_The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction_ ed. by Mike Ashley
Significantly better than a Mountain Dew commercial. Theoretically the stories are ordered by their extremeness (nonconformity?) but I'm not really sure you can get an objective ranking there. Contains one of the most readable short works by Egan: "Wang's Carpets", which is a nifty translation of the 1960s-style exploration starship stories to a Singular framework.
Significantly better than a Mountain Dew commercial. Theoretically the stories are ordered by their extremeness (nonconformity?) but I'm not really sure you can get an objective ranking there. Contains one of the most readable short works by Egan: "Wang's Carpets", which is a nifty translation of the 1960s-style exploration starship stories to a Singular framework.