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• 7 • Introduction (The Way of the Wizard) • essay by John Joseph Adams
• 9 • In the Lost Lands • (1982) • short story by George R. R. Martin
• 24 • Family Tree • short story by David Barr Kirtley
• 43 • John Uskglass and the Cumbrian Charcoal Burner • [The Raven King] • (2006) • short story by Susanna Clarke
• 52 • Wizard's Apprentice • (2009) • short story by Delia Sherman
• 61 • The Sorcerer Minus • short story by Jeffrey Ford
• 69 • Life So Dear or Peace So Sweet • novelette by Charles Coleman Finlay [as by C. C. Finlay]
• 96 • Card Sharp • [Card Sharp] • short story by Rajan Khanna
• 107 • So Deep That the Bottom Could Not Be Seen • short story by Genevieve Valentine
• 118 • The Go-Slow • short story by Nnedi Okorafor
• 134 • Too Fatal a Poison • short story by Krista Hoeppner Leahy
• 143 • Jamaica • (2007) • novelette by Orson Scott Card
• 163 • The Sorcerer's Apprentice • [Majipoor] • (2004) • novelette by Robert Silverberg
• 181 • The Secret of Calling Rabbits • short story by Wendy N. Wagner
• 193 • The Wizards of Perfil • (2006) • novella by Kelly Link
• 225 • How to Sell the Ponti Bridge • (1985) • novelette by Neil Gaiman
• 236 • The Magician and the Maid and Other Stories • (2010) • short story by Christie Yant
• 248 • Winter Solstice • (1991) • short story by Mike Resnick
• 259 • The Trader and the Slave • short story by Cinda Williams Chima
• 272 • Cerile and the Journeyer • (1995) • short story by Adam-Troy Castro
• 278 • Counting the Shapes • (2001) • novelette by Yoon Ha Lee
• 296 • Endgame • [Fillory] • short story by Lev Grossman
• 307 • Street Wizard • short story by Simon R. Green
• 317 • Mommy Issues of the Dead • short story by Tim Pratt [as by T. A. Pratt]
• 333 • One-Click Banishment • novelette by Jeremiah Tolbert
• 350 • The Ereshkigal Working • short story by Jonathan L. Howard
• 365 • Feeding the Feral Children • novelette by Dave Wolverton [as by David Farland]
• 386 • The Orange-Tree Sacrifice • short story by Vylar Kaftan
• 389 • Love Is the Spell That Casts Out Fear • short story by Desirina Boskovich
• 402 • El Regalo • (2006) • novelette by Peter S. Beagle
• 433 • The Word of Unbinding • [Earthsea Cycle] • (1964) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 440 • The Thirteen Texts of Arthyria • novelette by John R. Fultz
• 459 • The Secret of the Blue Star • [Lythande] • (1979) • novelette by Marion Zimmer Bradley