First edition, first printing; limited signed. ""First edition"" statement to the copyright page. Limited to five-hundred hand-numbered copies to a printed limitation plate to the front end-paper, and SIGNED to two printed signature pages by all seventeen contributors, comprising thirteen authors, two editors, the introducer, and the jacket illustrator. This is number 208. An anthology of thirteen superior, intelligent, challenging and entertaining speculative fiction stories by excellent writers of their craft including Kim Stanley Robinson, Kit Reed, Paul Di Filippo, Kim Newman, Tony Daniel, Mary Gentle, Gary Kilworth, Michael Bishop, Ian R. MacLeod, Jeff Vandermeer, James Patrick Kelly, Patrick O'Leary, Michael Swanwick, and Peter F. Hamilton. Fine, firm, tight and square in red linen with gilt embossed titles to the spine; in a fine dust jacket with wraparound art by Dominic Harman, with hot-pink and white titles to the front and spine panels. Octavo; 281 pages; plus 4 pages of ads to the rear.