Nicholas Royle - D.GO

Extremely bizarre story about an ad campaign that just keeps on growing and the one person who resists it...

Eric Brown - The Pharagean effect

Pharageans are aliens that look rather like chimps. An investigation team visiting the narrator's planet discovers something about them which explains a strange memory from his youth...

Don Webb - Djinn

Phil sees the incredible fire eater the 'Human Salamander' at a circus and this sets off an escalating series of events...

Greg Egan - Axiomatic

Implants can alter your personality or skills. The narrator buys an 'under the counter' implant for a special purpose...

Paul J. McAuley - Exiles

Independent spacers clash with fundamentalists on a backwoods planet.

Glenn Grant - Suburban industrial

Illegal player-controlled robots slug it out in a 'greenhouse world', year 2014, with ISDN being named as cutting-edge technology! ( )