Presents a collection of speculative science fiction tales that envision the future and reimagine the past in settings ranging from the coal mines of China to the edges of frontier space.

"A Tom Doherty Associates Book"--Title page.

The village teacher --The time migration -- 2018-04-01 -- Fire in the earth -- Contraction -- Mirror -- Ode to joy -- Full-spectrum barrage jamming -- Sea of dreams -- Cloud of poems -- The thinker.