Michael Bishop - The Bob Dylan Tambourine Software & Satori Support Services Consortium Ltd.

Biting satirical piece about Bob Dylan discovering something more potent than music, politics or religion: writing software that will connect people with God. Gives an eery foreboding of Internet 'evangelism'...

Paul J. McAuley - Little Ilya and Spider and Box

An archetypal story, in which Little Ilya tries to escape wicked Ilya, aided by her only friend Box, a storyteller, and the enigmatic spacer Spider.

Richard Kadrey - The fire catcher

US military hacker Preston has trouble sleeping because he won World War Three and his wife has left him. Short and extremely bleak.

M. John Harrison - A young man's journey to Viriconium

Set in bleak towns in Northern England, the narrator learns from Mr Ambraysess about the attempts by one Doctor Petromax to reach Viriconium via a mirror in a gents toilet. The seedy real life locations prefigure those in the Viriconium stories, but are much less powerful.

Pamela Zoline - Instructions for exiting this building in case of fire

This one totally bamboozled me. ( )