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• xi • Introduction: The Next Step (The Mammoth Book of Science Fiction) • essay by Mike Ashley
• 1 • Ulla, Ulla • (2002) • short story by Eric Brown
• 27 • Deathday • [Confederation Universe Stories] • (1991) • novelette by Peter F. Hamilton
• 44 • The Infinite Assassin • (1991) • short story by Greg Egan
• 61 • Anachron • (1954) • short story by Damon Knight
• 81 • Firewatch • [Time Travel] • (1982) • novelette by Connie Willis (variant of Fire Watch)
• 124 • At the 'Me' Shop • (1995) • novelette by Robert Reed
• 147 • Vinland the Dream • (1991) • short story by Kim Stanley Robinson
• 160 • A Ticket to Tranai • (1955) • novelette by Robert Sheckley
• 202 • The Exit Door Leads In • (1979) • short story by Philip K. Dick
• 223 • What Have I Done? • (1952) • short story by Mark Clifton
• 243 • Finis • short story by Frank Lillie Pollock [as by Frank L. Pollock]
• 256 • The Last Days of Earth: Being the Story of the Launching of the "Red Sphere" • (1901) • short story by Geo. C. Wallis [as by George C. Wallis]
• 269 • Approaching Perimelasma • (1998) • novelette by Geoffrey A. Landis
• 298 • The Pen and the Dark • [Unorthodox Engineers] • (1966) • novelette by Colin Kapp
• 329 • Inanimate Objection • (1954) • novelette by H. Chandler Elliott
• 347 • The Very Pulse of the Machine • (1998) • short story by Michael Swanwick
• 368 • High Eight • (1965) • novelette by Keith Roberts [as by David Stringer]
• 404 • Shards • (1962) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• 415 • Except My Life³ • (1991) • novelette by John Morressy (variant of Except My Life, Except My Life, Except My Life)
• 444 • Into Your Tent I'll Creep • (1957) • short story by Eric Frank Russell
• 455 • A Death in the House • (1959) • novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• 477 • Refugium • short story by Stephen Baxter