9: Kommentar: Introduction (John Joseph Adams)
13: The Red-Headed Dead (Joe R. Lansdale)
23: The Old Slow Man and his Gold Gun from Space (Ben H. Winters)
33: Hellfire on the High Frontier (David Farland)
51: The Hell-bound Stagecoach (Mike Resnick)
63: Stingers and Strangers (Seanan McGuire)
91: Bookkeeper, Narrator, Gunslinger (Charles Yu)
101: Holy Jingle (Alan Dean Foster)
115: The Man with no Heart (Beth Revis)
129: Wrecking Party (Alastair Reynolds)
149: Hell From the East (Hugh Howey)
161: Second Hand (Rajan Khanna)
201: Madam Damnable's Sewing Circle (Elizabeth Bear)
217: Strong Medicine (Tad Williams)
247: Red Dreams (Jonathan Maberry)
269: Bamboozled (Kelley Armstrong)
283: Sundown (Tobias S. Buckell)
305: La Madre del Oro (Jeffrey Ford)
323: What I Assume You Shall Assume (Ken Liu)
347: The Devil's Jack (Laura Anne Gilman)
361: The Golden Age (Walter Jon Williams)
393: Neversleeps (Fred van Lente)
411: Dead Man's Hand (Christie Yant)
417: Abschnitt: Acknowledgments
419: Abschnitt: About the Contributors
427: Abschnitt: About the Editor
vii: Kommentar: Introduction: Writing Out the Dragons (James A. Owen)
1: I Hate Dragons (Brandon Sanderson)
3: Muse (Jody Lynn Nye)
21: Gedicht: A Pretentious Sonnet I Wrote Because I Had Only a Few Hours to Learn Iambic Pentameter (Adric Mayall)
23: The Dragon Went Down to Dyfi (Frog Jones)
37: The Final Fold (Josh Vogt)
43: Li Na and the Dragon (Scott R. Parkin)
55: Wayne and the Gator (Kristin Luna)
67: Lullaby (John D. Payne)
79: Eat Your Heart Out (Joy Dawn Johnson)
91: Which Way to the Dragon? (Michael Angel)
103: Manifest (Brandon M. Lindsay)
113: Heart of the Dragon (L. J. Hachmeister)
129: Salvation, on Painted Wings (Kevin Ikenberry)
139: The Essence (Frank Morin)
155: Reconciling with the Dragon (Melissa Koons)
169: His Greatest Creation (Jace Killan)
177: Shattered Pieces Swept Away (Gregory D. Little)
191: Love Notes (Nancy DiMauro)
207: Soot and Cinder (Tristan Brand)
211: Dragon Years (Robert J. McCarter)
227: Dust and Fire (Aaron Michael Ritchey)
239: Black Tide's Last Ride (Mike Jack Stoumbos)
255: Forging the Dragon (Peter Sartucci)
263: On Dragon's Wings (M. J. Carlson)
275: The Dragon's Child (Todd McCaffrey)
295: Sweetly the Dragon Dreams (David Farland)
345: Abschnitt: About the Editor
347: Abschnitt: Additional Copyright Information
i: Kommentar: Foreword
iv: Kommentar: Horseman, Pass By (Trent Zelazny)
vii: Abschnitt: Part I: Sword & Sorcery
1: The Edge of Magic (Henry Szabranski)
19: Annual Dues (Ken Scholes)
27: The Kitsune's Nine Tales (Kelley Armstrong)
37: Elroy Wooden Sword (S. C. Hayden)
51: In the Lost Lands (George R. R. Martin)
67: Worms Rising From the Dirt (David Farland)
75: Snow Wolf and Evening Wolf (James Enge)
87: Knight's Errand (Jane Lindskold)
101: Abschnitt: Part II: Fairy Tales
103: Languid in Rose (Frances Silversmith)
115: Green They Were, and Golden-Eyed (Alan Dean Foster)
123: Golden (Todd McCaffrey)
133: Mountain Spirit (Piers Anthony)
143: Moon Glass (Megan Moore)
149: The George Business (Roger Zelazny)
157: Abschnitt: Part III: Paranormal
159: Only the End of the World Again (Neil Gaiman)
175: Lenora of the Low (Marina J. Lostetter)
187: Trufan Fever (Katharine Kerr)
197: Undying Love (Jackie Kessler)
213: Abschnitt: Part IV: Urban Fantasy
215: Dancing With the Mouse King (Carrie Vaughn)
231: Showlogo (Nnedi Okorafor)
243: The Bluest Hour (Jaye Wells)
257: Pandal Food (Samit Basu)
275: Man of Water (Kyle Aisteach)
283: Abschnitt: Part V: Weird Fantasy
285: Bones of a Righteous Man (Michael Ezell)
303: Time's Mistress (Steven Savile)
319: Little Pig, Berry Brown and the Hard Moon (Jay Lake)
329: The Grenade Garden (Michael Moorcock)
339: Sand and Teeth (Carmen Tudor)
347: The Seas of Heaven (David Parish-Whittaker)
357: Abschnitt: Colon Cancer - Signs and Warnings
358: Abschnitt: About the Editors
xi: Kommentar: Introduction (David Farland)
1: Moonlight One (Stephen Lawson)
29: The Armor Embrace (Doug C. Souza)
43: Envoy in the Ice (Dustin Steinacker)
71: Essay: Search for Research (Ron L. Hubbard)
81: The Devil's Rescue (Ron L. Hubbard)
103: Tears for Shülna (Andrew L. Roberts)
117: The Drake Equation (C. L. Kagmi)
133: Acquisition (Jake Marley)
153: Obsidian Spire (Molly Elizabeth Atkins)
171: Essay: A Thousand or So Words of Wisdom (Anne McCaffrey)
177: Gator (Robert J. Sawyer)
193: A Glowing Heart (Anton Rose)
205: The Long Dizzy Down (Ziporah Hildebrandt)
225: The Woodcutters' Deity (Walter Dinjos)
243: Essay: How to Become an Illustrator (Larry Elmore)
247: The Dragon Killer's Daughter (Todd McCaffrey)
263: Useless Magic (Andrew Peery)
283: Adramelech (Sean Hazlett)
299: The Fox, the Wolf, and the Dove (Ville Meriläinen)
329: The Magnificent Bhajan (David VonAllmen)
347: Essay: Notes on Art Direction: Is It Direction or Suggestion? (Bob Eggleton)
351: Abschnitt: List of Illustrations by Artist
369: Abschnitt: The Year in the Contests
5: Abschnitt: Copyright Acknowledgements
9: Kommentar: Foreword (Chris Claremont)
16: Professor Incognito Apologizes: An Itemized List (Austin Grossman)
28: Father of the Groom (Harry Turtledove)
38: Laughter at the Academy (Seanan McGuire)
52: Letter to the Editor (David D. Levine)
59: Instead of a Loving Heart (Jeremiah Tolbert)
68: The Executor (Daniel H. Wilson)
83: The Angel of Death Has a Business Plan (Heather Lindsley)
96: Homo Perfectus (David Farland)
108: Ancient Equations (L. A. Banks)
123: Rural Singularity (Alan Dean Foster)
133: Captain Justice Saves the Day (Genevieve Valentine)
142: The Mad Scientist's Daughter (Theodora Goss)
161: The Space Between (Diana Gabaldon)
245: Harry and Marlowe Meet the Founder of the Aetherian Revolution (Carrie Vaughn)
261: Blood & Stardust (Laird Barron)
276: A More Perfect Union (L. E. Modesitt Jr.)
289: Rocks Fall (Naomi Novik)
298: We Interrupt this Broadcast (Mary Robinette Kowal)
306: The Last Dignity of Man (Marjorie M. Liu)
328: The Pittsburgh Technology (Jeffrey Ford)
341: Mofongo Knows (Grady Hendrix)
357: The Food Taster's Boy (Ben H. Winters)