An anthology released to raise funds for the NHS and UK Healtcare workers. Fifty-three stories, 253,000 words of fiction, including several pieces that are original to this volume. A treasury of stories from some of the finest writers of science fiction, literary fiction, fantasy, horror, and more.
Introduction by Ian Whates
Last Contact - Stephen Baxter
Slink-Thinking - Frances Hardinge
Gossamer - Ian Whates
The Feather Dress - Lisa Tuttle
The Man Who Swallowed Himself - Chris Beckett
Fat Man in the Bardo - Ken MacLeod
Kings of Eternity - Eric Brown
Muscadet Kiss - Michèle Roberts
Dead Space - George Mann
The Trace - Christopher Priest
Golden Wing, Silver Eye - Cat Hellisen
The Golden Nose - Neil Williamson
On Ilkley Moor - Alison Littlewood
About Helen - Tade Thompson
Iphigenia in Aulis - M.R. Carey
Just Watch Me - Lesley Glaister
The Family Football - Ian R. MacLeod
The Grave-Digger's Tale - Simon Clark
The All-Nighter - Mark Morris
Her Seal Skin Coat - Lauren Beukes
A Conclusion - Paul Cornell
Liberty Bird - Jaine Fenn
The Ki-Anna - Gwyneth Jones
Scienceville - Gary Gibson
The Sphere - Juliet E. McKenna
An Eligible Boy - Ian McDonald
The Quick Child - Jane Rogers
Trademark Bugs: A Legal History - Adam Roberts
Working on the Ward - Tim Pears
During the Dance - Mark Lawrence
Out of the Woods - Ramsey Campbell
Trick of the Light - Tim Lebbon
Roman Games - Anne Nicholls
Digits - Robert Shearman
The Fox Maiden - Priya Sharma
Roads of Silver, Paths of Gold - Emmi Itäranta
All Deaths Well Intention'd - RJ Barker
Epilogue: England, Summer 1558 - Jon Courtenay Grimwood
The Christmas Repentance of the Mole Butcher of Tetbury - Aliya Whiteley
Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations Of The World, Part V: A Voyage To The Island Of The Wolves - Philip Palmer
Barking Mad - Ian Watson
Lady with a Rose - Reggie Oliver
Missing - Blake Morrison
What We Sometimes Do, Without Thinking - Mark West
Events - Stan Nicholls
Wars of Worldcraft - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Fixer, Worker, Singer - Natalia Theodoridou
Witness - Kim Lakin-Smith
Unravel - Ren Warom
Like Clockwork - Tim Major
A Million Reasons Why - Nick Wood
The Road to the Sea - Lavie Tidhar
Ten Love Songs to Change the World - Peter F. Hamilton
About the Authors