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Synopsis

The art of writing great science fiction is that it challenges the imagination, pushing it to extreme limits and in this anthology, selecting some of the best modern science fiction from the last fifty years, twenty leading authors of the genre ask the question 'What if...?' and then give their own very personal views of the changes and surprises which may befall humanity in the centuries to come. In Ulla, Ulla Eric Brown recounts the first manned Martian expedition and discovers that H. G. Wells may have been right after all. In The Infinite Assassin Greg Egan polices the dimensions, seeking those who are taking over their alternate selves. Geoffrey A. Landis takes us into the depths of a black hole in Approaching Perimelasma. Is the ultimate Utopia heaven or hell? Robert Sheckley finds out in the classic A Ticket to Tranai. These and other stories by James White, Eric Frank Russell, Robert Reed, H. Beam Piper and H. Chandler Elliot make this one of the most entertaining and thought-provoking science fiction anthologies in lightyears.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The Next Step - essay by Mike Ashley
• Ulla, Ulla - (2002) - short story by Eric Brown
• Deathday - (1991) - novelette by Peter F. Hamilton
• The Infinite Assassin - (1991) - short story by Greg Egan
• Anachron - (1954) - short story by Damon Knight
• Firewatch - (1982) - novelette by Connie Willis
• At the 'Me' Shop - (1995) - novelette by Robert Reed
• Vinland the Dream - (1991) - short story by Kim Stanley Robinson
• A Ticket to Tranai - (1955) - novelette by Robert Sheckley
• The Exit Door Leads In - (1979) - short story by Philip K. Dick
• What Have I Done? - (1952) - short story by Mark Clifton
• Finis - (1906) - short story by Frank Lillie Pollock
• The Last Days of Earth: Being the Story of the Launching of the "Red Sphere" - (1901) - short story by Geo. C. Wallis
• Approaching Perimelasma - (1998) - novelette by Geoffrey A. Landis
• The Pen and the Dark - (1966) - novelette by Colin Kapp
• Inanimate Objection - (1954) - novelette by H. Chandler Elliott
• The Very Pulse of the Machine - (1998) - short story by Michael Swanwick
• High Eight - (1965) - novelette by Keith Roberts
• Shards - (1962) - short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• Except My Life³ - (1991) - novelette by John Morressy
• Into Your Tent I'll Creep - (1957) - short story by Eric Frank Russell
• A Death in the House - (1959) - short story by Clifford D. Simak
• Refugium - short story by Stephen Baxter

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