Contents (view Concise Listing)

• xi • Foreword (The Long List Anthology) • essay by David Steffen
• 1 • The Breath of War • [Universe of Xuya] • (2014) • short story by Aliette de Bodard
• 19 • When It Ends, He Catches Her • (2014) • short story by Eugie Foster
• 27 • Toad Words • (2014) • short story by Ursula Vernon [as by T. Kingfisher]
• 31 • Makeisha in Time • (2014) • short story by Rachael K. Jones
• 39 • Covenant • (2014) • short story by Elizabeth Bear
• 55 • The Truth About Owls • (2014) • short story by Amal El-Mohtar
• 69 • A Kiss with Teeth • (2014) • short story by Max Gladstone
• 89 • The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family • (2014) • short story by Usman T. Malik
• 105 • This Chance Planet • (2014) • short story by Elizabeth Bear
• 123 • Goodnight Stars • (2014) • short story by Annie Bellet
• 143 • We Are the Cloud • (2014) • novelette by Sam J. Miller
• 165 • The Magician and Laplace's Demon • (2014) • novelette by Tom Crosshill
• 187 • Spring Festival: Happiness, Anger, Love, Sorrow, Joy • (2014) • novelette by Xia Jia (trans. of
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  2044 nian chunjie jiushi
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• 209 • The Husband Stitch • (2014) • novelette by Carmen Maria Machado
• 229 • The Bonedrake's Penance • (2014) • novelette by Yoon Ha Lee
• 253 • The Devil in America • (2014) • novelette by Kai Ashante Wilson
• 289 • The Litany of Earth • [The Innsmouth Legacy • 0] • (2014) • novelette by Ruthanna Emrys
• 317 • A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i • (2014) • novelette by Alaya Dawn Johnson
• 343 • A Year and a Day in Old Theradane • (2014) • novelette by Scott Lynch
• 383 • The Regular • (2014) • novella by Ken Liu
• 429 • Grand Jeté (The Great Leap) • (2014) • novella by Rachel Swirsky