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• Foreword (Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin) • essay by David Naimon
• Introduction (Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin) • essay by Susan DeFreitas
• A Lay of Light and Anger • short fiction by Stewart C. Baker
• The Night Bazaar for Women Becoming Reptiles • (2016) • short story by Rachael K. Jones
• The Wake • short fiction by James Mapes
• Black As Thread • short fiction by Jessie Kwak
• A Woven Womb • short fiction by C. A. McDonald
• Prothalamion • short fiction by Tracy Manaster
• The Kingdom of the Belly • short fiction by Michelle Ruiz Keil
• Ib & Nib and the Ice Berries • short fiction by Stevan Allred
• Old Souls • (2017) • novelette by Fonda Lee
• The One Who Don't Walk Away • short fiction by Rene Denfeld
• The Polar Explorer • short fiction by Leni Zumas
• Birds • (2010) • short story by Benjamin Parzybok
• Homeless Gary Busey • short fiction by Timothy O'Leary
• Finding Joan • (2010) • short story by David D. Levine
• Becoming Human • short fiction by Gigi Little
• Bee, Keeper • short fiction by Jason LaPier
• KwaZulu-Natal • short fiction by Juhea Kim
• My Uncle's Favor • short fiction by Kesha Ajose-Fisher
• Ib & Nib and the Golden Ring • short fiction by Stevan Allred
• Neuron • short fiction by Lidia Yuknavitch
• Laddie Come Home • juvenile • (2015) • short story by Curtis C. Chen
• The Way Things Were • short fiction by Jonah Barrett
• Valuable • short fiction by Mo Daviau
• Hard Choices • (2009) • short story by Tina Connolly
• When Strangers Meet • (1995) • short story by Sonia Orin Lyris
• JoyBe's Last Dance • short fiction by Jason Arias
• The Taster • short fiction by T. J. Acena
• Let It Die • short fiction by Arwen Spicer
• Each Cool Silver Orb a Gift • short fiction by Nicole Rosevear
• Wenonah's Gift • (1986) • short story by Molly Gloss
• Ib & Nib and the Hemmens Trees • short fiction by Stevan Allred