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• Introduction (The 2020 Look at Space Opera Book) • (2020) • essay by Allan Kaster
• On the Orion Line • [Xeelee] • (2000) • novelette by Stephen Baxter
• The Days Between • [Coyote Trilogy] • (2001) • novelette by Allen Steele
• Slow Life • (2002) • novelette by Michael Swanwick
• The Third Party • (2004) • novelette by David Moles
• Mayflower II • [Xeelee] • (2004) • novella by Stephen Baxter
• Bright Red Star • (2005) • short story by Bud Sparhawk
• Dead Men Walking • [The Quiet War] • (2006) • novelette by Paul J. McAuley
• Glory • (2007) • novelette by Greg Egan
• Saving Tiamaat • [Buonarotti Transit] • (2007) • short story by Gwyneth Jones
• Jonas and the Fox • (2016) • novelette by Rich Larson
• Boojum • [Boojum] • (2008) • short story by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
• Extracurricular Activities • [The Machineries of Empire] • (2017) • novelette by Yoon Ha Lee
• City of the Dead • [Jackaroo] • (2008) • novelette by Paul J. McAuley
• By the Warmth of Their Calculus • (2019) • novelette by Tobias S. Buckell
• The Hero • [Virga] • (2008) • novelette by Karl Schroeder
• The Island • [Sunflower Cycle] • (2009) • novelette by Peter Watts
• The Ice Owl • [The Twenty Planets] • (2011) • novella by Carolyn Ives Gilman
• Weep for Day • (2012) • novelette by Indrapramit Das
• Someday • (2014) • short story by James Patrick Kelly
• Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan • (2015) • novelette by Ian McDonald