Imagine a technology that can change the structure and function of your own body...or that can devour an entire country.

This is nanotechnology -- the creation of self-replicating machines with the capability to build or alter almost any structure, including the human form, by manipulating atoms or molecules -- and it has captured the imaginations of science fiction writers and readers everywhere.

Now these, eleven short tales will capture you...

Contents
ix • Preface (Nanotech) • (1998) • essay by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
1 • Blood Music • (1983) • novelette by Greg Bear
32 • Margin of Error • (1994) • shortstory by Nancy Kress
40 • Axiomatic • (1990) • shortstory by Greg Egan
58 • Remember'd Kisses • (1988) • novelette by Michael F. Flynn
99 • Recording Angel • (1996) • shortstory by Ian McDonald
117 • Sunflowers • (1995) • shortstory by Kathleen Ann Goonan
153 • The Logic Pool • (1994) • shortstory by Stephen Baxter
174 • Any Major Dude • (1991) • shortstory by Paul Di Filippo
203 • We Were Out of Our Minds with Joy • [North American future] • (1995) • novella by David Marusek
274 • Willy in the Nano-Lab • (1998) • poem by Geoffrey A. Landis [as by Geoffrey Landis ]
275 • Further Reading (Nanotech) • (1998) • essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois