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• Space Opera Then and Now • essay by Rich Horton
• The Knight of Chains, the Deuce of Stars • (2013) • short story by Yoon Ha Lee
• The Wreck of the Godspeed • (2004) • novella by James Patrick Kelly
• Saving Tiamaat • [Buonarotti Transit] • (2007) • short story by Gwyneth Jones
• Six Lights Off Green Scar • (2005) • short story by Gareth L. Powell
• Glory • (2007) • novelette by Greg Egan
• The Mote Dancer and the Firelife • (2012) • short story by Chris Willrich
• On Rickety Thistlewaite • (2010) • short story by Michael F. Flynn
• War Without End • (2010) • short story by Una McCormack
• Finisterra • (2007) • novelette by David Moles
• Seven Years from Home • (2010) • novelette by Naomi Novik
• Plotters and Shooters • [Mars (Kage Baker)] • (2007) • novelette by Kage Baker
• The Muse of Empires Lost • (2006) • novelette by Paul M. Berger [as by Paul Berger]
• Boojum • [Boojum] • (2008) • short story by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
• Lehr, Rex • (2006) • novelette by Jay Lake
• Cracklegrackle • [Natural History] • (2009) • novelette by Justina Robson
• Hideaway • [Merlin (Alastair Reynolds) • 1] • (2000) • novelette by Alastair Reynolds
• Isabel of the Fall • [Breathmoss Universe] • short fiction by Ian R. MacLeod [as by Ian McLeod]
• Precious Mental • [The Great Ship Universe] • (2013) • novella by Robert Reed
• The Two Sisters in Exile • [Universe of Xuya] • (2012) • short fiction by Aliette de Bodard (variant of Two Sisters in Exile)
• Lode Stars • [Exodus (Tidhar)] • (2010) • short story by Lavie Tidhar
• Silent Bridge, Pale Cascade • (2013) • short story by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
• The Tear • (2008) • novella by Ian McDonald
• Biographies (Space Opera) • essay by Rich Horton