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• i • Introduction (Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond) • essay by Bill Campbell and Edward Austin Hall
• 1 • I Left My Heart in Skaftafell • (2004) • short story by Victor LaValle
• 12 • Too Many Yesterdays, Not Enough Tomorrows • (2004) • short story by N. K. Jemisin
• 22 • Skin Dragons Talk • (1998) • novelette by Ernest Hogan
• 39 • The Last of Its Kind • short story by Kawika Guillermo
• 41 • Bludgeon • short story by Thaddeus Howze
• 51 • The Farming of Gods • (2013) • short story by Ibi Zoboi
• 60 • The Hungry Earth • short story by Carmen Maria Machado
• 64 • The Half-Wall • (2011) • short story by Rabih Alameddine
• 74 • Unathi Battles the Black Hairballs • (2010) • short story by Lauren Beukes
• 85 • Amma • [Nyumbani Universe] • (1978) • novelette by Charles R. Saunders
• 100 • The Homecoming • short story by Chinelo Onwualu
• 109 • The Voyeur • (2011) • short story by Ran Walker
• 111 • Life-Pod • (2007) • short story by Vandana Singh
• 120 • Four Eyes • (2003) • short story by Tobias S. Buckell (variant of Four-Eyes) [as by Tobias Buckell]
• 131 • The Death Collector • (2011) • short story by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• 134 • Bio-Anger • (2012) • short story by Kiini Ibura Salaam
• 143 • The Runner of n-Vamana • (2013) • short story by Indrapramit Das
• 147 • In the Belly of the Crocodile • (2011) • short story by Minister Faust (variant of The Belly of the Crocodile)
• 152 • Live and Let Live • (2011) • short story by Linda D. Addison
• 153 • The Pavilion of Frozen Women • (1991) • novelette by S. P. Somtow
• 180 • Waking the God of the Mountain • short story by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
• 187 • Culling the Herd • short story by C. Renee Stephens
• 191 • Dances with Ghosts • novelette by Joseph Bruchac
• 205 • Un Aperitivo Col Diavolo • (2007) • short story by Darius James
• 210 • Othello Pop • (2013) • short story by Andaiye Reeves
• 212 • A Brief History of Nonduality Studies • (2012) • short story by Sofia Samatar
• 218 • Protected Entity • (2010) • short story by Daniel José Older
• 229 • The Parrot's Tale • short story by Anil Menon
• 233 • Northern Lights • (2012) • short story by Eden Robinson
• 234 • One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sunlight • novelette by Tade Thompson
• 258 • The Aphotic Ghost • (2011) • short story by Carlos Hernandez
• 266 • The Pillar • (2004) • short story by Farnoosh Moshiri
• 268 • Angels + Cannibals Unite • short story by Greg Tate
• 274 • A Fine Specimen • short story by Lisa Allen-Agostini
• 279 • Between Islands • (2010) • short story by Jaymee Goh
• 293 • Fées des Dents • (2010) • short story by George S. Walker
• 303 • The Taken • (2007) • short story by Tenea D. Johnson
• 312 • The Buzzing • short story by Katherena Vermette
• 314 • Monstro • (2012) • novelette by Junot Díaz
• 330 • Good Boy • (2008) • novelette by Nisi Shawl
• 351 • About the Authors (Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond) • essay by uncredited