by Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, Stephen Baxter, Lucius Shepard, Ian R. MacLeod, Greg Bear, Connie Willis, John Crowley, Brian Stableford, Ted Chiang, William Sanders, Steven Utley, Molly Gloss, Tony Daniel, Robert Reed, David Marusek, Maureen F. McHugh, Greg Egan, Paul J.
This is a collection of 36 stories ranging from 1981 to 2002 and purporting to represent the best shorts in science fiction in those years. A blurb on the back by GRR Martin says that "if a science fiction fan from 1984 chanced to stumble into a time warp and pop up in the here and now, and wanted t...