Four excellent stories

Ian Watson - The coming of Vertumnus

An art academic gets invoved in a clash between capitalism and the heirs of the Hapsburgs...

J.G.Ballard - A guide to virtual death

In the form of a TV schedule - my favourite: 4pm Count-Down: contestants count backwards from a million...

Don Webb - Not of this world

A not-so-good artist gets a weird intolerance for water. Weak.

Diane Mapes - The big yellow car

Children playing with a large spool get a fright..too personal a story...

Chris Beckett - The circle of stones

On a strange world with no sun, after a commoration by the old of a past crash landing there, the young plot rebellion...

Paul Di Filippo - Destroy all brains!

The titular film does what it says on the tin..Beware!!

David Redd - The blackness

A woman and a man are alone in the Arctic...or are they? ( )