Gwyneth Jones - Blue clay blues

Very strange, and powerfully written account ofwhat looks like an abduction but turns into something very different...
NOTE: "Johnny Guglioli and and Bella appear in 'White Queen].

Brian Aldiss - Softly - as in an evening sunrise

Very strange, flips from daft characters carrying out "space exploration" to serious cosmology.

Terry Bisson - Are there any questions?

Hilarious presentation selling land reconstituted from waste as the new frontier of fashionable living....

Julian Flood - Children of a greater god

On a planet with killing extremes of radiation, humour is a serious business...

Stephen Baxter - In the manner of trees

Standard 'what happened to the colonists' puzzle...

Barrington Bayley - Quiddity wars

Humanity is dying against alien pressure but there is one last chance...Bizarre but resonant science fiction/fantasy blend..

Sarah Ash - Mothmusic

A terrible disease strikes which transforms people into in weird devilish things. A priest is initially overwhelmed but he senses something...