The first short story collection in seven years from multiple award-winning author
Ian Watson,
who worked with Stanley Kubrick for a year writing the screen story to the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence, and was the first novelist to write in the Warhammer 40K milieu. This volume gathers together ten stories previously published in
Asimov's
,
Analog
, and elsewhere, along with a brand new novella - one of four tales set in a near future shaped by the Chinese Time Machine.
Contents:
The Chinese Time Machine
1st Trip: Brave New World, by Oscar Wilde
2nd Trip: The Kidnap of Fibonacci
3rd Trip: The Emperor's New Wallpaper
4th Trip: Sherlock Holmes and the Butterfly Effect
(with Cristina Macía)
Hot Gates
Monkey Business
When the Aliens Stop to Bottle
Heinrich Himmler in the Barcelona Hallucination Cell
Clickbeetle
Journey to the Anomaly
The Birth of Venus
About the Author
"The brilliant Ian Watson remains the most stimulating and one of the least comfortable science fiction writers working today. Reading his short fiction reminds us why he is one of the genre's unassailable greats." 
- Adam Roberts