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"The Knacker Man" by Scott Dalrymple + "Sarah's Laugh" by Melissa A Watkins

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"Time Management" by P.A. Cornell + "Empathetic Psychosis" by Justin C. Key

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"Update on Rules for the Spatiotemporal Use of Campus Spaces" by Andrea Kriz + "[Part 2] Six-Gun Vixen and the Machinist of Doom Valley" by Ashok K. Banker

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"Dad Died on Discord" by Andrew Dana Hudson + "[Part 1] Six-Gun Vixen and the Machinist of Doom Valley" by Ashok K. Banker

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"Hell Is Empty" by J.R. Dawson + "Saint Zero of the Hollows and the Eagle Knight" by V.M. Ayala

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"When We Loved Giants" by Sara S. Messenger + "Terms of Enlightenment" by Patrick Hurley

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"An Encounter at the Dawn of the Time War" by JT Petty + "Lotus Dew for the Emperor's Tea" by Vanessa Fogg

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"The Tide Folk" by Jennifer Hudak + "Espie Droger Dreams of War" by Matthew Kressel

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"Eat, Prey, Love..." by Jilly Dreadful + "The Devourers Of War..." by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe

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"Warren's Tentacle" by Susan Palwick + "A Handbook To Spirit-hunting" by Modupeoluwa Shelle

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"The Salt and the Cure" by Rukman Ragas + "Sensor Ghosts" by Deborah L. Davitt

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"The Worldbuilder" by Phoenix Alexander + "Dream Destinations (From the Lost Traveler's Tour Guide)" by Alexander Weinstein

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"Six Sides of a Fairy Tale" by Audrey Zhou + "Death Echoes Overlapping" by Megan Chee

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"A Brief Public Announcement" by Eli Brown + "The Moving Finger" by Adam-Troy Castro

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"Academic Neutrality" by M.R. Robinson + "Hunter, Hunter" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe

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"Bots All The Way Down" by Effie Seiberg + "Where the Chicken-Footed Dwell" by Marisca Pichette

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"Choose Your Own Damnation" by Kehkashan Khalid + "Mother's Hip" by Corey Jae White and Maddison Stoff

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"The Space Between Us" by P.A. Cornell + "Memories of the MindMine" by David Marino

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"HagioClass" by José Pablo Iriarte + "The Hub Living Among the Stars" by Oyedotun Damilola Muees

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"Us, in Another Universe" by A.C. Wise + "Crickets in Lost Light" by Jonathan Olfert

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"You Always Told Her You'd Give Her the World" by Aimee Ogden + "Reality Check" by Nancy Kress

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"The Cold Burning Light of Her" by Sam W. Pisciotta + "Operation: Grapevine" by Joel W.D. Buxton

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"Visible Damage" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman + "How to Build a Homecoming Queen: A Guide by a Bad Asian Girl" by Tina S. Zhu

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"Beneath the Umdlebe Tree (Or: A Vegetable Love Story)" by Modupeoluwa Shelle + "Elegy for Zephyr One" by Gene Doucette

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"How to Setup Your Mourning Robot" by Angela Liu + "In the Zone" by Lisa M. Bradley

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"Thaw" by An Owomoyela + "Drosera regina" by A.L. Goldfuss

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"Dating Fortune" by Sean McMullen + "Everyone Hates the Auditor" by Megan Chee

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"The Porniest Porn in Porntown" by Stephen Graham Jones + "Dirge and Gleam" by Micah Dean Hicks

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"At the Bottom of the Bonfire" by Martin Cahill + "O Mechfighter, O Starsinger" by Osahon Ize-Iyamu

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"City of One" by Stephen S. Power + "Human Voices" by Isabel J. Kim

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"On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting" by Bogi Takács + "The Girlfriend Experience" by C.Z. Tacks

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"The Place I Came To" by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko + "Apeiron" by Cadwell Turnbull

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"Beginning Before and After The End" by Jake Stein + "Last Meal Aboard the Awassa" by Kel Coleman

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"Anti-Capitalism vs. the Man of Flowers" by Naomi Kanakia + "To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter" by V.M. Ayala

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"The Dream Tourists" by Sarah Langan + "Savannah and the Apprentice" by Christopher Rowe

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"Dad went out to get the milk" by Osahon Ize-Iyamu + "Feast of Famine" by Adam-Troy Castro

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"Five Dispatches from Conflict Zone W-924/B..." by David Anaxagoras + "It Might Be He Returns" by Fatima Taqvi

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"Finding Love in a Time Loop: A How-To Guide" by Leah Cypess + "You Knit Me Together in My Mother's Womb" by Paul Crenshaw

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"Un-Pragmagic: A Tyler Moore Retrospective" by Spencer Nitkey + "Domestic Disputes" by Naomi Kanakia

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"How to Win Against the Robots" by Katherine Crighton + "A Dish Best Served Cold..." by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe

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"What Else, What Else, in the Joyous City? " by sadoeuphemist + "The Lord of Mars" by Meghan McCarron

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"All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt" by Marissa Lingen + "A Week at the Raven Feather Salon" by Carrie Vaughn

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"My Mother, the Supervillain" by Benjamin Blattberg + "See Now the Misfortune..." by Lowry Poletti + "When the Faerie King..." by Vanessa Fogg

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"Eyes Grown Thick on the World" by Will McMahon + "The Twenty-One Second God" by Peter Watts

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"The Meaning We Seek" by Nancy Kress + "Ninnagan Says Remember" by Jonathan Olfert

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"Where Are They Now?" by Meg Elison + "Through the Machine" by P. A. Cornell

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"The Temporal Displacement of the Graves" by Russell Nichols + "The Price of Manners" by Martin Cahill

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"Shadows on the Pavement" by R. P. Sand + "Rthing it Up: An Oral History" by Gene Doucette

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"TALK: “The Siren Song of the Otherworld Goggles”" by Dominica Phetteplace + "The Other River" by Jon Lasser

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"Meditations from the Event Horizon" by Deborah L. Davitt + "The Potter, His Daughter, and the Boy..." by Oyedotun Damilola Muees

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"The Price of Miracles" by Nigel Faustino + "Does Harlen Lattner Dream of Infected Sheep? Part II" by Sarah Langan

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"To Navigate the Night" by Rich Larson + "Does Harlen Lattner Dream of Infected Sheep? Part I" by Sarah Langan

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"Instructions for Good Boys on the Interplanetary Expedition" by Rachael K. Jones + "The Lexicon of Lethe" by Sunwoo Jeong

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"The Shift" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman + "Message In a Babel" by Adam-Troy Castro

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"Those Who Seek To Embrace The Sun" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe + "Memories of Temperance" by Anya Ow

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"Pure of Heart" by Jake Kerr + "Dekar Druid and the Infinite Library" by Cadwell Turnbull

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"My Girlfriend Is a Nebula" by David DeGraff + "What We Don’t Know About Angels" by Kristina Ten

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"Books to Take at the End of the World" by Carolyn Ives Gilman + "Some to Cradle, Some to Eat" by Eugenia Triantafyllou

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"Standardized Test" by Seoung Kim + "It Holds Her in the Palm of One Hand (Part 2)" by Lowry Poletti

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"An Omodest Proposal" by Andrew Dana Hudson + "It Holds Her in the Palm of One Hand (Part 1)" by Lowry Poletti

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"After the God Has Moved On" by Kate Elliott + "Chickenfoot Soup" by Marika Bailey

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"I Eat The Sky For Us" by Vijayalaxmi Samal + "Dyson Spheres of the Vaba Cluster" by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko

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"The Exquisite Pull of Relentless Desire" by Will McMahon + "Bone And Marrow, Woven Into Song" by Neon Yang

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"A Heap of Petrified Gods" by Adelehin Ijasan + "Tell Them A Story To Teach Them Kindness" by B. Pladek

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"Three Birds That Came Out of Grayson Huff..." by David Anaxagoras + "Get Hyped!" by Gene Doucette

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"Sleeping Beauty and the Restless Realm" by Lincoln Michel + "The Godhood of Ima Day" by Cressida Blake Roe +" What We Plan To Do To You" by Adam-Troy Castro

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"Inside the House of Wisdom" by Tamara Masri + "Ol' Big Head" by Melissa A. Watkins

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"Ancestor Code Error" by Ai Jiang + "The Ones Who Come At Last" by P.H. Lee

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"The Last Word" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe + "Antyesti for a Dead Ganesa (Pt 2)" by Ashok K. Banker

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"The Oracular Manifestation of Human Consciousness..." by Aimee Ogden + "We Will Bring Siege..." by Hammond Diehl

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"Babywings" by Isabel Cañas + "Antyesti for a Dead Ganesa (Pt 1)" Ashok K. Banker

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Philip Gelatt and JT Petty | Sully the God

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Russell Nichols | Autonomy of a Murder

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Kenneth Schneyer | Winding Sheets

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"The Life You've Given Me, Rusty" by P.A. Cornell + "Hot Hearts" by Lyndsie Manusos

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"Zekelo's Barterhouse & Emporium" by Patrick Hurley + "Caesura" by Ashlee Lhamon

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Ai Jiang | Ashes like the Leaves of Tea, Lava like Honey

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Jae Steinbacher | The Ex Hex

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Sagan Yee | Two Motes in the Zeugma Dark

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"GaaS" by Meg Elison + "The Mote in Bird's Eye, or Note Attached to a Frozen Corpse Retrieved from Deep Space" by Jon Lasser

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Osahon Ize-Iyamu | We the People Excluding I

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Gabriela Santiago | Reconstructing “The Goldenrod Conspiracy,” Edina Room, Saturday 2:30-3:30

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"The Terrible Secret of The Immortal Bards" by Adam-Troy Castro + "A Superior Knot" by Ash Huang

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Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe | Child of the River

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Archita Mittra | The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strain’d

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"Resistance" by Cat Rambo + "Under the Skin" by Deborah L. Davitt

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Dominique Dickey | Look at the Moon

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Richard Thomas | The Darkness Between the Stars

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"Mud Maidens Rise" by K.A. Wiggins + "What's in a Name" by Matthew Hughes

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Carrie Vaughn | Between Above and Below

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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko | The Heist for the Soul of Humanity

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Vanessa Fogg | The Red Queen’s Heart

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"The Only Writing Advice You'll Ever Need to Survive Eldritch Horrors" by Aimee Picchi + "The Aliens Said They Want to Party" by Joel William David Buxton

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"Songs of the Sorrow of Thorns" by Amayah Perveen + "A Guide on How to meet the Deity of Many Faces" by Oyedotun Damilola Muees

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Dominique Dickey | The Last Lucid Day

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Oyedotun Damilola Muees | Warning Notes from an Annihilator Machine

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Shanna Germain | The Weight of Salt

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Dominica Phetteplace | The Help Hotline

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Deborah L. Davitt | In the Hands of the Mountain God

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Andrea Kriz | Udo Gehler and the Virgin Bitch of the Resistance

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Megan Chee | An Otherworldly Cat Tells You the Secrets of the Universe

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dave ring | The Waking Sleep of a Seething Wound

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Varsha Dinesh | Sparrow and the Parasol

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Ash Howell | Chaos Theory

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P H Lee | Richard Nixon and the Princess of the Crows

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Nisi Shawl | Over a Long Time Ago

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Marissa Lingen | And the Dreams That You Dare to Dream

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Stephen Geigen-Miller | The Last Thing They See Is Laika

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Ben Peek | Exit Interview

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Caroline M. Yoachim | We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read

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Rory Harper | Done Deal

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Rich Larson | Limping Toward Sunrise

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Vandana Singh | Travelers’ Tales from the Ends of the World

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Susan Palwick | Mother's Day, After Everything

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David Marino | Salemo

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David Anaxagoras | Under a Star, Bright as Morning

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Modupeoluwa Shelle | How to Know Your Father Is a God

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Endria Isa Richardson | A Pedra

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Mitchell Shanklin | a testament to indirection, an enigma, the sun above

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Marissa Lingen | Islands of Stability

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Sharang Biswas | Season of Weddings

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Adam-Troy Castro | The Three Thousand, Four Hundred Twenty-Third Law of Robotics

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P H Lee | Only Some of True Love's Miracles

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Angela Liu | An Incomplete Body Has No Answers

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Alex Irvine | Kopki and the Fish

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Will McMahon | Fragments of a Symbiotic Life

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Shingai Njeri Kagunda | Let the Star Explode

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Phoebe Barton | But From Thine Eyes My Knowledge I Derive

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KT Bryski | An Elegy for the Former Things

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Wen-yi Lee | What Becomes of Curious Minds

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Christopher Rowe | The Pearl Captain

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Everdeen Mason | Scarlett

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Mari Ness | Further Examination and Capture of Candle Skulls Associated with the Baba Yaga

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Stewart C Baker | Companion Animals in Mahō Shōjo Kira Kira Sunlight

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P H Lee | A Sojourn in the Fifth City

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Thomas Ha | To Be a Happy Man

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David Anaxagoras | We Shall Not Be Bitter at the End of the World

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Aimee Ogden | Night Desk Duty at the Infinite Paradox Hotel

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Adam-Troy Castro | Farewell to Faust

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Lowry Poletti | In the Tree’s Hollow, a Doe

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Ben Peek | Shadow Films

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Rachael K. Jones | Five Views of the Planet Tartarus

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Sloane Leong | A Saint Between the Teeth

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A.T. Greenblatt | Mindfulness and the Machine

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Adam-Troy Castro | Seed

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Carlie St. George | We'll Never Die in the Woods

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D. Thomas Minton | Carbon Zero

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Martin Cahill | The Moment Before the Moment

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Regina Kanyu Wang (translated by Rebecca F. Kuang) | A Record of Lost Time

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Osahon Ize-Iyamu | Last Ritual of the Smoke Eaters

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MKRNYILGLD | The CRISPR Cookbook (Chapter Two): A Guide to Biohacking Your Own Eggs into Weapons of Destruction, to Be Forcibly Implanted into One Patriarchist at a Time

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A.L. Goldfuss | Where the God-Knives Tread (Part 2 of 2)

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A.L. Goldfuss | Where the God-Knives Tread (Part 1 of 2)

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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu | His Thing

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John Kessel & Bruce Sterling | Money in the Bank

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Lowry Poletti | In the Nest Beneath the Mountain-Tree, Your Sisters Dance

157

Sloane Leone | The Blade and the Bloodwright

158

Isha Karki | Muna in Barish

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JB Park | Six Months After All Life on Titan Died

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Deborah L. Davitt | Philoctetes in Kabul

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Dominique Dickey | Spaceship Joyride

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Timothy Mudie | Blood For a Stranger

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Kat Howard | One Heart, Lost and Found

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Amanda Helms | The House, the Witch, and Sugarcane Stalks

165

Brian K. Hudson | Virtually Cherokee

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Benjamin Peek | The Ministry of Saturn

167

Daniel H. Wilson | Crystalline

168

Sam J. Miller | His Guns Could Not Protect Him

169

Carrie Vaughn | Learning Letters

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Jendayi Brooks-Flemister | From the Largest Crater

171

Scott Edelman | A Man Walks Into a Bar: In Which More Than Four Decades After My Father’s Reluctant Night of Darts on West 54th Street I Finally Understand What Needs to Be Done

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Aimee Ogden | Mad Honey

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L.D. Lewis | Last Stand of the E. 12th St. Pirates

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Kristina Ten | The Noon Witch Goes to Sound Planet

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Tania Fordwalker | Beyond the Shore

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Debbie Urbanski | The Dirty Golden Yellow House

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Gene Doucette | Primordial Soup and Salad

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Martin Cahill | Her Five Farewells

179

MKRNYILGLD | The CRISPR Cookbook: A Guide to Biohacking Your Own Abortion in a Post-Roe World

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Tobi Ogundiran | The Clockmaker and His Daughter

181

Adam-Troy Castro | My Future Self, Refused

182

Micah Dean Hicks | Hungry as the Mirror Bright

183

Peter Watts | Critical Mass

184

Jo Miles | Scientists Confirm: There’s a Black Hole in the Center of Your Heart

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Susan Palwick | Picnic, with Monster

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Lina Rather | The Cheesemaker and the Undying King

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Grace Chan | Nobody Ever Goes Home to Zhenzhu

188

Leah Cypess | The Fairy Godmother Advice Column

189

Sandra McDonald | Advice from the Civil Temporal Defense League

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Julianna Baggott | The Historiography of Loss

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Shiv Ramdas | Bhatia, P.I.

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P H Lee | The Honest Fox, or, A Truth Shared is Not a Truth Lost

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Isabel J. Kim | Plausible Realities, Improbable Dreams

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Vanessa Fogg | An Address to the Newest Disciples of the Lost Words

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Maria Dong | In the Beginning of Me, I Was a Bird

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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko | Red is Our Country

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Donyae Coles | When Sri Left the Ruined City

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Timi Odueso | Cloudgazer

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Stephen Graham Jones | I Was a Teenage Space Jockey

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Coral Alejandra Moore | The Right Dragon

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Gene Doucette | Memoranda from the End of the World

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Adam R. Shannon | It Begins to Snow

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Adam-Troy Castro | Judi

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Isabel Cañas | My Sister is a Scorpion

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Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas | Before the Haze Devours You

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Lulu Kadhim | Amber Dark and Sickly Sweet

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Everdeen Mason | Miss the Zen, but Miss You More

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Endria Isa Richardson | Do Nothing

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Adam-Troy Castro | A Tableau of Things That Are

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Kristina Ten | Bones in It

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Gene Doucette | Hypnopompic Circumstance

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Genevieve Valentine | Blood, Ash, Braids

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An Owomoyela | The Equations of the Dead

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Sarah Grey | Brightly, Undiminished

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Claire Wrenwood | Homecoming

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Alexander Weinstein | Destinations of Beauty

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Phoebe Barton | The Mathematics of Fairyland

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D. Thomas Minton | The Memory Plague

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Adam-Troy Castro | Answering the Questions You Might Have About the Kharbat

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P H Lee | Ann-of-Rags

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Andrew Dana Hudson | Your Mind is the Superfund Site

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Kat Howard | The Lachrymist

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Gene Doucette | Schrödinger’s Catastrophe [Part 2]

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Gene Doucette | Schrödinger’s Catastrophe [Part 1]

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Naomi Kanakia | Everquest

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Jenny Rae Rappaport | Everything and Nothing

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Caroline M. Yoachim | The Shadow Prisoner’s Dilemma

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Stephanie Malia Morris | Forty Acres and a Mule

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Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam | Entanglement

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Karen Joy Fowler | Persephone of the Crows

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Caroline M. Yoachim | Shadow Prisons of the Mind

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Adam-Troy Castro | The Author’s Wife vs. the Giant Robot

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Katherine Crighton | Sing in Me, Muse

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KT Bryski | The Bone-Stag Walks

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Eden Royce | Miss Beulah’s Braiding and Life Change Salon

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Caroline M. Yoachim | The Shadow Prison Experiment

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Ray Nayler | The Swallows of the Storm

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Mari Ness | Great Gerta and the Mermaid

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Adam-Troy Castro | The End of the World Measured in Values of N

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Kristina Ten | Baba Yaga and the Seven Hills

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Em North | Real Animals

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Benjamin Peek | Refuge

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Marie Vibbert | Single Malt Spacecraft

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Julianna Baggott | The Postictal State of Divine Love

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Alexander Weinstein | Destinations of Love

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Ada Hoffmann | Melting Like Metal

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Millie Ho | The Fenghuang

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Adam-Troy Castro | The Time Traveler’s Advice to the Lovelorn

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Rati Mehrotra | The Witch Speaks

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Andrew Dana Hudson | Voice of Their Generation

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Celeste Rita Baker | Glass Bottle Dancer

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Veronica Roth | The Least of These

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Tahmeed Shafiq | Love and Marriage in the Hexasun Lands

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Adam-Troy Castro | Many Happy Returns

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Kristina Ten | Tend to Me

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Russell Nichols | Giant Steps

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JT Petty | The Gamecocks

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Alexander Weinstein | Toxic Destinations

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Theodora Goss | A Statement in the Case

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Kij Johnson | Noah’s Raven

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N.K. Jemisin | The Ones Who Stay and Fight

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J.R. Dawson | She’d Never Had a Name Before

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Alexander Weinstein | Destinations of Joy

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Kij Johnson | Story Kit

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Matthew Baker | A Bad Day in Utopia

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Cat Rambo | The Silent Familiar

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T.L. Huchu | Njuzu

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KT Bryski | The Path of Pins, the Path of Needles

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Adam-Troy Castro | Eros Pratfalled, Or, Adrift in the Cosmos With Lasagna and Mary Steenburgen

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Melissa Marr | Knee Deep in the Sea

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Dominica Phetteplace | Her Appetite, His Heart

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Yoon Ha Lee | The Second-Last Client

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Ray Nayler | The Death of Fire Station 10

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Isabel Yap | Windrose in Scarlet

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Eli Brown | Nesting Habits of Enceladan Jade Beetles

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E. Lily Yu | The Valley of Wounded Deer

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Jenny Rae Rappaport | The Answer That You Are Seeking

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Seanan McGuire | Hello, Hello

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Micah Dean Hicks | Flight of the Crow Boys

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Brooke Bolander | A Bird, a Song, a Revolution

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Cassandra Khaw | A Leash of Foxes, Their Stories Like Barter

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Kendra Fortmeyer | No Matter

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Scott Sigler | The Final Blow

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Brenda Peynado | The Rock Eaters

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Senaa Ahmad | Ahura Yazda, the Great Extraordinary

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Andrew Penn Romine | Miles and Miles and Miles

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Karen Lord | The Mysteries

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Micah Dean Hicks | Song Beneath the City

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Yoon Ha Lee | Warhosts

290

Ellen Kushner | When Two Swordsmen Meet

291

Isabel Cañas | The Weight of a Thousand Needles

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Deji Bryce Olukotun | Between the Dark and the Dark

293

Adam-Troy Castro | The Minor Superhero, at Home after His Series Ends

294

Max Gladstone | The Iron Man

295

Rati Mehrotra | This Way to Paradise

296

Kathleen Kayembe | The Ocean That Fades Into Sky

297

Shweta Adhyam | A Conch-Shell’s Notes

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Matthew Corradi | Gundark Island, or, Tars Tarkas Needs Your Help

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Ashok K. Banker | The Seeds of War

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Caroline M. Yoachim | The Archronology of Love

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Woody Dismukes | My Children’s Home

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Ashok K. Banker | A Hundred Thousand Arrows

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Carolyn Ives Gilman | On the Shores of Ligeia

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Maria Romasco-Moore | Self-Storage Starts with the Heart

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Carrie Vaughn | Marlowe and Harry and the Disinclined Laboratory

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Ashok K. Banker | The Terrible Oath

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KT Bryski | Ti-Jean’s Last Adventure, as Told to Raccoon

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Matthew Baker | Life Sentence

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Meg Elison | Endor House

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Tony Ballantyne | Midway

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Ashok K. Banker | Son of Water and Fire

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor | With Teeth Unmake the Sun

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Seanan McGuire | Under the Sea of Stars

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Shaenon K. Garrity | Grandma Novak’s Famous Nut Roll

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Lizz Huerta | Mouths

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Ashok K. Banker | A Love Story Written on Water

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Stephen Graham Jones | Moonboys

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Matthew Hughes | Hapthorn’s Last Case

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Theodore McCombs | Talk to Your Children About Two-Tongued Jeremy

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Theodora Goss | Queen Lily

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Mel Kassel | Ten Deals with the Indigo Snake

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Molly Tanzer | The Real You™

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Cameron Van Sant | Super-Luminous Spiral

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Dale Bailey | The Horror of Party Beach

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Maria Dahvana Headley | You Pretend Like You Never Met Me, and I’ll Pretend Like I Never Met You

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Yoon Ha Lee | The Coin of Heart’s Desire

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Adam-Troy Castro | The Last to Matter

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Cadwell Turnbull | Jump

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Vylar Kaftan | Her Monster, Whom She Loved

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Kate Elliott | A Compendium of Architecture and the Science of Building

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Alex Irvine | The Atonement Path

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Manuel Gonzales | Scavenge, Rustic Hounds!

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Sarah Grey | A Bond as Deep as Starlit Seas

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Kyle Muntz | Wild Bill’s Last Stand

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Adam-Troy Castro | Greetings, Humanity! Welcome To Your Choice Of Species!

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G.V. Anderson | Waterbirds

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James Beamon | A Song of Home, the Organ Grinds

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Emma Törzs | From the Root

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Lina Rather | A Pilgrim’s Guide to the Lighthouse of Quvenle the Seer

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Ashok K. Banker | The Quiltbag

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor | I Sing Against the Silent Sun

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Jane Lindskold | A Green Moon Problem

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Kodiak Julian | Our Side of the Door

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Carolyn Ives Gilman | We Will Be All Right

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Martin Cahill | Godmeat

346

Steven Barnes | Mozart on the Kalahari

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Timothy Mudie | The Elephants’ Crematorium

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Adam-Troy Castro | A Place Without Portals

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Will McIntosh | What Is Eve?

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Cassandra Khaw | You Do Nothing But Freefall

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Ken Liu | Cosmic Spring

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Beesan Odeh | Al-Kahf (الكهف)

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Bryan Camp | The Independence Patch

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Ashok K. Banker | The Goddess Has Many Faces

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Naomi Kanakia | A Coward’s Death

356

Bogi Takács | Four-Point Affective Calibration

357

Cassandra Khaw | The Quiet Like a Homecoming

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Sarah Pinsker | The Court Magician

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Susan Jane Bigelow | The Eyes of the Flood

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José Pablo Iriarte | The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births

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Adam-Troy Castro | The Streets of Babel

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Mari Ness | You Will Never Know What Opens

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Cadwell Turnbull | A Third of the Stars of Heaven

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor | The House at the End of the Lane Is Dreaming

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Rachael K. Jones | The Greatest One-Star Restaurant in the Whole Quadrant

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Charlie Jane Anders | Cake Baby (A Kango and Sharon Adventure)

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Max Wynne | A Wound Like an Unplowed Field

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Ashok K. Banker | A Vortal in Midtown

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Kathleen Kayembe | The Faerie Tree

370

Adam-Troy Castro | What I Told My Little Girl About the Aliens Preparing to Grind Us Into Hamburgers

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Jeremiah Tolbert | The Dragon of Dread Peak (Part 2)

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Jeremiah Tolbert | The Dragon of Dread Peak (Part 1)

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor | Longing for Stars Once Lost

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Giovanni De Feo | Ugo

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Tony Ballantyne | A Pound of Darkness, a Quarter of Dreams

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Timothy Mudie | An Ever-Expanding Flash of Light

377

Jaymee Goh | The Last Cheng Beng Gift

378

Bruce McAllister | Ink

379

Christopher East | An Inflexible Truth

380

Susan Palwick | The Shining Hills

381

Ashok K. Banker | Tongue

382

Debbie Urbanski | How to Find a Portal

383

E. Catherine Tobler | Mix Tapes From Dead Boys

384

Alvaro Zinos-Amaro | A Touch of Heart

385

John Grant | The Law of Conservation of Data

386

Matthew Kressel | Love Engine Optimization

387

Elizabeth Bear | The Heart’s Filthy Lesson

388

Scott Dalrymple | Marcel Proust, Incorporated

389

Shweta Narayan | World of the Three

390

Susan Jane Bigelow | The Heart’s Cartography

391

Kendra Fortmeyer | Octopus vs. Bear

392

Bruce McAllister | This Is for You

393

Adam-Troy Castro | James, In the Golden Sunlight of the Hereafter

394

Jess Barber | Maybe Look Up

395

Lina Rather | Seven Permutations of My Daughter

396

Susan Palwick | Remote Presence

397

Violet Allen | Infinite Love Engine

398

Greg Kurzawa | Soccer Fields and Frozen Lakes

399

Adam-Troy Castro | Death Every Seventy-Two Minutes

400

Marta Randall | The Stone Lover

401

Indrapramit Das | The Worldless

402

Jack Skillingstead | The Last Garden

403

Ashok K. Banker | Six-Gun Vixen and the Dead Coon Trashgang

404

Merc Fenn Wolfmoor | Later, Let’s Tear Up The Inner Sanctum

405

Kelly Barnhill | Probably Still the Chosen One

406

Molly Tanzer | Nine-Tenths of the Law

407

Jeremiah Tolbert | The West Topeka Triangle

408

Adam-Troy Castro | The Whole Crew Hates Me

409

Kat Howard | Seven Salt Tears

410

Charles Payseur | The Death of Paul Bunyan

411

Violet Allen | The Venus Effect

412

Carlie St. George | Every Day Is the Full Moon

413

Rich Larson | The Cyborg, the Tinman, the Merchant of Death

414

Helena Bell | I’ve Come to Marry the Princess

415

Alyssa Wong | Natural Skin

416

J.B. Park | Shooting Gallery

417

Chris Kluwe | Dinosaur Killers

418

Mary Anne Mohanraj | Plea

419

Kat Howard | The Key to St. Medusa’s

420

Stephen S. Power | Fade To Red: Three Interviews About Sebold’s Mars Trilogy

421

Jeremiah Tolbert | The Cavern of the Screaming Eye

422

An Owomoyela | Unauthorized Access

423

Jaymee Goh | Crocodile Tears

424

Sean Williams | The Lives of Riley

425

Maria Dahvana Headley | See The Unseeable, Know The Unknowable

426

Tristina Wright | The Siren Son

427

Jeremiah Tolbert | Taste the Singularity at the Food Truck Circus

428

Adam-Troy Castro | The Assassin’s Secret

429

Mercurio D. Rivera | Those Brighter Stars

430

Jilly Dreadful | 5×5

431

Kenneth Schneyer | Some Pebbles in the Palm

432

Ted Kosmatka | The One Who Isn’t

433

Rochita Loenen-Ruiz | Magnifica Angelica Superable

434

Vandana Singh | Delhi

435

Steven Barnes | Fifty Shades of Grays

436

Terence Taylor | Wilson’s Singularity

437

Sofia Samatar | The Red Thread

438

John Chu | Double Time

439

Kevin Jared Hosein | Hiranyagarbha

440

Nick T. Chan | Salto Mortal

441

Karin Lowachee | A Good Home

442

Wole Talabi | Wednesday’s Story

443

Mari Ness | Deathlight

444

Seanan McGuire | The Jaws That Bite, The Claws That Catch

445

An Owomoyela | Three Points Masculine

446

Matthew Bailey | The Birth Will Take Place on a Mutually Acceptable Research Vessel

447

Rudy Rucker | The Knobby Giraffe

448

Carrie Vaughn | Origin Story

449

Nghi Vo | Dragon Brides

450

Marie Vibbert | Michael Doesn’t Hate His Mother

451

Craig DeLancey | RedKing

452

Rich Larson | Sparks Fly

453

Caroline M. Yoachim | Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station | Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0

454

Karin Tidbeck | Starfish

455

Sarah Pinsker | Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea

456

Jeremiah Tolbert | Not by Wardrobe, Tornado, or Looking Glass

457

Rachael K. Jones | Charlotte Incorporated

458

Keith Brooke | Beyond the Heliopause

459

Kat Howard | Maiden, Hunter, Beast

460

JY Yang | Secondhand Bodies

461

Will McIntosh | The Savannah Liars Tour

462

Jay Lake | Ex Libris Noctis

463

Aidan Doyle | Beneath the Silent Stars

464

Rachel Swirsky | Tea Time

465

Merc Fenn Wolfmoor | Tomorrow When We See the Sun

466

Kameron Hurley | The Light Brigade

467

Toh EnJoe | Printable

468

Helena Bell | When We Were Giants

469

Naomi Kanakia | Here is My Thinking on a Situation That Affects Us All

470

Nike Sulway | The Karen Joy Fowler Book Club

471

Gregory Benford | Time Shards

472

Kevin Brockmeier | The Invention of Separate People

473

Maria Dahvana Headley | Solder and Seam

474

Heather Lindsley | Werewolf Loves Mermaid

475

Megan Arkenberg | All in a Hot and Copper Sky

476

Sean McMullen | The Ninth Seduction

477

Caroline M. Yoachim | Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World

478

Sam J. Miller | Ghosts of Home

479

Sarah Pinsker | And We Were Left Darkling

480

Genevieve Valentine | Given the Advantage of the Blade

481

Chen Qiufan | The Smog Society

482

Taiyo Fujii | Violation of the TrueNet Security Act

483

Andrea Hairston | Saltwater Railroad (Part 2)

484

Andrea Hairston | Saltwater Railroad (Part 1)

485

Carrie Vaughn | Crazy Rhythm

486

AMJ Hudson | Red Run

487

Amal El-Mohtar | Madeleine

488

Chaz Brenchley | The Astrakhan, the Homburg, and the Red Red Coal

489

K.M. Szpara | Nothing is Pixels Here

490

RJ Edwards | Black Holes

491

E. Saxey | Melioration

492

John Chu | 勢孤取和 (Influence Isolated, Make Peace)

493

Kate M. Galey | Emergency Repair

494

Matthew Hughes | The Blood of a Dragon

495

Seanan McGuire | The Myth of Rain

496

Annie Bellet | Goodnight Earth

497

Merrie Haskell | Sun’s East, Moon’s West

498

Dale Bailey | The Ministry of the Eye

499

Jason Gurley | Quiet Town

500

Violet Allen | We’ll Be Together Forever

501

Kat Howard | The Universe, Sung in Stars

502

Ursula K. Le Guin | The New Atlantis

503

Cat Sparks | Hot Rods

504

Matthew Hughes | A Face of Black Iron

505

Linda Nagata | The Way Home

506

David Barr Kirtley | Veil of Ignorance

507

Adam-Troy Castro | Cerile and the Journeyer

508

Maria Dahvana Headley | And the Winners Will Be Swept Out to Sea

509

Brooke Bolander | And You Shall Know Her By The Trail Of Dead

510

Jeremiah Tolbert | Men of Unborrowed Vision

511

Matthew Hughes | The Archon

512

Aliette de Bodard | The Lonely Heart

513

Theodora Goss | Beautiful Boys

514

Damien Angelica Walters | A Lie You Give, and Thus I Take

515

Vandana Singh | Wake-Rider

516

Nik Houser | The Drawstring Detective

517

Shale Nelson | Pay Phobetor

518

Annalee Newitz | Drones Don’t Kill People

519

Matthew Hughes | Enter Saunterance

520

Kat Howard | A Flock of Grief by Kat Howard

521

Sunny Moraine | What Glistens Back

522

Megan Kurashige | The Quality of Descent by Megan Kurashige (narrated by Stefan Rudnicki)

523

Marie Vibbert | Jupiter Wrestlerama

524

Steve Hockensmith | The Herd

525

Daniel José Older | Dust

526

Sam J. Miller | We Are the Cloud

527

Matthew Hughes | Under the Scab

528

Saundra Mitchell | Starfall

529

Sarah Pinsker | No Lonely Seafarer

530

Kat Howard | A Meaningful Exchange

531

E. Catherine Tobler | A Box, a Pocket, a Spaceman

532

Tahmeed Shafiq | The Djinn Who Sought To Kill The Sun

533

An Owomoyela | Undermarket Data

534

Emma Bull | De La Tierra

535

Howard Waldrop | All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past

536

Theodora Goss | Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology

537

Adam-Troy Castro | The New Provisions

538

Tananarive Due | Like Daughter

539

Heather Clitheroe | Cuts Both Ways

540

Rhonda Eikamp | The Case of the Passionless Bees

541

Carrie Vaughn | Salvage

542

N.K. Jemisin | Walking Awake

543

James Tiptree, Jr. | Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death

544

Seanan McGuire | Each to Each

545

Kris Millering | A Word Shaped Like Bones

546

Sandra McDonald | Selfie

547

Fred Van Lente | Willful Weapon

548

Rajan Khanna | Second Hand

549

Seth Dickinson | A Tank Only Fears Four Things

550

Thomas Olde Heuvelt | The Day the World Turned Upside Down

551

Shaenon K. Garrity | Francisca Montoya’s Almanac of Things That Can Kill You

552

Linda Nagata | Codename: Delphi

553

Carmen Maria Machado | Observations About Eggs from the Man Sitting Next to Me on a Flight from Chicago, Illinois to Cedar Rapids, Iowa

554

RoboNinja | The Legend of RoboNinja

555

Matthew Hughes | Phalloon the Illimitable

556

Chen Qiufan | The Mao Ghost

557

Sofia Samatar | How to Get Back to the Forest

558

Kat Howard | A Different Fate

559

Ken Liu | None Owns the Air

560

Carrie Vaughn | Harry and Marlowe and the Intrigues at the Aetherian Exhibition

561

Sunny Moraine | So Sharp That Blood Must Flow

562

Jess Barber | Coma Kings

563

Adam-Troy Castro | The Thing About Shapes to Come

564

Ursula K. Le Guin | Elementals

565

Terry Bisson | Bears Discover Fire

566

Jeremiah Tolbert | In the Dying Light, We Saw a Shape

567

William Browning Spencer | The Foster Child

568

Maureen F. McHugh | Dead Fads

569

James Patrick Kelly | Miss Nobody Never Was

570

Hao Jingfang | Invisible Planets

571

James Stoddard | The Battle of York

572

Ian McDonald | Tonight We Fly

573

Kelly Barnhill | The Insect and the Astronomer: A Love Story

574

Sean Williams | Death and the Hobbyist

575

Ken Liu | Ghost Days

576

Charlie Jane Anders | The Master Conjurer

577

Dylan Otto Krider | The Five Deaths of Marvin Dimitri

578

Keffy R. M. Kehrli | HELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!!

579

Matthew Hughes | And Then Some

580

Will McIntosh | Dry Bite

581

Lisa Tuttle | Ragged Claws

582

Seanan McGuire | Homecoming

583

Gene Wolfe | Suzanne Delage

584

Sean Williams | Face Value

585

Cory Skerry | Breathless in the Deep

586

Ken Liu | The Litigation Master and the Monkey King

587

Yoon Ha Lee | The Knight of Chains, the Deuce of Stars

588

Ursula K. Le Guin | The Stars Below

589

Ryan North | Cancer

590

Adam-Troy Castro | The Boy and the Box

591

Benjamin Roy Lambert | Division of Labor

592

Sylvia Spruck Wrigley | Alive, Alive Oh

593

Paul Park | Get a Grip

594

Megan Arkenberg | The Huntsman

595

Theodora Goss | Princess Lucinda and the Hound of the Moon

596

Dennis Danvers | Leaving the Dead

597

Holly Black | The Aarne-Thompson Classification Revue

598

Sean Williams | The Missing Metatarsals

599

Maria Dahvana Headley | The Traditional

600

Hugh Howey | Deep Blood Kettle

601

Karin Tidbeck | A Fine Show on the Abyssal Plain

602

Kathleen Ann Goonan | A Love Supreme

603

Christopher Barzak | Smoke City

604

Angélica Gorodischer | The Sense of the Circle

605

Rich Larson | Let’s Take This Viral

606

Sarena Ulibarri | The Bolt Tightener

607

Karen Joy Fowler | Lily Red

608

M. Bennardo | The Herons of Mer de l’Ouest

609

Carrie Vaughn | Harry and Marlowe Escape the Mechanical Siege of Paris

610

Robert Reed | Eight Episodes

611

Marly Youmans | Prolegomenon to the Adventures of Chílde Phoenix

612

Kristine Kathryn Rusch | Purity Test

613

Jeffrey Ford | Daltharee

614

Cherie Priest | Addison Howell and the Clockroach

615

Matthew Kressel | The Sounds of Old Earth

616

Sarah Langan | Family Teeth (Part 6): St. Polycarp’s Home For Happy Wanderers

617

D. Thomas Minton | Dreams in Dust

618

JT Petty | Family Teeth (Part 5): American Jackal

619

Ken Liu | The Perfect Match

620

Tobias S. Buckell | A Game of Rats and Dragon

621

Carrie Vaughn | A Princess of Spain

622

Jeremiah Tolbert | La Alma Perdida de Marguerite Espinoza

623

Sandra McDonald | Searching for Slave Leia

624

Megan Arkenberg | The Suicide’s Guide to the Absinthe of Perdition

625

Nancy Kress | Art of War

626

David Barr Kirtley | The Black Bird

627

Robert Reed | Flowing Unimpeded to the Enlightenment

628

Nina Kiriki Hoffman | Monster, Finder, Shifter

629

Peter Sursi | The Seven Samovars

630

Harry Harrison | The Streets of Ashkelon

631

Adam-Troy Castro | My Wife Hates Time Travel

632

Kat Howard | Breaking the Frame

633

Charlie Jane Anders | Love Might Be Too Strong a Word

634

Linda Nagata | A Moment Before It Struck

635

Ken Liu | The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species

636

Maria Dahvana Headley | Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream

637

Peter S. Beagle | Gordon, the Self-made Cat

638

Joe Haldeman | Four Short Novels

639

Jake Kerr | Requiem in the Key of Prose

640

George R.R. Martin | The Way of Cross and Dragon

641

Kelsey Ann Barrett | My Teacher, My Enemy

642

John Langan | Renfrew’s Course

643

Simon McCaffery | The Cristóbal Effect

644

Melanie Rawn | Mother of All Russiya

645

C.C. Finlay | The Cross-Time Accountants Fail To Kill Hitler Because Chuck Berry Does The Twist

646

Catherynne M. Valente | A Hole to China

647

Linda Nagata | Nightside on Callisto

648

Kim Stanley Robinson | Our Town

649

Eric Gregory | The Sympathy

650

Caitlín R. Kiernan | The Steam Dancer (1896)

651

Vandana Singh | Ruminations in an Alien Tongue

652

Steven Utley | Test

653

David Barr Kirtley | Beauty

654

Kathleen Ann Goonan | Electric Rains

655

Mary Rosenblum | My She

656

S. L. Gilbow | Alarms

657

Carrie Vaughn | Harry and Marlowe and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil

658

Gregory Benford | Dark Sanctuary

659

Brooke Bolander | Her Words Like Hunting Vixens Spring

660

Ken Liu | The Five Elements of the Heart Mind

661

Marissa Lingen | On the Acquisition of Phoenix Eggs (Variant)

662

Sarah Monette | Blue Lace Agate

663

Megan Arkenberg | How Many Miles to Babylon?

664

Andrew Penn Romine | The Parting Glass

665

Vylar Kaftan | The Sighted Watchmaker

666

John Crowley | Snow

667

Lisa Nohealani Morton | How Maartje and Uppinder Terraformed Mars (Marsmen Trad.)

668

David Farland | Against Eternity

669

Adam-Troy Castro | Her Husband’s Hands

670

Ursula K. Le Guin | The Island of the Immortals

671

David Brin | Bubbles

672

Genevieve Valentine | The Nearest Thing

673

John Varley | Just Another Perfect Day

674

Kat Howard | Sweet Sixteen

675

Jake Kerr | The Old Equations

676

Grady Hendrix | Transcript of Interaction Between Astronaut Mike Scudderman and the OnStar Hands-Free A.I. Crash Advisor

677

K.C. Ball | Snapshots I Brought Back from the Black Hole

678

Nancy Kress | Eliot Wrote

679

Eric Gregory | The Harrowers

680

Anne McCaffrey | Velvet Fields

681

Tom Crosshill | Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son

682

Robert Reed | Woman Leaves Room

683

Maggie Clark | Saying the Names

684

James Patrick Kelly | Breakaway, Backdown

685

Ken Liu | Simulacrum

686

Cat Rambo | Long Enough and Just So Long

687

Orson Scott Card | The Elephants of Poznan

688

Tanith Lee | Black Fire

689

Ursula K. Le Guin | The Silence of the Asonu

690

David Tallerman | Jenny’s Sick

691

Kristine Kathryn Rusch | The Observer

692

Nancy Kress | Ej-Es

693

Alice Sola Kim | Hwang’s Billion Brilliant Daughters

694

Charles Yu | Standard Loneliness Package

695

John R. Fultz | The Taste of Starlight

696

Joe R. Lansdale | Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back

697

Cat Rambo | Amid the Words of War

698

Yoon Ha Lee | Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain

699

Joe Haldeman | More Than the Sum of His Parts

700

Adam-Troy Castro | Arvies

701

Catherynne M. Valente | How to Become a Mars Overlord

702

Genevieve Valentine | The Zeppelin Conductors’ Society Annual Gentlemen’s Ball

703

Carol Emshwiller | No Time Like the Present

704

Carrie Vaughn | Amaryllis

705

David Barr Kirtley | Cats in Victory

706

Jack McDevitt | The Cassandra Project

707

Vylar Kaftan | I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno