Contents (view Concise Listing)

• vii • Introduction: Science Fiction's Phoenix – The Many Lives of New Worlds • (2022) • essay by Mike Ashley
• 3 • The Improbably Complex High-Energy State • (2022) • novelette by Alan Moore
• 41 • The Waiting Place • (2022) • novelette by Lavie Tidhar
• 69 • On the Hillside • (2022) • short story by Robert Edric
• 87 • The White Leopard • (2022) • short story by Michael Swanwick
• 99 • In the House of Unpleasant Voices • (2022) • short story by Paul Park
• 113 • Tell-Tale Tit • (2022) • short story by Margo Lanagan
• 121 • Three Conversations with G.O.D. • (2022) • short story by James Lovegrove
• 135 • Stuff • (2022) • novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
• 165 • A Multiplicity of Phaedra Lament • (2011) • short story by Peter Crowther
• 185 • The Ploughshare and the Storm • (2022) • short story by Gwyneth Jones
• 197 • The Gridge • (2022) • short story by Matt Hill [as by M. T. Hill]
• 217 • Dodging Dementia • (2022) • short story by John Grant
• 237 • Sedition Kitsch Part 1 • (2022) • short story by Steve Aylett
• 241 • Cold Revolution Blues • [The Lightspeed Trilogy] • (2016) • novelette by Ken MacLeod
• 269 • Hot Gates • (2022) • short story by Ian Watson
• 281 • The Wokingham Agreement • [Jerry Cornelius] • (2022) • novelette by Michael Moorcock