ISBN 1-85798-281-9 (UK hbk),,, 1-85798-416-1 (UK trade pbk)

Acknowledgements

"The Infinite Assassin" by Greg Egan
(first published in Interzone #48, June 1991)

"The Hundred-Light-Year Diary" by Greg Egan
(first published in Interzone , #55, January 1992)

"Eugene" by Greg Egan
(first published in Interzone , #36, June 1990)

"The Caress" by Greg Egan
(first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine , January 1990)

"Blood Sisters" by Greg Egan
(first published in Interzone , #44, February 1991)

"Axiomatic" by Greg Egan
(first published in Interzone , #41, November 1990)

"The Safe-Deposit Box" by Greg Egan
(first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine , September 1990)

"Seeing" by Greg Egan
(previously unpublished story)

"A Kidnapping" by Greg Egan
(previously unpublished story)

"Learning to Be Me" by Greg Egan
(first published in Interzone , #37, July 1990)

"The Moat" by Greg Egan
(first published in Aurealis , #3, March 1991)

"The Walk" by Greg Egan
(first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine , December 1992)

"The Cutie" by Greg Egan
(first published in Interzone , #29, May/June 1989)

"Into Darkness" by Greg Egan
(first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine , January 1992)

"Appropriate Love" by Greg Egan
(first published in Interzone , #50, August 1991)

"The Moral Virologist" by Greg Egan
(first published in Pulphouse , #8, Summer 1990... reissued in Eidolon , Issue 11...
"What happens when genetic engineering gets in the hands of people with a cause ?" --Anders Sandberg.)

"Closer" by Greg Egan
(first published in Eidolon , #9, Winter 1992... also contained in the anthology Cybersex edited by Richard Glyn Jones, 1996...
"Identity and intimacy can get rather bizarre in a transhuman society." --Anders Sandberg.)

"Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies" by Greg Egan
(first published in Interzone , #61, July 1992)

"From bio-engineering to the wilder shores of physics, from cyberpunk to the electronic frontier...

"Scientists can 'bounce' messages from the future back to the present -- but there's no certainty that they contain the truth.

"Crystalline minds take the place of human brains. But where does the self really lie?

"A man obsessed with having a child does it all by himself with a DIY baby kit...and the results are unlike anything he expected.

"A drug gives addicts the ability to dream of lives in parallel worlds -- and as their addiction worsens, the fabric of this reality weakens...

"Lovers exchange bodies and minds -- but their experiments go way too far.

"That's just a handful of the ideas to be found in Axiomatic . Greg Egan's fiction -- scary, spacey, video-bright -- is cyber-wonderland." [jacket blurb, UK trade pbk, 1995]