Introduction: nostalgia for the future / Henry Gee --
Cognitive ability and the light bulb / Brian Aldiss --
Don't imitate / Gilles Amon --
Check elastic before jumping / Neal Asher --
Twenty2 / Nate Balding --
Under Martian ice / Stephen Baxter --
Party smart card / Barrington J. Bayley --
Ram shift phase 2 / Greg Bear --
A life with a semisent / Gregory Benford --
Damned if you don't / Lucy Bergman --
The punishment fits the crime / David Berreby --
Toy planes / Tobias S. Buckell --
A concrete example / J. Casti ... [et al.] --
The aching of Dion Harper / Arthur Chrenkoff --
Improving the neighborhood / Arthur C. Clarke --
Omphalosphere: New York 2057 / Jack Cohen --
Picasso's cat / Ron Collins --
My grandfather's river / Brenda Cooper --
Sandcastles: a dystopia / Kathryn Cramer --
Adam's hot dogs at the end of the world / Jeff Crook --
The party's over / Penelope Kim Crowther --
Transport of delight / Roland Denison --
The perfect lover / Paul DiFilippo --
Printcrime / Cory Doctorow --
A brief history of death switches / David Eagleman --
Only connect / Greg Egan --
At the zoo / Warren Ellis --
The liquidators / Michael Garrett Farrelly --
In the days of the comet / John M. Ford --
Ars longa, vita brevis / James Alan Gardner --
Are we not men? / Henry Gee --
It never rains in VR / John Gilbey --
Gordy gave me your name / Jim Giles --
Nostalgia / Hiromi Goto --
Spawn of Satan? / Nicola Griffith.
Take over / Jon Courtenay Grimwood --
Speak, geek / Eileen Gunn --
Heartwired / Joe Haldeman --
The forever kitten / Peter F. Hamilton --
The road to the year 3000 / Harry Harrison --
Operation Tesla / Jeff Hecht --
Making the sale / Fredric Heeren --
Subpoenaed in Syracuse / Tom Holt --
Men sell not such in any town / Nalo Hopkinson --
Total internal reflection / Gwyneth Jones --
Ringing up baby / Elen Klages --
Semi-autonomous / Jim Kling --
Product development / Nancy Kress --
I love liver: a romance / Larissa Lai --
Avatars in space / Geoffrey A. Landis --
COMP.BASILISK FAQ / David Langford --
Gathering of the clans / Reinaldo José Lopes --
Taking good care of myself / Ian R. MacLeod --
Undead again / Ken MacLeod --
Words, words, words / Elisabeth Malartre --
My morning glory / David Marusek --
Don't mention the "F" word / Neil Mathur --
The candidate / Jack McDevitt --
A modest proposal for the perfection of nature / Vonda N. McIntyre --
The Republic of George's Island / Donna McMahon --
The stars my incarnation / Robert A. Metzger --
The computiful game / Paul Steven Miller --
Oscar night, 2054 / Syne Mitchell --
The visible men / Michael Moorcock --
The Albian message / Oliver Morton --
Photons do not lie / Euan Nisbet --
Stranger in the night / Salvador Nogueira --
Tick-tock curly-wurly / Gareth Owens --
Daddy's slight miscalculation / Ashley Pellegrino --
Brain drain / Frederik Pohl --
Great unreported discoveries no. 163 / Mike Resnick --
Feeling rejected / Alastair Reynolds --
The trial of Jeremy Owens / Peter Roberts --
Prometheus unbound, at last / Kim Stanley Robinson --
Dreadnought / Justina Robson --
Falling / Benjamin Rosenbaum.
Panpsychism proved / Rudy Rucker --
The abdication of Pope Mary III / Robert J. Sawyer --
The charge-up man / Catherine H. Shaffer --
From the desk of Jarrod Foster / Biren Shah --
Pluto story / Robert Silverberg --
Madame Bovary, c'est moi / Dan Simmons --
Tuberculosis bacteria join UN / Joan Slonczewski --
For he on honeydew hath fed... / Paul Smaglik --
A man of the theater / Norman Sprinrad --
Ivory tower / Bruce Sterling --
Play it again, Psam / Ian Stewart --
MAXO signals / Charles Stross --
Golden year / Igor Teper --
Paratext / Scarlett Thomas --
Murphy's cat / Joan D. Vinge --
Win a nobel prize! / Vernor Vinge --
A leap of faith / Theo von Hohenheim --
Nadia's nector / Ian Watson --
Statler pulchrifex / Matt Weber --
All is not lost / Scott Westerfeld --
The godmother protocols / Heather M. Whitney --
The great good-bye / Robert Charles Wilson --
Pigs on the wing / K. Erik Ziemelis.