The ex-library traces are minimal: 1/8" spinal tilt, small sticker on title-page, 1/2" line on top page-block near spine, very minor traces on endpapers where DJ in cover had been glued to book (it cleaned-up nice.) Tight, corners are NOT bumped, DJ has no tears.

Only 2000 copies were printed.

(Foreword by Stephen Baxter)
The Children of Winter
Thursday's Child
Ascent of Man
Ulla, Ulla
The Kethani Inheritance
Instructions for Surviving the Destruction of Star Probe X-11-57
The Touch of Angels
The Spacetime Pit {w/ Stephen Baxter}
Hunting the Slarque

Original British appearances from 1996 to 2001 - in Interzone (4), Spectrum SF (3), and The Mammoth Book of Science Fiction. "The Touch of Angels" is original to this volume.