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• Touring with the Alien • (2016) • novelette by Carolyn Ives Gilman
• Laws of Survival • (2007) • novelette by Nancy Kress
• At Play in the Fields • (2011) • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• The Ants of Flanders • (2011) • novella by Robert Reed
• Taking Care of God • (2012) • novelette by Cixin Liu (trans. of
  赡养上帝^?Shànyǎng shàngdì
  Shanyang shangdi
  2005) [as by Liu Cixin]
• Water Scorpions • (2016) • short story by Rich Larson
• The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill • (2015) • short story by Kelly Robson
• Men Are Trouble • (2004) • novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass • (2013) • novelette by Alaya Dawn Johnson
• Bits • (2013) • short story by Naomi Kritzer
• And Never Mind the Watching Ones • (2015) • novelette by Keffy R. M. Kehrli
• Dark Heaven • (2007) • novella by Gregory Benford
• Nine-Tenths of the Law • (2017) • short story by Molly Tanzer
• Five Stages of Grief After the Alien Invasion • (2014) • short story by Caroline M. Yoachim
• Time of the Snake • (2007) • short story by A. M. Dellamonica
• The Fear Gun • (2004) • novelette by Judith Berman
• Tendeléo's Story • [Chaga] • (2000) • novella by Ian McDonald
• The Choice • [Jackaroo] • (2011) • novelette by Paul J. McAuley [as by Paul McAuley]
• Passage of Earth • (2014) • short story by Michael Swanwick
• Reborn • (2014) • novelette by Ken Liu
• Story of Your Life • (1998) • novella by Ted Chiang