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• Introduction: When Destiny Calls • essay by Colin Sullivan (editor)
• A Pocket Full of Phlogiston • (2014) • short story by S. R. Algernon
• The Chair • (2009) • short fiction by Madeline Ashby
• Recoper • (2007) • short story by Neal Asher
• The Cleverest Man in the World • (2010) • short story by Tony Ballantyne
• Formic Gender Disorder • (2007) • short story by Barrington J. Bayley
• Annie Webber • (2008) • short story by Elizabeth Bear
• The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Panda • (2011) • short story by Jacey Bedford
• Gifts of the Magi • (2011) • short story by Anatoly Belilovsky
• Caveat Time Traveller • (2009) • short story by Gregory Benford
• Eating with Integrity • (2011) • short story by David Berreby
• Expectancy Theory • (2010) • short story by Ananyo Bhattacharya
• To My Father • (2013) • short story by David G. Blake
• War of the Roses • (2010) • short story by Polenth Blake
• likeMe • (2010) • short story by Keith Brooke
• In the Recovery Room • (2009) • short story by Eric Brown
• The Universe Reef • (2011) • short story by Tobias S. Buckell [as by Tobias Buckell]
• A Kiss Isn't Just a Kiss • (2006) • short story by Steve Carper
• Life, Abundant and with Simple Joy • (2007) • short story by Sarah K. Castle
• Reach for the Stars • (2013) • short story by Priya Chand
• Tea with Jillian • (2011) • short story by Brenda Cooper
• Squealer • (2012) • short story by Robert Nathan Correll
• Acting Up • (2008) • short story by Elizabeth Counihan
• You, in Emulation • (2011) • short story by Kathryn Cramer
• Jenna's Clocks • (2010) • short story by T. F. Davenport
• High on the Hog • (2010) • short story by Sean Davidson
• Pop-Ups • (2014) • short story by Robert Dawson
• The Omniplus Ultra • (2010) • short story by Paul Di Filippo (variant of The Omniplus Ultra!)
• The Gower Street Cuckoos • (2009) • short story by Joe Dunckley
• Transmission Received • (2012) • short story by Peter J. Enyeart
• A Perfect Drug • (2011) • short story by Dan Erlanson
• Words and Music • (2012) • short story by Ronald D. Ferguson
• Recursion • (2010) • short story by Simon Quellen Field
• Non-Skid • (2011) • short story by John Frizell
• Corrective Action • (2010) • short story by John Gilbey
• Health Tips for Traveller • (2010) • short story by David W. Goldman
• The Chess Players • (2008) • short story by Dan Gollub
• Buzz Off • (2013) • short story by John Grant
• Man of Steel • short story by rpg [as by Richard P Grant]
• Midnight in the Cathedral of Time • (2012) • short story by Preston Grassmann
• The Best of Us • (2013) • short story by Lee Hallison
• Press '1' to Begin • (2009) • short story by Nye Joell Hardy
• Fine-Tuning the Universe • (2009) • short story by Merrie Haskell
• Me Am Petri • (2010) • short story by Martin Hayes
• Event Horizon • (2011) • short story by Jeff Hecht
• The Perfect Egg • (2011) • short story by Tania Hershman
• The Ostracons of Europa • (2013) • short story by Ken Hinckley
• Her Name Was Jane • (2011) • short story by Joses Ho
• Midnight at the A & E • (2012) • short story by Taik Hobson
• Trying to Let Go • (2010) • short story by Kerstin Hoppenhaus
• World Wire Web • (2010) • short story by Gareth D. Jones
• Ted Agonistes • (2011) • short story by Rahul Kanakia
• Shoppers • (2008) • short story by James Patrick Kelly
• The Problem of Junior • (2009) • short story by Swapna Kishore
• Warez • (2007) • short fiction by David Langford
• Stay Special • (2010) • short story by Susan Lanigan
• Dead Yellow • (2008) • short story by Tanith Lee
• A Good Time • (2011) • short story by Shelly Li
• Mortar Flowers • (2013) • short story by Jessica May Lin
• The Stuff We Don't Do • (2014) • short story by Marissa Lingen
• Monkeys • (2012) • short story by Ken Liu
• A Game of Self-Deceit • (2012) • short story by Clayton Locke
• Succussion • (2007) • short story by Steve Longworth
• After Experiment Seven • (2012) • short story by Michael W. Lucht
• Escapism • (2009) • short story by Nick Mamatas
• Hard Man to Surprise • (2009) • short story by David Marusek
• Twitterspace • (2011) • short story by William Meikle
• Picnic with Ants • (2012) • short story by Mark W. Moffett
• Be Swift, My Darling • (2011) • short story by John Moran
• Can of Wormholes • (2008) • short fiction by Neale Morison
• George and Priti • (2010) • short story by Anand Odhav Naranbhai
• Frog in a Bucket • (2007) • short fiction by Gareth Owens
• For Your Information • (2013) • short story by Conor Powers-Smith
• Invisible • (2012) • short story by João Ramalho-Santos
• A Better Mousetrap • (2007) • short story by Mike Resnick
• The Pair-Bond Imperative • (2008) • short story by Jennifer Rohn
• Immeasurable • (2013) • short story by H. E. Roulo
• The Rumination on What Isn't • (2013) • short story by Alex Shvartsman
• Unglued • (2011) • short story by Amber D. Sistla
• Out of the Blue • (2011) • short story by Mohamad Atif Slim
• Steve Sepp, Tasty! Tasty! • (2011) • short story by Matthew Sanborn Smith
• The Silver Bullet and the Golden Goose • (2010) • short story by Norman Spinrad
• Dark They Were, and Strange Inside • (2010) • short story by Vaughan Stanger
• Survivors and Saviours • (2013) • short story by Philip T. Starks
• The Day We Made History • (2007) • short fiction by Ian Stewart
• The Greatest Science-Fiction Story Ever Written • (2010) • short story by Eric James Stone
• 1-9-4-Blue-3-7-2-6-Gamma-Tetrahedron • (2012) • short story by Ian Randal Strock
• Extremes • (2011) • short story by Rachel Swirsky
• White Lies • (2012) • short story by Grace Tang
• Expatriate • (2009) • short story by Julian Tang
• 21st-Century Girl • (2012) • short story by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• A Sentence to Life • (2011) • short story by Igor Teper
• Life in a Monastic Lab • (2009) • short story by Joost Uitdehaag
• Let Slip the Dogs • (2012) • short story by William T. Vandemark
• To All Sister Capsules • (2009) • short story by S. C. Virtes [as by Scott Virtes]
• Glass Future • (2012) • short story by Deborah Walker
• The Drained World • (2010) • short story by Ian Watson
• A Piratical Sabbatical • (2007) • short story by Ian Whates
• The Front Line • (2013) • short story by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
• The Cambrian • (2011) • short story by George Zebrowski
• Here Be Monsters • (2011) • short story by Stephanie Zvan