Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Mars

NOTE: "Piece is a self-contained extract from..Red Mars"

Two scientists are on a mission on Mars to drop special windmills from their balloon craft to help terra-forming when they find thatbiological materials have added to their payload without their knowledge...But a big storm blows up which which threatens to blow them past rescue...

Ian Watson - Swimming with the salmon

Extremely weird tale of what seems a madman, obsessed with a woman whom he considers a mermaid, with powers over fish.

David Garnet - Off the track

A couple visit an un-named country which is run down after a long war and uses English. They are given a record by a garage hand whose dead twin brother made records...

David Wishart - Maud

Maud is an intelligent android in an alternative 19th century but is not happy with her lot...

Nicolas Royle - The cast

A foot baller in a failing team is suspicious that a team mate is seeing her. Something very strange happens at the next match...

Diane Mapes - She-devil

Strange tale of an unlikely romance with a couple who go to virtual reality experiences, one of whom is a composer... ( )