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• xi • Introduction (Cosmic Powers) • essay by John Joseph Adams
• 1 • A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime • novelette by Charlie Jane Anders
• 35 • Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance • short story by Tobias S. Buckell
• 56 • The Deckhand, the Nova Blade, and the Thrice-Sung Texts • short story by Becky Chambers
• 71 • The Sighted Watchmaker • (2011) • short story by Vylar Kaftan
• 82 • Infinite Love Engine • short story by Joseph Allen Hill
• 103 • Unfamiliar Gods • short story by Adam-Troy Castro and Judi B. Castro
• 122 • Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World • (2015) • short story by Caroline M. Yoachim
• 142 • Our Specialty Is Xenogeology • short story by Alan Dean Foster
• 157 • Golden Ring • novelette by Karl Schroeder
• 182 • Tomorrow When We See the Sun • [Sun Lords of the Principality] • (2015) • short story by A. Merc Rustad
• 207 • Bring the Kids and Revisit the Past at the Traveling Retro Funfair! • short story by Seanan McGuire
• 223 • The Dragon That Flew Out of the Sun • [Universe of Xuya] • short story by Aliette de Bodard
• 235 • Diamond and the World Breaker • novelette by Linda Nagata
• 260 • The Chameleon's Gloves • [The Machineries of Empire] • novelette by Yoon Ha Lee
• 285 • The Universe, Sung in Stars • (2015) • short story by Kat Howard
• 291 • Wakening Ouroboros • short story by Jack Campbell
• 306 • Warped Passages • short story by Kameron Hurley
• 323 • The Frost Giant's Data • short story by Dan Abnett