A special 'gender wars' issue in which almost every story delivers...

Greg Egan - The cutie

Lovely role-reversal story in which a desperate Dad gets his wish. Nasty twist at the end.

Karen Joy Fowler - Game night at the Fox & Goose

A lonely pregnant woman goes out to drown her sorrows at a local bar. She meets a stranger...Acerbic take on the gender wars, with a nasty twist.

Phillip Mann - An old-fashioned story

Jody is having problems with his Sythno companion Elizabeth who head butted him without warning. He is attempting to repair her. Then Elizabeth and her Sythno Joseph from next door drop in...Powerful for what is never stated.

Marianne Puxley - Cronus

Rhea (who is pregant) and Tyrell live in a 'Community', scared by tales of life outside where the Greenwomen live. Yet things get worse so Rhea makes a choice...Rather daft twist.

Garry Kilworth - The men's room

A successful engineer who secretly invents a time machine tries to revisit his childhood, but find things different...

Andrew Ferguson - Green-eyed monstera

Vicious little tale about a wife who suspects her husband of cheating and extracts revenge using a house plant...

Brian Stableford - The magic bullet

Biologist Morgan Miller has been working for years researching the genetics of ova production in mice when he is shot and his lab burned down. The twist is extremely clever... ( )