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