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• xiii • Summation: 2015 • essay by Gardner Dozois
• 1 • The Falls • [Luna (Ian McDonald)] • (2015) • short story by Ian McDonald
• 15 • Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight • [Universe of Xuya] • (2015) • short story by Aliette de Bodard
• 29 • Ruins • (2015) • novelette by Eleanor Arnason
• 55 • Another Word for World • (2015) • novelette by Ann Leckie
• 79 • Meshed • (2015) • short story by Rich Larson
• 88 • Emergence • (2015) • novelette by Gwyneth Jones
• 103 • Gypsy • (2015) • novella by Carter Scholz
• 153 • The Astrakhan, the Homburg, and the Red Red Coal • (2015) • novelette by Chaz Brenchley
• 167 • The Muses of Shuyedan-18 • (2015) • short story by Indrapramit Das
• 181 • Bannerless • [The Bannerless Saga] • (2015) • novelette by Carrie Vaughn
• 197 • The Audience • (2015) • novelette by Sean McMullen
• 217 • Rates of Change • (2015) • short story by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck [as by James S. A. Corey]
• 228 • Calved • (2015) • short story by Sam J. Miller
• 238 • Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan • (2015) • novelette by Ian McDonald
• 262 • Consolation • (2015) • short story by John Kessel
• 276 • The Children of Gal • [Arkwright] • (2015) • novella by Allen Steele [as by Allen M. Steele]
• 313 • Today I Am Paul • [Today I Am] • (2015) • short story by Martin L. Shoemaker
• 323 • City of Ash • (2015) • short story by Paolo Bacigalupi
• 328 • Trapping the Pleistocene • (2015) • novelette by James Sarafin
• 356 • Machine Learning • (2015) • novelette by Nancy Kress
• 372 • Inhuman Garbage • [Anniversary Day Saga] • (2015) • novella by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• 420 • Planet of Fear • (2015) • novelette by Paul J. McAuley [as by Paul McAuley]
• 440 • It Takes More Muscles to Frown • (2015) • novelette by Ned Beauman
• 455 • The Daughters of John Demetrius • (2015) • short story by Joe Pitkin
• 465 • Silence Like Diamonds • (2015) • novelette by John Barnes
• 485 • Billy Tumult • (2015) • short story by Nick Harkaway
• 494 • Hello, Hello; Can You Hear Me, Hello • (2015) • short story by Seanan McGuire (variant of Hello, Hello)
• 506 • Capitalism in the 22nd Century or A.I.r. • (2015) • short story by Geoff Ryman
• 517 • Ice • (2015) • short story by Rich Larson
• 525 • The First Gate of Logic • (2015) • short story by Benjamin Rosenbaum
• 536 • In Panic Town, on the Backward Moon • (2015) • short story by Michael F. Flynn
• 551 • The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill • (2015) • short story by Kelly Robson
• 563 • No Placeholder for You, My Love • (2015) • novelette by Nick Wolven
• 579 • The Game of Smash and Recovery • (2015) • short story by Kelly Link
• 590 • A Stopped Clock • (2015) • short story by Madeline Ashby
• 603 • The Citadel of Weeping Pearls • [Universe of Xuya] • (2015) • novella by Aliette de Bodard
• 667 • Honorable Mentions: 2015 • essay by Gardner Dozois