Contents (view Concise Listing)

• vii • Introduction (When It Changed: Science Into Fiction) • (2009) • essay by Geoff Ryman
• 1 • Carbon: Part One • (2009) • short story by Justina Robson
• 7 • Afterword: How You Look At It • (2009) • essay by Andrew Bleloch
• 9 • Global Collider Generation: an Idyll • (2009) • short story by Paul Cornell
• 25 • Afterword: It's Real, It's Big, It's Noble • (2009) • essay by Rob Appleby
• 27 • Moss Witch • (2009) • short story by Sara Maitland
• 39 • Afterword: Lifeforms • (2009) • essay by Jennifer Rowntree
• 41 • Death Knocks • (2009) • short story by Ken MacLeod
• 55 • Afterword: Fantastic Voyage • (2009) • essay by Richard Blake
• 57 • Collision • [Buonarotti Transit] • (2009) • short story by Gwyneth Jones
• 71 • Afterword: No Final Word • (2009) • essay by Kai Hock
• 73 • Without a Shell • (2009) • short story by Adam Marek
• 86 • Afterword: Beyond the Military • (2009) • essay by Vinod Dhanak
• 89 • You • (2009) • novelette by Geoff Ryman
• 117 • Afterword: Egyptian Parchments and the Mary Rose • (2009) • essay by Manolis Pantos
• 121 • In the Event of • (2009) • short story by Michael Arditti
• 140 • Afterword: Clones are Still People After All • (2009) • essay by John Harris (bioethicist)
• 143 • Zoology • (2009) • short story by Simon Ings
• 156 • Afterword: Exceptions • (2009) • essay by Matthew Cobb
• 159 • Temporary • (2009) • short story by Frank Cottrell Boyce
• 164 • Afterword: A Star the Size of the Earth, Covered in H-Bombs • (2009) • essay by Tim O'Brien (II)
• 167 • Doing the Butterfly • (2009) • short story by Kit Reed
• 182 • Afterword: The Sensitivity of the Technique • (2009) • essay by Steve Williams
• 185 • White Skies • (2009) • short story by Chaz Brenchley
• 203 • Afterword: Skies and Sea • (2009) • essay by Sarah Lindley
• 205 • Enigma • (2009) • short story by Liz Williams
• 219 • Afterword: Artificial? Intelligence? • (2009) • essay by Steve Furber
• 221 • The Bellini Madonna • (2009) • short story by Patricia Duncker
• 232 • Afterword: A Cosmic Lighthouse • (2009) • essay by Tim O'Brien (II)
• 235 • Hair • (2009) • novelette by Adam Roberts
• 263 • Afterword: Hair's Breadth • (2009) • essay by Rein Ulijn
• 265 • Carbon: Part Two • (2009) • short story by Justina Robson
• 269 • Contributors (When It Changed: Science Into Fiction) • (2009) • essay by uncredited