Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • Introduction (All These Shiny Worlds) • (2016) • essay by Jefferson Smith
• 3 • The First Man in the World • (2016) • short story by Misha Burnett
• 11 • Three Demon Gambit • (2014) • short story by J. S. Morin
• 24 • Rolling the Bones • (2016) • short story by Richard Levesque
• 37 • All the Way • (2009) • short story by Graham Storrs
• 43 • Scales Fall • (2016) • short story by Dave Higgins
• 56 • The Ant Tower • (2011) • novelette by Christopher Ruz
• 75 • Heft • (2016) • short story by Brett Adams
• 87 • The First Acolyte of the Upshan Berental • (2013) • short story by Bryce Anderson
• 101 • Bronwen's Dowry • (1989) • short story by Belinda Mellor
• 117 • The Spider and the Darkness • (2016) • short story by Russ Linton
• 131 • The Dowager's Largesse • (2016) • novelette by Jefferson Smith
• 160 • Theriac • [Emanations • 2.5] • (2014) • novelette by Becca Mills
• 179 • The Red Flame of Death • [Gideon Cain] • (2010) • short story by Van Allen Plexico
• 197 • The Blue Breeze • (2016) • novelette by Regina Richards
• 223 • The Rakam • [The Shattered Islands • 1] • (2015) • novelette by Dmytry Karpov-Kinrade and Lux Karpov-Kinrade [as by Karpov Kinrade]