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•  Strange California • interior artwork by J. Daniel Batt
• 11 • Foreword: To the Frontier • essay by J. Daniel Batt and Jaym Gates
• 15 • Introduction: Why California? • essay by A. V. Flox and Yonatan Zunger
• 27 • The Great Tarantula Migration of 1972 • short story by Seanan McGuire
• 41 • Unsettlers of the Yerba Buena • short story by Armel Dagorn
• 61 • Of Webs and Windows in Pescadero • short story by Natania Barron
• 87 • Guardian of the Golden Gate • short fiction by Loren Rhoads
• 109 • Magpie's Curse • short story by Marion Deeds
• 127 • Vines Dig Deep • short story by Laura Anne Gilman
• 141 • Tommy Bones and a Packet of Earth • short story by Suzanne J. Willis
• 153 • All This'll Be Yours • short fiction by Lance Shoeman
• 175 • A Sea Monster in the Bathtub • short story by Tim Pratt
• 191 • The Kodiak Bell • short story by Nick Mamatas
• 203 • From Something Emerging • short story by S. Qiouyi Lu
• 219 • Uncanny Valley • novelette by Chaz Brenchley
• 249 • The One Thing I Can Never Tell Julie • short story by Laura Blackwell
• 263 • The Panther Lady's Incredible True Tale of Horror! • short story by K. A. Rochnik
• 283 • #whiteknight vs. #megadisruptor • short story by Richard E. Dansky [as by Richard Dansky]
• 301 • Five Dollars for a Ticket • short story by James Van Pelt
• 311 • If It Were Meant to Last • short story by Juliette Wade
• 323 • The Coffin Birth • short story by Patricia Lundy
• 339 • Heartsong • short story by D. Morgenstern
• 355 • In Loving Memory • short story by Meg Elison
• 369 • Dreamcatcher • short story by Nancy Holder
• 385 • Five Tales of the Aqueduct • (2014) • short story by Spencer Ellsworth
• 397 • Naranjas Inmortales • short fiction by Ezzy G. Languzzi
• 419 • Salt in Her Hollows • short story by E. Catherine Tobler
• 437 • The Hanging Tree's Shade • short story by Melissa Monks