Here are 25 stories of science fiction that push the envelope, bythe biggest names in an emerging new crop of high-tech futuristic SF -including Charles Stross, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Peter Hamiltonand Neal Asher. High-tech SF has made a significant comeback in thelast decade, as bestselling authors successfully blend the super-scienceof 'hard science fiction' with real characters in an understandablescenario. It is perhaps a reflection of how technologically controlledour world is that readers increasingly look for science fiction thatconsiders the fates of mankind as a result of increasing scientificdomination. This anthology brings together the most extreme examples ofthe new high-tech, far-future science fiction, pushing the limits waybeyond normal boundaries. The stories include: "A Perpetual War FoughtWithin a Cosmic String", "A Weapon That Could Destroy the Universe", "AMachine That Detects Alternate Worlds and Creates a Choice of Christs","An Immortal Dead Man Sent To The End of the Universe", "Murder inVirtual Reality", "A Spaceship So Large That There is An EntirePlanetary System Within It", and "An Analytical Engine At The End ofTime", and "Encountering the Untouchable."