Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Introduction (The Book of Swords) • essay by Gardner Dozois
• The Best Man Wins • novelette by Tom Holt [as by K. J. Parker]
• Her Father's Sword • [Realms of the Elderlings] • novelette by Robin Hobb
• The Hidden Girl • novelette by Ken Liu
• The Sword of Destiny • [Baldemar] • novelette by Matthew Hughes
• "I Am a Handsome Man," said Apollo Crow • [Spiritwalker] • novelette by Kate Elliott
• The Triumph of Virtue • [Quillifer] • novelette by Walter Jon Williams
• The Mocking Tower • novelette by Daniel Abraham
• Hrunting • novelette by C. J. Cherryh
• A Long, Cold Trail • [Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz] • novelette by Garth Nix
• When I Was a Highwayman • [The World of Riverside] • novelette by Ellen Kushner
• The Smoke of Gold Is Glory • novelette by Scott Lynch
• The Colgrid Conundrum • novelette by Rich Larson
• The King's Evil • novelette by Elizabeth Bear
• Waterfalling • [Gorel of Goliris] • novelette by Lavie Tidhar
• The Sword Tyraste • novelette by Cecelia Holland
• The Sons of the Dragon • [Targaryen History] • novelette by George R. R. Martin