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• 3 • The Bookstore at the End of America • short story by Charlie Jane Anders
• 27 • Our Aim Is Not to Die • short story by A. Merc Rustad
• 49 • The Wall • short story by Lizz Huerta
• 62 • Read After Burning • short story by Maria Dahvana Headley
• 84 • Chapter 5: Disruption and Continuity [excerpted] • short story by Malka Older
• 93 • It Was Saturday Night, I Guess That Makes It All Right • short story by Sam J. Miller
• 111 • Attachment Disorder • short story by Tananarive Due
• 133 • By His Bootstraps • short story by Ashok K. Banker
• 145 • Riverbed • short story by Omar El Akkad
• 166 • What Maya Found There • short story by Daniel José Older
• 178 • The Referendum • short story by Lesley Nneka Arimah
• 191 • Calendar Girls • short story by Justina Ireland
• 205 • The Synapse Will Free Us from Ourselves • short story by Violet Allen
• 226 • O.1 • short story by Gabby Rivera
• 248 • The Blindfold • short story by Tobias S. Buckell
• 264 • No Algorithms in the World • short story by Hugh Howey
• 274 • Esperanto • short story by Jamie Ford
• 285 • ROME • short story by G. Willow Wilson
• 298 • Give Me Cornbread or Give Me Death • short story by N. K. Jemisin
• 307 • Good News Bad News • short story by Charles Yu
• 321 • What You Sow • short story by Kai Cheng Thom
• 339 • A History of Barbed Wire • short story by Daniel H. Wilson
• 351 • The Sun in Exile • short story by Catherynne M. Valente
• 360 • Harmony • short story by Seanan McGuire
• 376 • Now Wait for This Week • novelette by Alice Sola Kim