A truly excellent issue which contains a variety of strong stories.

David Brin - What continues, what fails...

Captures the wonder of the universe in the far future, following two researchers, one of whom is pregnant, working on black holes...

David Langford - Encounter of another kind

The biter bit! Very funny stoty of a group of UFO cultists who try to convert non-believers with a fake encounter experience...

Francis Amery - Self-sacrifice []NB this is a pseudonym for Brian Stableford]
A cultured man picks up a junkie prostitute for sex - but there is a higher motive...

Molly Brown - Bad timing

Quite the funniest love story ever between time-traveing Alan and long, long suffering Cecily...

Sharon M. Hall - The birth of sons

Very unsettling story about an all-male society...

Alastair Reynolds Reynolds - Enola

Enola is an artificial intelligence, a powerful killing machine, and a survivor of a catastrophic global war. She keeps herself going by assimilating both machines and human memories. As she runs down, her final act bequeaths a future for the humans left alive. ( )