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