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• Foreword (Epic: Legends of Fantasy) • essay by Brent Weeks
• Introduction (Epic: Legends of Fantasy) • essay by John Joseph Adams
• Homecoming • [Realms of the Elderlings] • (2003) • novella by Robin Hobb
• The Word of Unbinding • [Earthsea Cycle] • (1964) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Burning Man • [Memory, Sorrow & Thorn] • (1998) • novelette by Tad Williams
• As the Wheel Turns • (2010) • short story by Aliette de Bodard
• The Alchemist • [The Tangled Lands Universe] • (2010) • novella by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Sandmagic • [Mither Mages] • (1979) • novelette by Orson Scott Card
• The Road to Levinshir • [The Kingkiller Chronicle] • (2002) • novelette by Patrick Rothfuss
• Rysn • [The Stormlight Archive] • short story by Brandon Sanderson
• While the Gods Laugh • [The Elric Saga] • (1961) • novelette by Michael Moorcock
• Mother of All Russiya • (2012) • short story by Melanie Rawn
• Riding the Shore of the River of Death • [Crown of Stars] • (2009) • short fiction by Kate Elliott
• Bound Man • (2006) • novelette by Mary Robinette Kowal
• The Narcomancer • [The Dreamblood] • (2007) • novelette by N. K. Jemisin
• Strife Lingers in Memory • (2002) • short story by Carrie Vaughn
• The Mad Apprentice • [Black Magician World] • (2010) • novelette by Trudi Canavan
• Otherling • (2000) • novelette by Juliet Marillier
• The Mystery Knight • [Dunk and Egg • 3] • novella by George R. R. Martin (variant of The Mystery Knight: A Tale of the Seven Kingdoms 2010)