Contents

Introduction

Carolyn Ives Gilman

Arkfall

Neil Gaiman

Orange

Kathleen Ann Goonan

Memory Dog

Paolo Bacigalupi

Pump Six

Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette

Boojum

Ted Chiang

Exhalation

M. Rickert

Traitor

Cory Doctorow

The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away

Vandana Singh

Oblivion: A Journey

Robert Reed

The House Left Empty

Michael Swanwick

The Scarecrow’s Boy

Ted Kosmatka

N-Words

Alastair Reynolds

Fury

Ann Halam

Cheats

Jason Sanford

The Ships Like Clouds, Risen by Their Rain

Mary Rosenblum

The Egg Man

Daryl Gregory

Glass

Jeff VanderMeer

Fixing Hanover

Rudy Rucker

Message Found in a Gravity Wave

Karl Schroeder and Tobias S. Buckell

Mitigation

Sue Burke

Spiders

Acknowledgments

About the Editors

Praise

Other Books by David G. Hartwell

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher