Utriusque cosmi /Robert Charles Wilson -- A story, with beans / Steven Gould -- Under the shouting sky / Karl Bunker -- Events preceding the Helvetican Renaissance / John Kessel -- Useless things / Maureen F. McHugh -- Black swan / Bruce Sterling -- Crimes and glory / Paul J. McAuley -- Seventh fall / Alexander Irvine -- Butterfly bomb / Dominic Green -- Infinities / Vandana Singh -- Things undone / John Barnes -- On the human plane / Jay Lake -- The island / Peter Watts -- The integrity of the chain / Lavie Tidhar -- Lion walk / Mary Rosenblum -- Escape to other worlds with science fiction / Jo Walton -- Three leaves of aloe / Rand B. Lee -- Mongoose / Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette -- Paradiso lost / Albert E. Cowdrey -- It takes two / Nicola Griffith -- Blocked / Geoff Ryman -- Solace / James Van Pelt -- Act one / Nancy Kress -- Twilight of the gods / John C. Wright -- Blood dauber / Ted Kosmatka and Michael Poore -- This wind blowing, and this tide / Damien Broderick -- Hair / Adam Roberts -- Before my last breath / Robert Reed -- One of our bastards is missing / Paul Cornell -- Edison's Frankenstein / Chris Roberson -- Erosion / Ian Creasey -- Vishnu at the cat circus / Ian McDonald.