Introduction / by Karen Joy Fowler

Foreword / by Bruce Sterling

Part 1: The Shaper/Mechanist stories: Swarm

Spider Rose

Cicada queen

Sunken gardens

Twenty evocations

Part 2: Early science fiction and fantasy: Green days in Brunei

Dinner in Audoghast

The compassionate, the digital

Flowers of Edo

The little magic shop

Our neural Chernobyl

We see things differently

Dori Bangs

Part 3: The Leggy Starlitz stories: Hollywood Kremlin

Are you for 86?

The littlest jackal

Part 4: The Chattanooga stories: Deep eddy

Bicycle repairman

Taklamakan

Part V: Later science fiction and fantasy: The sword of Damocles

Maneki Neko

In paradise

The blemmye's strategem

Kiosk.