Contents:
‘The Children of Winter’ first appeared in Interzone 163, January 2001
‘Thursday’s Child’ first appeared in Spectrum SF 9, October 2002
‘Ascent of Man’ first appeared in Interzone 167, May 2001
‘Ulla, Ulla’ first appeared in The Mammoth Book of Science Fiction, 2001
‘The Kéthani Inheritance’ first appeared in Spectrum SF 7, November 2001
‘Instructions for Surviving the Destruction of Star-Probe X-11-57′ first appeared in Spectrum SF 6, July 2001
‘Eye of the Beholder’ first appeared in Interzone 119, May 1997
‘The Touch of Angels’ is original to the collection.
‘The Spacetime Pit’ (with Stephen Baxter) first appeared in Interzone 107, May 1996
‘Hunting the Slarque’ first appeared in Interzone 141, March 1999