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• Introduction (Stories of Hope and Wonder) • essay by Ian Whates
• Last Contact • (2007) • short story by Stephen Baxter
• Slink-Thinking • (2014) • short story by Frances Hardinge
• Gossamer • (2009) • short story by Ian Whates
• The Feather Dress • (2013) • short story by Lisa Tuttle
• The Man Who Swallowed Himself • (2018) • short fiction by Chris Beckett
• Fat Man in the Bardo • (2019) • short story by Ken MacLeod
• The Kings of Eternity • [The Kings of Eternity] • (2000) • short story by Eric Brown
• Muscadet Kiss • (2019) • short story by Michèle Roberts
• Dead Space • (2013) • short story by George Mann
• The Trace • (2011) • short story by Christopher Priest
• Golden Wing, Silver Eye • [Three Dog Dreaming] • (2015) • short story by Cat Hellisen
• The Golden Nose • (2014) • short fiction by Neil Williamson
• On Ilkley Moor • (2014) • short story by Alison Littlewood
• About Helen • (2018) • short story by Tade Thompson
• Iphigenia in Aulis • [The Hungry Plague] • (2012) • novelette by Mike Carey
• Just Watch Me • short fiction by Lesley Glaister
• The Family Football • (1991) • short fiction by Ian R. MacLeod
• The Grave-Digger's Tale • (1989) • short story by Simon Clark (variant of The Gravedigger's Tale)
• The All-Nighter • (2008) • short fiction by Mark Morris
• Her Seal Skin Coat • (2019) • short story by Lauren Beukes
• A Conclusion • (2018) • short fiction by Paul Cornell
• Liberty Bird • (2016) • short story by Jaine Fenn
• The Ki-anna • [Buonarotti Transit] • (2010) • novelette by Gwyneth Jones
• Scienceville • (2015) • novelette by Gary Gibson
• The Sphere • (2016) • short story by Juliet E. McKenna
• An Eligible Boy • [India 2047] • (2008) • novelette by Ian McDonald
• The Quick Child • (2012) • short fiction by Jane Rogers
• Trademark Bugs: A Legal History • (2014) • short story by Adam Roberts
• Working on the Ward • short fiction by Tim Pears
• During the Dance • (2015) • short fiction by Mark Lawrence
• Out of the Woods • (1996) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• Trick of the Light • (2011) • short story by Tim Lebbon
• Roman Games • (1988) • short story by Anne Gay
• 44: Digits • short fiction by Robert Shearman
• The Fox Maiden • (2011) • short story by Priya Sharma
• Roads of Silver, Paths of Gold • (2018) • short story by
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• All Deaths Well Intention'd • (2019) • short story by R. J. Barker
• Epilogue: England, Summer 1558 • short fiction by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
• The Christmas Repentance of the Mole Butcher of Tetbury • short fiction by Aliya Whiteley
• Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations Of The World, Part V: A Voyage To The Island Of The Wolves • short fiction by Philip Palmer
• Barking Mad • (2003) • short story by Ian Watson
• Lady with a Rose • (2019) • short fiction by Reggie Oliver
• Missing • short fiction by Blake Morrison
• What We Do Sometimes, Without Thinking • (2010) • short story by Mark West
• Events • (2015) • short fiction by Stan Nicholls
• Wars of Worldcraft • short fiction by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Fixer, Worker, Singer • (2017) • short story by Natalia Theodoridou
• Witness • (2018) • short fiction by Kim Lakin-Smith
• Unravel • (2013) • short story by Ren Warom
• Like Clockwork • (2015) • short story by Tim Major
• A Million Reasons Why • (2019) • short fiction by Nick Wood
• The Road to the Sea • (2017) • short story by Lavie Tidhar
• Ten Love Songs to Change the World • (2016) • novelette by Peter F. Hamilton