The debut of Crank! stunned the science fiction world with its disregard for obsolete notions of genre fiction, instead insisting on highly individual and imaginative fiction of literary distinction. This volume presents the best from Crank!.

Featuring stories from Ursula K. Le Guin, Gene Wolfe, Michael Bishop, Jonathan Lethem, R.A. Lafferty, A.A. Attanasio, Brian Aldiss, Gwyneth Jones, Lisa Tuttle, Robert Devereaux, Karen Joy Fowler, Eliot Fintushel, Carter Scholz.