Comprising 28 stories by some of the world's leading science fiction writers and emerging talents, this anthology takes the reader far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. The authors are: Cory Doctorow, Robert Charles Wilson, Michael Swanwick, Ian McDonald, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Kage Baker, Bruce McAllister, Alastair Reynolds, Jay Lake, Ruth Nestvold, Gregory Benford, Justin Stanchfield, Walter Jon Williams, Greg Van Eekhout, Robert Reed, David D. Levine, Paul J. McAuley, Mary Rosenblum, Daryl Gregory, Jack Skillingstead, Paolo Bacigalupi, Greg Egan, Elizabeth Bear, Sarah Monette, Ken MacLeod, Stephen Baxter, Carolyn Ives Gilman, John Barnes and A.M. Dellamonica
