Introducing fungal life -- Fungal spores -- Hyphae -- Kinship -- The perfect imperfects -- Fruiting bodies -- The Ascomycota. Cup fungi ; Hysterioid fungi ; Flask fungi ; Cleistothecial fungi ; Discolichens ; Mazaedioid fungi ; Truffles ; Laboulbeniomycetes -- The Basidiomycota. Corticioid fungi ; Stereoid fungi ; Polypores ; Boletes ; Agarics ; Cyphelloid fungi ; Chanterelles ; Tooth fungi ; Clubs and corals ; Gasteroid fungi ; Jelly fungi ; Rusts and smuts -- The Zygomycota and other groups -- Fungal ecology. Decomposers ; Decomposers of debris ; Wood-decaying fungi ; Fungi on dung ; Decaying fungi in other strange places ; Mycorrhizal fungi ; Lichenized fungi ; Parasitic fungi -- Fungi in the world. Where fungi grow ; Where nothing grows ; Why we need fungi -- Fungal future.