The Lowest Heaven is a new anthology of contemporary science fiction where each story is themed around a body in the Solar System, from the Sun to Halley's Comet. It includes:
- "Golden Apple" by Sophia McDougall (The Sun)
- "A Map of Mercury", by Alastair Reynolds (Mercury)
- "Ashen Light" by Archie Black (Venus)
- "The Krakatoan" by Maria Dahvana Headley (Earth)
- "An account of a voyage from World to World again, by way of the Moon, 1726" by Adam Roberts (The Moon)
- "WWBD" by Simon Morden (Mars)
- "Saga's Children" by E. J. Swift (Ceres)
- "The Jupiter Files" by Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Jupiter)
- "Magnus Lucretius" by Mark Charan Newton (Europa)
- "Air, Water and the Grove" by Kaaron Warren (Saturn)
- "Only Human" by Lavie Tidhar (Titan)
- "Uranus" by Esther Saxey (Uranus)
- "From This Day Forward" by David Bryher (Neptune)
- "We'll Always Be Here" by S. L. Grey (Pluto & Charon)
- "Enyo-Enyo" by Kameron Hurley (Eris)
- "The Comet's Tale" by Matt Jones (Halley's Comet)
- "The Grand Tour" by James Smythe (Voyager I)