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• 7 • Introduction (Federations) • (2009) • essay by John Joseph Adams
• 9 • Mazer in Prison • [Ender's Universe] • (2005) • novelette by Orson Scott Card
• 28 • Carthago Delenda Est • (2009) • short story by Genevieve Valentine
• 37 • Life-Suspension • (2009) • short story by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
• 50 • Terra-Exulta • (2009) • short story by S. L. Gilbow
• 58 • Aftermaths • [Cordelia Vorkosigan] • (1986) • short story by Lois McMaster Bujold
• 67 • Someone Is Stealing the Great Throne Rooms of the Galaxy • (2006) • short story by Harry Turtledove
• 75 • Prisons • (1992) • short story by Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason
• 92 • Different Day • (2009) • short story by K. Tempest Bradford
• 95 • Twilight of the Gods • (2009) • novelette by John C. Wright
• 114 • Warship • (1979) • short story by George Guthridge and George R. R. Martin
• 119 • Swanwatch • (2009) • short story by Yoon Ha Lee
• 127 • Spirey and the Queen • (1996) • novelette by Alastair Reynolds
• 153 • Pardon Our Conquest • [Humanx Commonwealth] • (2009) • short story by Alan Dean Foster
• 161 • Symbiont • (1985) • novelette by Robert Silverberg
• 178 • The Ship Who Returned • [The Ship Who ...] • (1999) • novelette by Anne McCaffrey (variant of The Ship That Returned)
• 210 • My She • (2009) • short story by Mary Rosenblum
• 222 • The Shoulders of Giants • (2000) • short story by Robert J. Sawyer
• 235 • The Culture Archivist • (2009) • short story by Jeremiah Tolbert
• 248 • The Other Side of Jordan • [Coyote Universe] • (2009) • short story by Allen Steele
• 259 • Like They Always Been Free • (2009) • short story by Georgina Li
• 262 • Eskhara • (2009) • short story by Trent Hergenrader
• 273 • The One with the Interstellar Group Consciousnesses • (2009) • short story by James Alan Gardner
• 286 • Golubash, or Wine-Blood-War-Elegy • (2009) • short story by Catherynne M. Valente