"A Tom Doherty Associates Book."
"A Sci Fi essential book"--Jacket.
Content Note
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 --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 key / Ian Whates -- The godmother protocols / Heather M. Whitney -- The great good-bye / Robert Charles Wilson -- Pigs on the wing / K. Erik Ziemelis.