Many readers are attracted to science fiction for that singular moment when a story expands your imagination, enabling you to see something in a new light. This volume contains 25 of the finest examples of mind-expanding and awe-inspiring creativity. The storylines range from a discovery on the Moon that opens up vistas across all time, to a moment in which distances across the Earth suddenly increase and people vanish. These are tales to take you from the other side of now to the very end of time - from today's top-name contributors and including five never-seen-before stories.