Table of Contents

• Introduction, Jonathan Strahan 11
• Slipping, Lauren Beukes
• Moriabe’s Children, Paolo Bacigalupi
• The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family, Usman T. Malik
• The Lady and the Fox, Kelly Link
• Ten Rules for Being an Intergalactic Smuggler (The Successful Kind), Holly Black
• THE LONG HAUL from the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009, Ken Liu
• Tough Times All Over, Joe Abercrombie
• The Insects of Love, Genevieve Valentine
• Cold Wind, Nicola Griffith
• Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No.8), Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Shadow Flock, Greg Egan
• I Met a Man Who Wasn’t There, K. J. Parker
• Grand Jeté (The Great Leap), Rachel Swirsky
• Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They are Terrifying, Alice Sola Kim
• Shay Corsham Worsted, Garth Nix
• Kheldyu, Karl Schroeder
• Caligo Lane, Ellen Klages
• The Devil in America, Kai Ashante Wilson
• Tawny Petticoats, Michael Swanwick
• The Fifth Dragon, Ian McDonald
• The Truth About Owls, Amal El-Mohtar
• Four Days of Christmas, Tim Maughan
• Covenant, Elizabeth Bear
• Cimmeria: From The Journal of Imaginary Anthropology, Theodora Goss
• Collateral, Peter Watts
• The Scrivener, Eleanor Arnason
• Someday, James Patrick Kelly
• Amicae Aeternum, Ellen Klages

About the Author

Jonathan Strahan is a World Fantasy Award award-winning editor, anthologist, and podcaster. He has edited more than 70 books, is reviews editor for Locus, a consulting editor for Tor.com, and co-host and producer of the Hugo-nominated Coode Street Podcast.