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• ix • Introduction: Return to the Centre of the Earth • (2005) • essay by Mike Ashley
• 1 • A Drama on the Railway • (2005) • shortstory by Stephen Baxter
• 15 • Jehan Thun's Quest • (2005) • novelette by Brian Stableford
• 48 • Six Weeks in a Balloon • (2005) • shortstory by Eric Brown
• 59 • Londre au XXIe Siècle • (2005) • shortstory by James Lovegrove
• 74 • Giant Dwarfs • (2005) • novelette by Ian Watson
• 99 • Cliff Rhodes and the Most Important Journey: A Land at the End of the Working Day Story • (2005) • novella by Peter Crowther
• 144 • The True Story of Barbicane's Voyage • (2005) • novelette by Laurent Genefort (trans. of Le véritable voyage de Barbicane 1999)
• 169 • Columbiad • (1996) • shortstory by Stephen Baxter
• 184 • Tableaux • (2005) • novelette by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
• 209 • The Secret of the Nautilus • (2005) • novelette by Michael Mallory
• 230 • Doctor Bull's Intervention • (2005) • novelette by Keith Brooke
• 257 • The Very First Affair • (2005) • novelette by Johan Heliot
• 278 • Eighty Letters, Plus One • (2005) • shortstory by Kevin J. Anderson and Sarah A. Hoyt
• 291 • The Adventurers' League • novelette by Justina Robson
• 315 • Hector Servadac, fils • (2005) • novelette by Adam Roberts
• 344 • The Mysterious Iowans • (2005) • novelette by Paul Di Filippo
• 366 • Old Light • (2005) • shortstory by Tim Lebbon
• 383 • The Selene Gardening Society • (2005) • shortstory by Molly Brown
• 402 • A Matter of Mathematics • (2005) • novelette by Tony Ballantyne
• 424 • The Secret of the Sahara • novelette by Richard A. Lupoff
• 454 • The Golden Quest • (2005) • shortstory by Sharan Newman
• 467 • The True Story of Wilhelm Storitz • (2005) • shortstory by Michel Pagel
• 480 • The Shoal • (2005) • shortstory by Liz Williams