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Introduction by Lezli Robyn
The Measure of a Mother’s Love by Z.T. Bright
Choice of the Conquered by Alex Shvartsman
The Right Reward by Katharine Kerr
The Bone Kite by Errick A. Nunnally
The Ecology of Broken Promises by Andrea Stewart
Duty and the Beast by David Gerrold
Night Folk by Barb Galler-Smith
Things That Shouldn’t Exist by Marina J. Lostetter
Substitutions by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Hive at the Dead Star by Lucas Carroll-Garrett
With Our Songs of Scars and Starlight by J.R. Troughton
Who Smiles Last by Fulvio Gatti
Tracks On the Moon by Todd McCaffrey
Pleasing the Parallels by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
The Negotiator by The Winner Twins
Grave 657 by Mica Scotti Kole
Against the Current by Robert Silverberg
Echoes of Gliese by Christopher Henckel
Timely Visitor by Jack McDevitt
How Does My Garden Grow? by David Cleden
Barnaby in Exile by Mike Resnick
Giant Mechs in the Distance, Forever Fighting by ZZ Claybourne
Worrywart by Effie Seiberg
The Color of Thunder by Alicia Cay
Men of Greywater Station by George R.R. Martin & Howard Waldrop
O2 Arena by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
For the Great and Immortal by Daniel Burnbridge
The Space-Time Painter by Hai Ya, translated by Roy Gilman