The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF

This collection of 21 innovative and mind-blowing stories includes contributions from Sci-Fi pioneers such as Stephen Baxter, Robert Reed, J. G. Ballard, Arthur C. Clarke, Alastair Reynolds, and Geoffrey Landis.Contents:Out of the sun / Arthur C. Clarke --The Pevatron rats / Stephen Baxter --The edge of the map / Ian Creasey --Cascade Point / Timothy Zahn --A dance to strange musics / Gregory Benford --Palindromic / Peter Crowther --Castle in the sky / Robert Reed --The hole in the hole / Terry Bisson --Hotrider / Keith Brooke --Mother grasshopper / Michael Swanwick --Waves and smart magma / Paul Di Filippo --The black hole passes / John Varley --The peacock king / Ted White, Larry McCombs --Bridge / James Blish --Anhedonia / Adam Roberts --Tiger burning / Alastair Reynolds --The width of the world / Ian Watson --Our lady of the sauropods / Robert Silverberg --Into the Miranda Rift / G. David Nordley --The rest is speculation / Eric Brown --Vacuum states / Geoffrey A. Landis