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• 9 • Introduction (Ascendancies) • essay by Karen Joy Fowler
• 13 • Foreword (Ascendancies) • essay by Bruce Sterling
• 23 • Swarm • [Shaper/Mechanist] • (1982) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
• 45 • Spider Rose • [Shaper/Mechanist] • (1982) • short story by Bruce Sterling
• 61 • Cicada Queen • [Shaper/Mechanist] • (1983) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
• 93 • Sunken Gardens • [Shaper/Mechanist] • (1984) • short story by Bruce Sterling
• 107 • Twenty Evocations • [Shaper/Mechanist] • (1989) • short story by Bruce Sterling (variant of Life in the Mechanist/Shaper Era: 20 Evocations 1984)
• 117 • Green Days in Brunei • (1985) • novella by Bruce Sterling
• 161 • Dinner in Audoghast • (1985) • short story by Bruce Sterling
• 173 • The Compassionate, the Digital • (1985) • short story by Bruce Sterling
• 179 • Flowers of Edo • (1987) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
• 201 • The Little Magic Shop • (1987) • short story by Bruce Sterling
• 213 • Our Neural Chernobyl • (1988) • short story by Bruce Sterling
• 221 • We See Things Differently • (1989) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
• 239 • Dori Bangs • (1989) • short story by Bruce Sterling
• 253 • Hollywood Kremlin • [Leggy Starlitz] • (1990) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
• 277 • Are You for 86? • [Leggy Starlitz] • (1992) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
• 303 • The Littlest Jackal • [Leggy Starlitz] • (1996) • novella by Bruce Sterling
• 345 • Deep Eddy • [Chattanooga] • (1993) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
• 379 • Bicycle Repairman • [Chattanooga] • (1996) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
• 409 • Taklamakan • [Chattanooga] • (1998) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
• 449 • The Sword of Damocles • (1990) • short story by Bruce Sterling
• 457 • Maneki Neko • (1998) • short story by Bruce Sterling
• 471 • In Paradise • (2002) • short story by Bruce Sterling
• 481 • The Blemmye's Strategem • (2005) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
• 509 • Kiosk • (2007) • novelette by Bruce Sterling