Contents (view Concise Listing)

• ix • Foreword (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015) • essay by John Joseph Adams
• xvii • Introduction: Launching Rockets • essay by Joe Hill
• 1 • How to Get Back to the Forest • (2014) • short story by Sofia Samatar
• 14 • Help Me Follow My Sister into the Land of the Dead • (2014) • short story by Carmen Maria Machado
• 24 • Tortoiseshell Cats Are Not Refundable • (2014) • short story by Cat Rambo
• 34 • The Bad Graft • (2014) • novelette by Karen Russell
• 54 • A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i • (2014) • novelette by Alaya Dawn Johnson
• 79 • Each to Each • (2014) • novelette by Seanan McGuire
• 97 • Ogres of East Africa • (2014) • short story by Sofia Samatar
• 107 • Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology • (2014) • short story by Theodora Goss
• 124 • Sleeper • (2014) • short story by Jo Walton
• 134 • How the Marquis Got His Coat Back • [London Below] • (2014) • novelette by Neil Gaiman
• 160 • Windows • (2014) • short story by Susan Palwick
• 168 • The Thing About Shapes to Come • (2014) • short story by Adam-Troy Castro
• 181 • We Are the Cloud • (2014) • novelette by Sam J. Miller
• 202 • The Blue Afternoon That Lasted Forever • (2014) • short story by Daniel H. Wilson
• 212 • Skullpocket • (2014) • novelette by Nathan Ballingrud
• 242 • I Can See Right Through You • (2014) • novelette by Kelly Link
• 268 • The Empties • (2014) • novelette by Jess Row
• 288 • The One They Took Before • (2014) • short story by Kelly Sandoval
• 297 • The Relive Box • (2015) • novelette by T. Coraghessan Boyle [as by T. C. Boyle]
• 314 • How to Become a Robot in 12 Easy Steps • (2014) • short story by A. Merc Rustad
• 343 • Other Notable Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories of 2014 • essay by John Joseph Adams