Richard A. Lovett, “Excellence” (Analog, January-February)

  Sandra McDonald, “Diana Comet” (Strange Horizons, March 2-9)

  Maureen McHugh, “Useless Things” (Eclipse Three)

  Will McIntosh, “Bridesicle” (Asimov’s, January)

  Eugene Mirabelli, “Love in Another Language” (Not One of Us #42)

  Sarah Monette, “White Charles” (Clarkesworld, September)

  James Morrow, “Bigfoot and the Bodhisattva” (Conjunctions 52)

  Shweta Narayan, “Daya and Dharma” (GUD, Spring)

  Charles Oberndorf, “Another Life” (F&SF, October-November)

  Holly Phillips, “Thieves of Silence” (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, July 16)

  Tony Pi, “Come-From-Aways” (On Spec, Spring)

  Steven Popkes, “Two Boys” (Asimov’s, August)

  Tim Pratt, “A Programmatic Approach to Perfect Happiness” (Futurismic, April)

  Tim Pratt, “Unexpected Outcomes” (Interzone, June)

  Tim Pratt, “Another End of the Empire” (Strange Horizons, June 22)

  Tim Pratt, “Silver Linings” (Tor.com, September)

  David Prill, “The Heaven and Hell of Robert Flud” (Poe)

  Robert Reed, “Firehorn” (F&SF, June-July)

  Leonard Richardson, “Let Us Now Praise Awesome Dinosaurs” (Strange Horizons, July 23)

  Madeleine E. Robins, “Writ of Exception” (Lace and Blade 2)

  Justina Robson, “Crackglegrackle” (The New Space Opera 2)

  Mary Rosenblum, “Lion Walk” (Asimov’s, January)

  Mary Rosenblum, “My She” (Federations)

  Mary Rosenblum, “Blood Ice” (Rage of the Behemoth)

  Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling, “Colliding Branes” (Asimov’s, February)

  Kristine Kathryn Rusch, “Broken Windchimes” (Asimov’s, September)

  Patricia Russo, “The Men Burned All the Boats” (Fantasy, February)

  Geoff Ryman, “Blocked” (F&SF, October-November)

  Ken Scholes, “A Weeping Czar Beholds the Fallen Moon” (Tor.com, February)

  Grace Seybold, “Unrest” (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 12)

  Lucius Shepard, “Halloween Town” (F&SF, October-November)

  Delia Sherman, “Wizard’s Apprentice” (Troll’s Eye View)

  Brian Stableford, “The Highway Code” (We Think Therefore We Are)

  Justin Stanchfield, “The Buzz” (Fictitious Force #6)

  Bruce Sterling, “Black Swan” (Interzone, April)

  Charles Stross, “Palimpsest” (Wireless)

  Laura L. Sullivan, “A Man of Kiri Maru” (GUD, Spring)

  Mark Sumner, “St. George and the Antriders” (Black Gate, Spring)

  Rachel Swirsky, “Great Golden Wings” (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, October 22)

  Lavie Tidhar, “The Dying World” (Clarkesworld, April)

  Lavie Tidhar, “The Shangri-La Affair” (Strange Horizons, January 19-26)

  Jeremiah Tolbert, “The Culture Archivist” (Federations)

  Mary Turzillo, “The Sugar” (Sky Whales and Other Wonders)

  Lisa Tuttle “Ragged Claws” (Postscripts #20/21)

  Catherynne M. Valente, “Golubash, or Wine-Blood-War-Elegy” (Federations)

  Elliott Wells, “This Must Be the Place” (Strange Horizons, February 2)

  Chris Willrich, “Sails the Morne” (Asimov’s, June)

  Daniel H. Wilson, “The Nostalgist” (Tor.com, July)

  Robert Charles Wilson, “Utriusque Cosmi” (The New Space Opera 2)

  Paul Witcover, “Everland” (Everland)

  John C. Wright, “One Bright Star to Guide Them” (F&SF, April-May)

  PUBLICATION HISTORY

  “A Story, with Beans” by Steven Gould. © by Steven Gould. Originally published in Analog, May. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Child-Empress of Mars” by Theodora Goss. © by Theodora Goss. Originally published in Interfictions 2. March. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “The Island” by Peter Watts. © by Peter Watts. Originally published in The New Space Opera 2. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “The Logic of the World” by Robert Kelly. © by Robert Kelly. Originally published in Conjunctions 52. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “The Long, Cold Goodbye” by Holly Phillips. © by Holly Phillips. Originally published in Asimov’s, March. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “The Endangered Camp” by Ann Leckie. © by Ann Leckie. Originally published in Clockwork Phoenix 2. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Dragon’s Teeth” by Alex Irvine. © by Alex Irvine. Originally published in F&SF, December. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “As Women Fight” by Sara Genge © by Sara Genge. Originally published in Asimov’s, October-November. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Sylgarmo’s Proclamation” by Lucius Shepard. © by Lucius Shepard. Originally published in Songs of the Dying Earth. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Three Twilight Tales” by Jo Walton. © by Jo Walton. Originally published in Firebirds Rising. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Necroflux Day” by John Meaney. © by John Meaney. Originally published in The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction 3. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “The Persistence of Memory; or, This Space For Sale” by Paul Park. © by Paul Park. Originally published in Postscripts 20/21. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “This Peaceable Land; or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe” by Robert Charles Wilson. © by Robert Charles Wilson. Originally published in Other Earths. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “On the Human Plan” by Jay Lake. © by Jay Lake. Originally published in Lone Star Stories, February. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Technicolor” by John Langan. © by John Langan. Originally published in Poe. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Catalog” by Eugene Mirabelli. © by Eugene Mirabelli. Originally published in F&SF, February. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Crimes and Glory” by Paul McAuley. © by Paul McAuley. Originally published in Subterranean, Spring. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Eros, Philia, Agape” by Rachel Swirsky. © by Rachel Swirsky. Originally published in Tor.com, March. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “A Painter, a Sheep, and a Boa Constrictor” by Nir Yaniv. © by Nir Yaniv. Originally published in Shimmer 10. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Glister” by Dominic Green. © by Dominic Green. Originally published in Interzone, August. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “The Qualia Engine” by Damien Broderick. © by Darmien Broderick. Originally published in Asimov’s, May-June. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew” by Catherynne M. Valente. © by Catherynne M. Valente. Originally published in Clarkesworld Magazine, August. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Wife-Stealing Time” by R. Garcia y Robertson. © by R. Garcia y Robertson. Originally published in Asimov’s, November. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Images of Anna” by Nancy Kress. © by Nancy Kress. Originally published in Fantasy Magazine, September 14. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Mongoose” by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear. © by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear. Originally published in Lovecraft Unbound. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Living Curiousities” by Margo Lanagan. © by Margo Lanagan. Originally published in Sideshow. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “The Death of Sugar Daddy” by Toiya Kirsten Finley. © by Toiya Kirsten Finley. Originally published in Electric Velocipede, Spring. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Secret Identity” by Kelly Link. © by Kelly Link. Originally published in Geektastic. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Bespoke” by Genevieve Valentine. © by Genevieve Valentine. Originally published in Strange Horizons, July 27. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance” by John Kessel. © by John Kessel. Originally published in The New Space Opera 2. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  ABOUT THE EDITOR

  Rich Horton is a software engineer in St. Louis. He is a contributing editor to Locus, for which he does short fiction reviews and occasional book reviews; and to Black Gate, for which he does a continuing series of essays about SF history. He also contributes book reviews to Fantasy Magazine, and to many other publications.

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  FOOTNOTES

  1 A variety of mollusc valued for their succulent flesh. It was once proposed that glace possessed a form of intelligence, this based on the fact that many who consumed them raw reported experiencing poignant emotional states and hearing what seemed to be pleas in an unknown tongue. For this reason, they are now served either fried or broiled. As to the question of their sentience, their severely depleted population prevents a comprehensive study.

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  2 The gid is a hybrid of man, gargoyle, whorl, and leaping insect. In their “newt” stage they are relatively harmless, yet they inspire an atavistic fear. Once they have tasted human blood a metamorphosis occurs within minutes and they acquire mental powers that permit them to dominate lesser minds with ease. The physical changes are, reputedly, also extreme, but this is unproven, since a mere handful of men and women have survived the sight of an adult gid and none have capable of reporting coherently on the particulars. The “newt” gid is copper in color, with black facial markings. As to the adult’s coloration, we have only the word of Cotuim Justo, blind since birth, who claimed that the beast’s colors “burned my eyes.”

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  3 It is something of a euphemism to describe the behavior of the copiropith whelp or imp (the term more commonly used) as “gentle.” After devouring their mother and a majority of their siblings, the litter typically invade the nasal cavities of humans and attach themselves to certain nodes of the nervous system, provoking the victim to grin broadly and to hop and caper about in dervish fashion, all while experiencing terrible pain that results, after some weeks, in death. As adults, however, the whelps acquire an affectionate personality, soft, bluish gray fur, and a pleasing, cuddlesome look. In this form they are greatly prized as pets and believed by some (particularly residents of the Cloudy Isles) to house the souls of the men and women they have killed, and thus are treated as family members.

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