Many readers are attracted to science fiction for that singular momentwhen a story expands your imagination, enabling you to see something in anew light. Not all SF works this way! This volume collects the very bestof it that does, with 25 of the finest examples of mind-expanding andawe-inspiring science fiction. The storylines range from a discovery on the Moon that opens up vistasacross all time to a moment in which distances across the Earth suddenlyincrease and people vanish. These are tales to take you from the otherside of now to the very end of time - from today's top-name contributorsincluding Stephen Baxter, Alastair Reynolds, Robert Silverberg, GregoryBenford and Robert Reed.