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• xi • Introduction: Everybody Loves a Rogue • essay by George R. R. Martin
• 4 • Tough Times All Over • [The First Law Universe] • novelette by Joe Abercrombie
• 42 • What Do You Do? • novelette by Gillian Flynn
• 74 • The Inn of the Seven Blessings • [Raffalon] • (2014) • novelette by Matthew Hughes
• 106 • Bent Twig • non-genre • [Hap Collins and Leonard Pine] • novelette by Joe R. Lansdale
• 142 • Tawny Petticoats • [Darger and Surplus • 4] • novelette by Michael Swanwick
• 176 • Provenance • non-genre • novelette by David W. Ball
• 208 • Roaring Twenties • novelette by Carrie Vaughn
• 238 • A Year and a Day in Old Theradane • novelette by Scott Lynch
• 282 • Bad Brass • non-genre • novella by Bradley Denton
• 344 • Heavy Metal • [Kilgore Jones] • novelette by Cherie Priest
• 370 • The Meaning of Love • novelette by Daniel Abraham
• 400 • A Better Way to Die • [Jonathan Hamilton • 4] • novelette by Paul Cornell
• 432 • Ill Seen in Tyre • [The Seven Wonders] • novelette by Steven Saylor
• 464 • A Cargo of Ivories • [Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz] • novelette by Garth Nix
• 492 • Diamonds from Tequila • [Dagmar Shaw] • novella by Walter Jon Williams
• 546 • The Caravan to Nowhere • [Tales of Alaric the Minstrel] • novelette by Phyllis Eisenstein
• 586 • The Curious Affair of the Dead Wives • [Jesperson and Lane • 0.2] • novelette by Lisa Tuttle
• 630 • How the Marquis Got His Coat Back • [London Below] • novelette by Neil Gaiman
• 662 • Now Showing • novella by Connie Willis
• 712 • The Lightning Tree • [The Kingkiller Chronicle] • novella by Patrick Rothfuss
• 774 • The Rogue Prince, or, A King's Brother • [Targaryen History] • novelette by George R. R. Martin