xi: Kommentar: Introduction (John Joseph Adams)
1: A Temporary Embarrasment In Spacetime (Charlie Jane Anders)
35: Zen And The Art Of Starship Maintenance (Tobias S. Buckell)
56: The Deckhand, The Nova Blade, And The Thrice-Sung Texts (Becky Chambers)
71: The Sighted Watchmaker (Vylar Kaftan)
82: Infinite Love Engine (Joseph Allen Hill)
122: Seven Wonders Of A Once And Future World (Caroline M. Yoachim)
142: Our Specialty Is Xenogeology (Alan Dean Foster)
157: Golden Ring (Karl Schroeder)
182: Tomorrow When We See The Sun (A. Merc Rustad)
207: Bring The Kids And Revisit The Past At The Travelling Retro Funfair! (Seanan McGuire)
223: The Dragon That Flew Out Of The Sun (Aliette de Bodard)
235: Diamond And The World Breaker (Linda Nagata)
260: The Chameleon's Gloves (Yoon Ha Lee)
285: The Universe, Sung In Stars (Kat Howard)
291: Wakening Ouroboros (Jack Campbell)
306: Warped Passages (Kameron Hurley)
323: The Forst Giant's Data (Dan Abnett)
13: Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies (Brooke Bolander)
17: Blessings (Naomi Novik)
71: Gedicht: The New Ways (Amal El-Mohtar)
73: Fandom for Robots (Vina Jie-Min Prasad)
87: Catcall (Delilah S. Dawson)
109: Wooden Feathers (Ursula Vernon)
129: Gedicht: The Long Run (Neil Gaiman)
131: The Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History (Sam J. Miller)
149: Ghost Champagne (Charlie Jane Anders)
167: Translatio Corporis (Kat Howard)
179: Gedicht: Rose Child (Theodora Goss)
183: The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knight (E. Lily Yu)
201: Monster Girls Don't Cry (A. Merc Rustad)
219: Midnight Hour (Mary Robinette Kowal)
241: Henosis (N. K. Jemisin)
249: Gedicht: The Persecution of Witches (Ali Trotta)
251: Restore the Heart into Love (John Chu)
267: I Frequently Hear Music in the Very Heart of Noise (Sarah Pinsker)
285: You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay (Alyssa Wong)
317: Gedicht: 肉骨茶 (Meat Bone Tea) (S. Qiouyi Lu)
319: She Still Loves the Dragon (Elizabeth Bear)
333: If You Were a Tiger, I'd Have to Wear White (Maria Dahvana Headley)
349: Gedicht: archival testimony fragments / minersong (Rose Lemberg)
353: Sun, Moon, Dust (Ursula Vernon)
367: Planet Lion (Catherynne M. Valente)
389: The Hydraulic Emperor (Arkady Martine)
415: Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time (K. M. Szpara)
447: Gedicht: god-date (Brandon O'Brien)
451: Auspicium Melioris Aevi (JY Yang)
469: Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand (Fran Wilde)
477: An Ocean the Color of Bruises (Isabel Yap)
493: Gedicht: Dancing Princesses (Roshani Chokshi)
497: Those (Sofia Samatar)
513: Though She Be But Little (C. S. E. Cooney)
533: Children of Thorns, Children of Water (Aliette de Bodard)
571: Gedicht: Protestations Against the Idea of Anglicization (Cassandra Khaw)
575: My Body, Herself (Carmen Maria Machado)
583: Ye Highlands and Ye Lowlands (Seanan McGuire)
601: The Words on My Skin (Caroline M. Yoachim)
605: And Then There Were (N–One) (Sarah Pinsker)
661: Gedicht: The Sea Never Says It Loves You (Fran Wilde)
663: Pockets (Amal El-Mohtar)
675: Abschnitt: Author Biographies
xiii: Abschnitt: Acknowledgments
xv: Kommentar: Introduction
1: What Heroism Tells Us (Jane Yolen)
3: Matriculation (Elle Katharine White)
25: Hikayat Sri Bujang, or, The Tale of the Naga Sage (Zen Cho)
49: Yuli (Daniel Abraham)
67: A Whisper of Blue (Ken Liu)
99: Nidhog (Jo Walton)
103: Where the River Turns to Concrete (Brooke Bolander)
129: Habitat (K. J. Parker)
153: Pox (Ellen Klages)
177: The Nine Curves River (R. F. Kuang)
195: Lucky's Dragon (Kelly Barnhill)
231: I Make Myself a Dragon (Beth Cato)
237: The Exile (JY Yang)
255: Except on Saturdays (Peter S. Beagle)
267: La Vitesse (Kelly Robson)
289: A Final Knight to Her Love and Foe (Amal El-Mohtar)
293: The Long Walk (Kate Elliott)
339: Cut Me Another Quill, Mister Fitz (Garth Nix)
367: Hoard (Seanan McGuire)
377: The Wyrm of Lirr (C. S. E. Cooney)
383: The Last Hunt (Aliette de Bodard)
425: Small Bird's Plea (Todd McCaffrey)
453: The Dragons (Theodora Goss)
459: Dragon Slayer (Michael Swanwick)
479: Camouflage (Patricia A. McKillip)
497: We Don't Talk About Dragon (Sarah Gailey)
517: Maybe Just Go Up There and Talk to It (Scott Lynch)
547: A Nice Cuppa (Jane Yolen)
551: Abschnitt: About Our Poets
555: Abschnitt: About Jonathan Strahan
557: Abschnitt: Credits
2: Raveling (K. M. Laney)
11: Death and Mrs. Morrison (Andrea Mullen)
16: Death and the Fashionista (Faith Hunter)
31: Awake, Awake (Kendra Leigh Speedling)
46: The End (Jason M. Hough)
53: The Dance (Julie Pitzel)
58: The Legend of John Barrett (Shaun Avery)
71: The Wolves of Lady Death (Christie Golden)
79: Wedding Vows (Leah Cutter)
90: Cicada Song, in a Country Since Long Gone (Aliette de Bodard)
106: Dying on Stage (Andrew Dunlop)
118: A Sonstant Companion (Juliet E. McKenna)
132: Thrice Remembered (A. Merc Rustad)
138: Charnel House (Ville Meriläinen)
151: How Death Came By His Soul (Amanda Kespohl)
159: The Tab (Mack Moyer)
165: Death and My Mentions (Fran Wilde)
176: A Shift in Mood (Kathryn McBride)
187: Finding the Dancer (Andrija Popovic)
199: The Fallow Grave of Dream (Jim C. Hines)
206: What Happens in Vegas (Stephen Blackmoore)
221: Delayed Exchange Deferred (Kiya Nicoll)
228: Abschnitt: About the Authors
233: Abschnitt: About the Editors
234: Abschnitt: Acknowledgments
vii: Abschnitt: Permissions
xi: Kommentar: Foreword (David Steffen)
1: Damage (David D. Levine)
21: Pockets (Amal El-Mohtar)
31: Today I am Paul (Martin L. Shoemaker)
43: The Woman You Didn't See (Nicola Griffith)
51: Tuesdays With Molakesh the Destroyer (Megan Grey)
63: Wooden Feathers (Ursula Vernon)
79: Three Cups of Grief, By Starlight (Aliette de Bodard)
97: Madeleine (Amal El-Mohtar)
113: Neat Things (Seanan McGuire)
117: Pocosin (Ursula Vernon)
131: Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers (Alyssa Wong)
149: So Much Cooking (Naomi Kritzer)
171: The Deepwater Bride (Tamsyn Muir)
195: The Heart's Filthy Lesson (Elizabeth Bear)
219: Grandmother-nai-Leylit's Cloth of Winds (Rose Lemberg)
153: Another Word For World (Ann Leckie)
285: The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild (Catherynne M. Valente)
321: Our Lady of the Open Road (Sarah Pinsker)
355: The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn (Usman T. Malik)
413: The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps (Kai Ashante Wilson)
525: Abschnitt: Acknowledgments
527: Abschnitt: Backer Appreciation
529: Abschnitt: About the Editor
vii: Abschnitt: Permissions
xi: Kommentar: Foreword (David Steffen)
1: Red in Tooth and Cog (Cat Rambo)
21: A Salvaging of Ghosts (Aliette de Bodard)
33: Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station | Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0 (Caroline M. Yoachim)
39: Razorback (Ursula Vernon)
55: We Have a Cultural Difference, Can I Taste You? (Rebecca Ann Jordan)
65: Lullaby for a Lost World (Aliette de Bodard)
73: Terminal (Lavie Tidhar)
89: Ye Highlands and Ye Lowlands (Seanan McGuire)
103: Things With Beards (Sam J. Miller)
117: The Venus Effect (Joseph Allen Hill)
141: The Visitor From Taured (Ian R. MacLeod)
163: Blood Grains Speak Through Memories (Jason Sanford)
197: Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea (Sarah Pinsker)
217: A Dead Djinn in Cairo (P. Djèlí Clark)
249: Red as Blood and White as Bone (Theodora Goss)
271: Foxfire, Foxfire (Yoon Ha Lee)
291: Forest of Memory (Mary Robinette Kowal)
381: Hammers on Bone (Cassandra Khaw)
431: Runtime (S. B. Divya)
489: Abschnitt: Acknowledgments
491: Abschnitt: Backer Appreciation
493: Abschnitt: About the Editor
495: Abschnitt: More From Diabolical Plots Publishing