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• 9 • Introduction (Federations) • essay by John Joseph Adams
• 12 • Mazer in Prison • [Ender's Universe] • (2005) • novelette by Orson Scott Card
• 36 • Carthago Delenda Est • short story by Genevieve Valentine
• 49 • Life-Suspension • short story by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
• 66 • Terra-Exulta • short story by S. L. Gilbow
• 76 • Aftermaths • [Cordelia Vorkosigan] • (1986) • short story by Lois McMaster Bujold
• 88 • Someone Is Stealing the Great Throne Rooms of the Galaxy • (2006) • short story by Harry Turtledove
• 98 • Prisons • (1992) • short story by Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason
• 119 • Different Day • short story by K. Tempest Bradford
• 123 • Twilight of the Gods • novelette by John C. Wright
• 147 • Warship • (1979) • short story by George Guthridge and George R. R. Martin
• 154 • Swanwatch • short story by Yoon Ha Lee
• 165 • Spirey and the Queen • (1996) • novelette by Alastair Reynolds
• 197 • Pardon Our Conquest • [Humanx Commonwealth] • short story by Alan Dean Foster
• 208 • Symbiont • (1985) • novelette by Robert Silverberg
• 229 • The Ship Who Returned • [The Ship Who ...] • (1999) • novelette by Anne McCaffrey (variant of The Ship That Returned)
• 269 • My She • short story by Mary Rosenblum
• 285 • The Shoulders of Giants • (2000) • short story by Robert J. Sawyer
• 302 • The Culture Archivist • short story by Jeremiah Tolbert
• 318 • The Other Side of Jordan • [Coyote Universe] • short story by Allen Steele
• 332 • Like They Always Been Free • short story by Georgina Li
• 336 • Eskhara • short story by Trent Hergenrader
• 351 • The One with the Interstellar Group Consciousnesses • short story by James Alan Gardner
• 367 • Golubash, or Wine-Blood-War-Elegy • short story by Catherynne M. Valente
• bc •  Federations • interior artwork by James Thew