AvolumewrittenashomagetoArthurC.Clarke'sTalesfromtheWhiteHart,featuringoriginalstoriesfrommanyoftoday'stopgenrewriters,includingNeilGaiman,CharlesStross,StephenBaxter,JamesLovegrove,LizWilliams,AdamRoberts,EricBrown,IanWatson,andDavidLangford.
TheFountain:atraditionalLondonpubsituatedinHolborn,justoffChanceryLane,whereMichael,thelandlord,servesexcellentrealalesanddodgyploughman's,ablyassistedbybarmaidsSallyandBogna.
TheFountain,inwhoseParadisebaragroupoffriends-scientists,writersandgenrefans-meetregularlyonaTuesdaynighttoswapanecdotes,revealwondrouseventsfromtheirpast,telltalltales,talkofclassifiedinventionand,maybe,justmaybe,savetheworld...
1.Introduction-PeterWeston
2.NoSmokewithoutFire-IanWhates
3.Transients-StephenBaxter
4.ForeverBlowingBubbles-IanWatson
5.OntheMessdecksofMadness-PaulGrahamRaven
6.TheStoryBug-JamesLovegrove
7."AndWeepLikeAlexander"-NeilGaiman
8.TheGhostintheMachine-ColinBruce
9.TheHiddenDepthsofBogna-LizWilliams
10.ABirdinHand-CharlesStross
11.InPursuitoftheChuchunaa-EricBrown
12.TheCyberseeds-SteveLongworth
13.FeathersoftheDinosaur-HenryGee
14.BookWurms-AndyWest
15.ThePocklingtonPoltergeist-DavidLangford
16.TheLastManinSpace-AndrewJWilson
17.AMultiplicityofPhaedraLament-PeterCrowther
18.TheGirlWiththeWhiteAntTattoo-TomHunter
19.The9,000,000,001stNameofGod-AdamRoberts
20.AbouttheAuthors