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“Introduction” © 2018 by Jane Yolen.
“A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers” © 2016 by Alyssa Wong, first published on Tor.com, March 2016.
“Sabbath Wine” © 2016 by Barbara Krasnoff, first published in Clockwork Phoenix 5, April 2016.
“Things with Beards” © 2016 by Sam J. Miller, first published in Clarkesworld, June 2016.
“Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station | Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0” © 2016 by Caroline M. Yoachim, first published in Lightspeed, March 2016.
“This Is Not a Wardrobe Door” © 2016 by A. Merc Rustad, first published in Fireside Fiction, January 2016.
“Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies” © 2016 by Brooke Bolander, first published in Uncanny, November 2016.
“Seasons of Glass and Iron” © 2016 by Amal El-Mohtar, first published in The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, October 2016.
Excerpt from The Jewel and Her Lapidary ©2016 by Fran Wilde, first published by Tor.com Publishing, May 2016.
“Blood Grains Speak Through Memories” © 2016 by Jason Sanford, first published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2016.
“Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea” © 2016 by Sarah Pinsker, first published in Lightspeed, February 2016.
“The Orangery” © 2016 by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, first published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, December 2016.
“You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay” © 2016 by Alyssa Wong, first published in Uncanny, May 2016.
“The Long Fall Up” © 2016 by William Ledbetter, first published in Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 2016.
Excerpt from Every Heart a Doorway © 2016 by Seanan McGuire, first published by Tor.com Publishing, April 2016.
Excerpt from All the Birds in the Sky © 2016 by Charlie Jane Anders, first published by Tor, January 2016.
Excerpt from Arabella of Mars © 2016 by David D. Levine, first published by Tor, July 2016.
Cover art © Galen Dara, for “These Constellations Will Be Yours” written by Elaine Cuyegkeng, published at Strange Horizons, August 2017.