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• 7 • Introduction (Clarkesworld: Year Nine Volume One) • essay by Neil Clarke
• 9 • Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight • [Universe of Xuya] • (2015) • short story by Aliette de Bodard
• 23 • Cameron Rhyder's Legs • (2014) • short story by Matthew Kressel
• 36 • Cassandra • (2015) • short story by Ken Liu
• 47 • Indelible • (2015) • short story by Gwendolyn Clare
• 53 • Slowly Builds An Empire • (2015) • short story by Naim Kabir
• 66 • The Last Surviving Gondola Widow • (2015) • short story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• 78 • Ether • (2015) • novelette by Zhang Ran (trans. of
  以太^?Yǐtài
  Yitai
  2012)
• 106 • A Universal Elegy • (2015) • short story by
  Tang Fei^?糖匪
  (trans. of
  完整的爱^?Wánzhěng de ài
  Wanzheng de ai
  2011)
• 120 • All Original Brightness • (2015) • short story by Mike Buckley
• 130 • No Vera There • (2014) • short story by Dominica Phetteplace
• 138 • Fatima's Wound • (2014) • short story by Kali Wallace
• 146 • Seeking Boarder for Rm w/ Attached Bathroom, Must Be Willing to Live with Ghosts ($500 / Berkeley) • (2014) • short story by Rahul Kanakia
• 154 • The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild • (2015) • novelette by Catherynne M. Valente
• 181 • An Exile of the Heart • (2015) • short story by Jay Lake
• 196 • Lovecraft • (2014) • short story by Helena Bell
• 206 • The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill • (2015) • short story by Kelly Robson
• 218 • Now Dress Me in My Finest Suit and Lay Me in My Casket • (2014) • short story by M. Bennardo
• 222 • Taxidermist in the Underworld • (2014) • short story by Maria Dahvana Headley
• 231 • The Apartment Dweller's Bestiary • (2015) • short story by Kij Johnson
• 240 • Pithing Needle • (2014) • short story by E. Catherine Tobler
• 247 • Coming of the Light • (2015) • novelette by Chen Qiufan (trans. of
  开光^?Kāiguāng
  2012)
• 265 • Pernicious Romance • (2014) • short story by Robert Reed
• 278 • The Magician and Laplace's Demon • (2014) • novelette by Tom Crosshill
• 295 • The Long Haul, from The Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009 • (2015) • short story by Ken Liu (variant of The Long Haul: From the ANNALS OF TRANSPORTATION, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009 2014)
• 309 • Meshed • (2015) • short story by Rich Larson
• 317 • Cat Pictures Please • [CatNet] • (2015) • short story by Naomi Kritzer