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 verybest of it that does, with 25 of the finest examples of mind-expandingand awe-inspiring science fiction.The storylines range from a discoveryon the Moon that opens up vistas across all time to a moment in whichdistances across the Earth suddenly increase and people vanish. Theseare tales to take you from the other side of now to the very end of time_ from today_s top-name contributors including Stephen Baxter, AlastairReynolds, Robert Silverberg, Gregory Benford and Robert Reed. This collection of 25 innovative and mind-blowing stories includes contributions from Sci-Fi pioneers such as Stephen Baxter, Robert Reed, J. G. Ballard, Arthur C. Clarke, Alastair Reynolds, and Geoffrey Landis.