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• ix • Greetings Earth Reader • essay by uncredited
• 3 • What's Expected of Us • (2005) • short story by Ted Chiang
• 9 • The Alien Education • short story by Helen Phillips
• 13 • The Skin Thing • short story by Adrian Van Young
• 19 • The Field • short story by Matt Rowan
• 23 • Wild Ride Caverns and Animal Adventure Park • short story by Karolina Waclawiak
• 29 • The Morning of My Meat Marking • short story by Alissa Nutting
• 33 • Gypsee • short story by Alexander Yates
• 39 • The Fall of Captain Thames • short story by Brian Kubarycz
• 43 • Some Discarded Theories Regarding the Evolution of Species • short story by Brent Van Horne
• 49 • Rex • short story by Laird Barron
• 57 • Systems • short story by Rebecca Evanhoe
• 61 • Mr. Watson, Do You Remember Houses? • short story by Corey Zeller
• 65 • In the Theater of the Collective Unconscious • short story by Kelly Luce
• 67 • Three Rains • short story by Lorraine Schein
• 69 • Guy Bleeding All Over Skype • short story by Jonathan Lethem
• 73 • Left Hand • short story by Tina Connolly
• 77 • Recalled • short story by Jedediah Berry
• 81 • Baby, Baby • short story by Ashley Farmer
• 85 • Lunch • short story by Rita Bullwinkel
• 89 • The Adventure of the Computer Program • short story by Seth Fried
• 93 • Monument • short story by Ben Segal
• 97 • Further Eruptions • short story by Gina Keicher
• 99 • RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: MICROWAVE IN THE BREAK ROOM DOING WEIRD THINGS TO FABRIC OF SPACE-TIME • short story by Charles Yu
• 105 • The Lighted Globes • short story by Amy Letter
• 109 • Red Planet • short story by Christopher Kennedy
• 111 • Us Reaction • short story by Blake Butler
• 115 • The Electric Joy of Service • short story by Rion Amilcar Scott
• 121 • The Bird Women of Planet HD 189733 • short story by Meghan McCarron
• 127 • Testimonial • short story by Adam Wilson
• 131 • Two Women At a Party On a Rooftop In a City On the Moon • short story by Joseph Scapellato
• 135 • Neil Armstrong Remembers His Journey to the Moon • (1991) • short story by J. G. Ballard
• 137 • Spiders • short story by Ben Loory
• 143 • Future Prosthetic@? • short story by Lynne Tillman
• 151 • Progymnasmata in Space, Among the People of the Hoot Owl • short story by Kyle Minor
• 155 • The Claw • short story by Virginia Zech
• 159 • Brief Synopsis for an Alternate World Novel: The Acts of Paul • (1982) • short story by Philip K. Dick
• 161 • An Honest World • short story by Catherine Lacey
• 167 • Thirteen Ways of Destroying a Painting • short story by Amber Sparks
• 173 • Private Eye • short story by Matthew Rossi
• 177 • Revenge of the Spider Goats • (1924) • short story by Iosif Eseki
• 185 • Rongorongo • short story by Ed Park
• 187 • Hitachi Magic • short story by Rachel Abelson
• 193 • This Was Your Last Human • short story by Alexandra Chasin
• 197 • WX-488 and the New Synthetic Evolution • short story by James Brubaker
• 203 • Follicular • short story by David Ohle
• 211 • Decay Circuit • short story by Brian Evenson
• 215 • Luzmila in the Salt Flats • short story by Giovanna Rivero
• 217 • Hum and Drone • short story by Andrew Ervin
• 223 • Date Night • short story by Erin Fitzgerald
• 227 • Iddad Library Catalogue of Surviving Foxes • short story by Alex Dally MacFarlane
• 233 • Something You May Not Have Known About Vera • short story by J. Robert Lennon