Five stories, five times Five science fiction and fantasy themes, each explored five times by five different authors. Twenty-five great authors demonstrating just how varied and interesting SF&F can be, and how each author's style and approach make all the difference. This special Writers' Edition has all the above, plus two extra stories, the original story briefs, and extensive author notes for each story and each brief. 100 pages of extra material specifically intended for writers!

Contents

• Contemporary Fantasy
  • Dreaming in Other Colours - Meryl Stenhouse
  • Letters to the Earth - Caleb Warner
  • The Fourth Pillar Says No - L. Chan
  • Howl at the Moon - T.R. North
  • Kitchen - Vanessa Fogg
  • The Simple Task - Michael Gardner
• Soft Science Fiction
  • Time, The Ever-Rolling Stream - Juliet Kemp
  • Patience - K. G. Anderson
  • Petri Viventum - James Ross
  • The Great Scientist Rivalry on Sourdough - Beth Goder
  • The Visible Spectrum - Matt Thompson
• Other
  • The Fragments of Others - Suzanne J. Willis
  • Between Ashes and Wings - Chanel Earl
  • 1001 - Y. X. Acs
  • Where Art Thou, My Love? - Filip Wiltgren
  • Deus ex Noir - Rhoads Brazos
  • Maps in Our Footsteps, Legend in Our Dreams - Jason Baltazar
• Hard Science Fiction
  • T-Minus - Ian Rennie
  • Countdown - David Hammond
  • One of the Cities - Damien Krsteski
  • In the Absence of Time - Pauline Yates
  • The Long View - Karl Dandenell
• High Fantasy
  • Blood Feud - Paul A. Hamilton
  • Child of Flowers - Sean R. Robinson
  • Tongue of the Chimera - Sandi Leibowitz
  • Song and Sacrifice - Rob Francis
  • The Gentlest River - Karolina Fedyk
• The briefs
  • Contemporary Fantasy - Meryl Stenhouse
  • Soft SF - Beth Goder
  • Other - Y.X.Acs
  • Hard SF - Karl Dandenell
  • High Fantasy - Sean R. Robinson
  • Sample brief - B. Morris Allen