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• Introduction (Dangerous Women) • (2013) • essay by Gardner Dozois
• Some Desperado • [The First Law Universe] • (2013) • short story by Joe Abercrombie
• My Heart Is Either Broken • non-genre • novelette by Megan Abbott
• Nora's Song • non-genre • novelette by Cecelia Holland
• The Hands That Are Not There • [The Imperials Saga] • (2013) • novelette by Melinda M. Snodgrass [as by Melinda Snodgrass]
• Bombshells • [The Dresden Files • 13.5] • (2013) • novelette by Jim Butcher
• Raisa Stepanova • non-genre • (2013) • novelette by Carrie Vaughn
• Wrestling Jesus • (2013) • novelette by Joe R. Lansdale
• Neighbors • (2013) • novelette by Robin Hobb [as by Megan Lindholm]
• I Know How to Pick 'Em • non-genre • novelette by Lawrence Block
• Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell • [Threnody] • (2013) • novella by Brandon Sanderson
• A Queen in Exile • non-genre • short fiction by Sharon Kay Penman
• The Girl in the Mirror • [Fillory] • (2013) • novelette by Lev Grossman
• Second Arabesque, Very Slowly • (2013) • novelette by Nancy Kress
• City Lazarus • (2013) • novelette by Diana Rowland
• Virgins • [Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)] • (2013) • novella by Diana Gabaldon
• Hell Hath No Fury • (2013) • short story by Sherrilyn Kenyon
• Pronouncing Doom • [Emberverse I] • (2013) • novelette by S. M. Stirling
• Name the Beast • (2013) • short story by Sam Sykes [as by Samuel Sykes]
• Caretakers • non-genre • (2013) • novelette by Pat Cadigan
• Lies My Mother Told Me • [Wild Cards] • (2013) • novella by Caroline Spector
• The Princess and the Queen, or, The Blacks and the Greens • [Targaryen History] • (2013) • novella by George R. R. Martin