Brian Aldiss - A life of matter and death

Surreal story about an alien 'invasion' by a very odd race...

Brian Aldiss - Dracula unbound

Two segments from a larger work which plays with the Dracula story....

Susan Beetlestone - Heart of Santa Rosa

Santa Rosa is a backwater colony founded by a legendary sailor with an extra hand. However, his descendents share this capacity for extra body parts which brings 'civilisation' of a sort...

Brian Stableford - Minimoments

A night time phonecall wakes a man who discovers something unexpected about reality...

Greg Bear - Heads, Part Two

Mickey Sandoval, a representative of the Sandoval family 'binding multiple' (BM) on the Moon is tricked by the President who manages to to most of the other BM's against its project to store, and possibly communicate with, frozen heads from Earth. The President is also a 'Logopolist', a member of an Earth cult which follows the strange beliefs of its founder. Politics, religion and science are all involved in the climax which leaves Mickey deeply scarred... ( )