Table of Contents
Introduction by Jo Walton
Poems
Caesarian
The Second Law
Birds and Bees and That
Succession
Goddess on Our Side
Jo's Trees
Looking Backward on the Year 2000
Fall 1991
The Morlock's Arms
After Burns: 11 September 2002
One for the Carpenter
Scots Poet, Not
Stories
Cydonia
Chapter One: Fake Moon Landing
Chapter Two: Alien Messages
Chapter Three: Face on Mars
Chapter Four: Patriots
Chapter Five: False Past
Chapter Six: The Lone Gunman Theory
Chapter Seven: Black Helicopter
Chapter Eight: All-Seeing Eye
Chapter Nine: Dreamland
Chapter Ten: Men In Black
Chapter Eleven: The Conspiracy Theory
Chapter Twelve: Protocols
The Oort Crowd
Undead Again
Tairlidhe
The Human Front
A Case of Consilience
Con Reports
A Fish Dinner in Helsinki:
'I had seen a better world'
Seeing Mars from Uppsala
Eight Days in Zagreb
Forty Whacks
Space Station Hinckley
About Science Fiction
Libertarianism, the Loony Left and the Secrets of the Illuminati
The Falling Rate of Profit, Red Hordes and Green Slime
Science Fiction, Liberty, and Literature
A Brief Critique of Nineteen Eighty-Four as Science Fiction
Trends in Science Fiction
Utopias
Review of The Encyclopaedia of Fantasy
Review of Whole Wide World
Singularity Skies
Does Science Fiction Have to be about the Present?
The Inhabitants of the Planets and the Bottom of the Sea
Not a Good Word to Say
About Science Fact
Rewriting Humanity
Space
The Scientist's Apprentice
The Land Shall Not Be Sold Forever
Scotland and Europe
The Scottish Revolution
Their Snuff-filled Rooms, and A' That
Islands, Funerals, and the Footnotes of Buckle
The Strange Death of Socialist Scotland
The Earth Question
Scottish Politics
A Hope of Peace is as Good as Any
Another View of Russian Capitalism
The Joy of Sects
The Pro-War Left and the Anti-War Right
Conspiracy in the Shadow of Hierarchy
The Midnight Fathers
A Canticle for Wojtyla
Squibs
2001 and All That
Vietnam War Hero Disappoints War Hawks
Molvania Calls
Free-Market Think-Tanks Out-sourced
