Table of Contents

• Introduction, Jonathan Strahan
• The Future is Blue, Catherynne M. Valente
• Mika Model, Paolo Bacigalupi
• Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik
• Two’s Company, Joe Abercrombie
• You Make Pattaya, Rich Larson
• You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay, Alyssa Wong
• A Salvaging of Ghosts, Aliette de Bodard
• Even the Crumbs Were Delicious, Daryl Gregory
• Number Nine Moon, Alex Irvine
• Things with Beards, Sam J. Miller
• Successor, Usurper, Replacement, Alice Sola Kim
• Laws of Night and Silk, Seth Dickinson
• Touring with the Alien, Carolyn Ives Gilman
• The Great Detective, Delia Sherman
• Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home, Genevieve Valentine
• Those Shadows Laugh, Geoff Ryman
• Seasons of Glass and Iron, Amal El-Mohtar
• The Art of Space Travel, Nina Allan
• Whisper Road (Murder Ballad No. 9), Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Red Dirt Witch, N. K. Jemisin
• Red as Blood and White as Bone, Theodora Goss
• Terminal, Lavie Tidhar
• Foxfire, Foxfire, Yoon Ha Lee
• Elves of Antarctica, Paul McAuley
• The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knight, E. Lily Yu
• Seven Birthdays, Ken Liu
• The Visitor from Taured, Ian R. MacLeod
• Fable, Charles Yu
• Honourable Mentions

About the Author

Jonathan Strahan is a World Fantasy Award award-winning editor, anthologist, and podcaster. He has edited more than 70 books, is reviews editor for Locus, a consulting editor for Tor.com, and co-host and producer of the Hugo-nominated Coode Street Podcast.