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• Introduction (Wastelands: The New Apocalypse) • essay by John Joseph Adams
• Bullet Point • short fiction by Elizabeth Bear
• The Red Thread • (2016) • short story by Sofia Samatar
• Expedition 83 • short fiction by Wendy N. Wagner
• The Last to Matter • (2018) • novelette by Adam-Troy Castro
• Not This War, Not This World • short story by Jonathan Maberry
• Where Would You Be Now • [The Bannerless Saga] • novelette by Carrie Vaughn (variant of Where Would You Be Now? 2018)
• The Elephants' Crematorium • (2018) • short story by Timothy Mudie
• Bones of Gossamer • short fiction by Hugh Howey
• As Good As New • (2014) • short story by Charlie Jane Anders
• One Day Only • short fiction by Tananarive Due
• Black, Their Regalia • (2016) • short story by Darcie Little Badger
• The Plague • (2013) • short story by Ken Liu
• Four Kittens • short fiction by Jeremiah Tolbert
• Eyes of the Flood • short story by Susan Jane Bigelow (variant of The Eyes of the Flood 2018)
• The Last Garden • (2017) • novelette by Jack Skillingstead
• Through Sparks in Morning's Dawn • short fiction by Tobias S. Buckell
• Cannibal Acts • (2017) • short story by Maureen F. McHugh
• Echo • short fiction by Veronica Roth
• Shooting the Apocalypse • (2014) • novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• The Hungry Earth • (2013) • short story by Carmen Maria Machado
• Last Chance • (2017) • novelette by Nicole Kornher-Stace
• A Series of Images from a Ruined City at the End of The World • short fiction by Violet Allen
• Come on Down • short fiction by Meg Elison
• Don't Pack Hope • (2018) • short story by Emma Osborne
• Polly Wanna Cracker? • short fiction by Greg van Eekhout
• Otherwise • (2012) • novelette by Nisi Shawl
• And the Rest of Us Wait • (2016) • novelette by Corinne Duyvis
• The Last Child • short fiction by Scott Sigler
• So Sharp, So Bright, So Final • short fiction by Seanan McGuire
• Burn 3 • (2013) • novelette by Kami Garcia
• Snow • (2015) • short story by Dale Bailey
• The Air Is Chalk • short fiction by Richard Kadrey
• The Future Is Blue • [Garbagetown • 1] • (2016) • novelette by Catherynne M. Valente
• Francisca Montoya's Almanac of Things That Can Kill You • (2014) • short story by Shaenon K. Garrity