) • short story by Geoffrey A. Landis
• Cascade Point • (1983) • novella by Timothy Zahn
• The Black Hole Passes • [Eight Worlds] • (1975) • novelette by John Varley
• The Peacock King • (1965) • short story by Larry McCombs and Ted White
• Bridge • [Cities in Flight] • (1952) • novelette by James Blish
• Out of the Sun • (1958) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• Hotrider • (1991) • short story by Keith Brooke
• The Width of the World • (1983) • short story by Ian Watson
• Mother Grasshopper • (1997) • short story by Michael Swanwick
• A Dance to Strange Musics • (1998) • novelette by Gregory Benford
• Palindromic • (1997) • short story by Peter Crowther
• The Edge of the Map • [Susanna and Ivo] • (2006) • short story by Ian Creasey
• The Pevatron Rats • (2009) • novelette by Stephen Baxter
• Castle in the Sky • (2009) • novelette by Robert Reed
• Waves and Smart Magma • (2009) • novelette by Paul Di Filippo
• Anhedonia • (2009) • novelette by Adam Roberts
• The Rest Is Speculation • (2009) • short story by Eric Brown
• Tiger Burning • (2006) • novelette by Alastair Reynolds (variant of Tiger, Burning)
• Acknowledgments (The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF) • (2009) • essay by uncredited
• Introduction: That Sense of Wonder • (2009) • essay by Mike Ashley