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• v • Introduction (Strange Wars: Speculative Fiction of Coalitions in Conflict) • essay by Don Miasek
• 1 • Ballad of the Low-Flight Hauler • short story by Matthew Bailey
• 21 • Pyrrha • (2020) • short story by Antony Paschos
• 38 • Drone Wars • short story by Charles Robertson, Jr.
• 44 • The Wolf, the Serpent, and the Hag • short story by F. C. Stanley
• 54 • The Pilgrim, or, One Star: Would Definitely Not Recommend • short story by Rebekah Postupak
• 68 • Burial Detail • short story by Karl Dandenell
• 73 • The Last Khimaira • short story by M. O. Pirson
• 86 • Mercy Comes Last to the Vigilante • short story by Stewart C. Baker
• 100 • Star Dust • short story by Phil Temples
• 105 • Graft Mage • short story by William J. Broom
• 126 • How to Check If Your Peacekeeper 2000 Is Loaded • short story by David F. Schultz
• 130 • A Taste of Home • short story by Eva Schultz
• 136 • Little Lives Rounded by Sleep • short story by Matt McHugh
• 162 • Limb from Limb • short story by John A. Frochio
• 170 • The Mytilenian Delay • (2016) • short story by Neil James Hudson
• 181 • The Day the Rockets Flew • short story by John E. DeLaughter
• 187 • One Night in a Sushi Bar of Uncertain Parameters • short story by D. K. Latta
• 203 • Border Skirmish • short story by Dave D'Alessio
• 217 • Printed Guns and Sold Schematics • short story by S. J. Klapecki
• 229 • All the King's Men • short story by James Wood
• 246 • Hey Diddle Diddle • short story by Sandy Parsons
• 250 • The Dreamer in the Dark • short story by Mike Adamson
• 268 • Invasion • short story by Gordon Cash
• 272 • A Question of Policy • short story by David McGilveray
• 292 • All the Heroes • short story by Liam Hogan
• 294 • We Who Died in Glory • short story by N. C. Krueger
• 305 • The Last Joke • short story by Edmund Schluessel
• 315 • Notes & Discussion Questions • essay by uncredited