Unmistakably the finest - Scott Bradfield

Sandra, a disturbed young woman who is deserted by her father and thrown out by her mother, signs up for a church which takes postal donations in return for the promise of luxury items in return. When she dreams she enters a mysterious room containing a wonderful product, and when she awakes that same product is in her flat. But what happiness does this bring her?

Dreamers - Kim Newman

In a future where people 'dream' entertainment in virtual realities, one is being created as the story opens, as a porn actor contributes to a scene in which John F. Kennedy has sex with Marilyn Monroe on his desk in the Whitehouse, just before Oswald shoots him. A humourous tale of petty jealousies, artistic vanities and the perfect murder follows, in which the real author spoofs himself.

Strange memories of death - Philip K. Dick

An apartment block is being sold off to its tenants, but one, a reclusive old woman, refuses to buy. Another tenant reflects on the realities that revolve around her action.

Experiment with time - M.J.Fitzgerald

Time is a persona in this fantasy, in which the central character physically purses Time through various landscapes, all to no avail. Poetic but unengaging.

McGonagall's Lear - Andy Soutter

Three people - the legendary, but awful, poet McGonagall, Cordelia, daughter of McGonagall (not King Lear) and a psychopathic Aaron Presley, underwear fetishist and recently discharged from the US Army, all eventually meet at the bottom of a loch in Scotland, by the remains of Rudolph Hess' Heinkel. A madcap tale, set in a Europe in which Hitler triumphed. ( )

Includes: Strange Memories of Death by Philip K. Dick