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“Arkfall” copyright © 2008 by Carolyn Ives Gilman.

“Orange” copyright © 2008 by Neil Gaiman.

“Memory Dog” copyright © 2008 by Kathleen Ann Goonan.

“Pump Six” by Paolo Bacigalupi copyright © 2008 by Paolo Bacigalupi. First published in Pump Six and Other Stories (Night Shade Books).

“Boojum” copyright © 2008 by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette.

“Exhalation” copyright © 2008 by Ted Chiang.

“Traitor” copyright @ 2008 by Mary Rickert. First appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2008.

“The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away” copyright © 2008 by CorDocCo Ltd (UK), some rights reserved under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license.

“Oblivion: A Journey” copyright © 2008 by Vandana Singh.

“The House Left Empty” by Robert Reed, copyright © 2008 by Dell Magazines. First published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, April–May 2008. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Scarecrow’s Boy” by Michael Swanwick copyright © 2008 by Michael Swanwick. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

“N-Words” copyright © 2008 by Ted Kosmatka.

“Fury” copyright © 2008 by Alastair Reynolds.

“Cheats” by Ann Halam, copyright © 2008 by Gwyneth Jones. First published in The Starry Rift, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Viking Juvenile, April 2008.

“The Ships Like Clouds, Risen by Their Rain” copyright © 2008 by Jason Sanford.

“The Egg Man” copyright © 2008 by Mary Rosenblum. First published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 2008.

“Glass” copyright © 2008 by Daryl Gregory.

“Fixing Hanover” by Jeff VanderMeer copyright © 2008 by Jeff VanderMeer. First published in Extraordinary Engines.

“Message Found in a Gravity Wave” copyright © 2008 by Rudy Rucker. First appeared in Nature Physics, August 2008, and is reprinted courtesy of Macmillan Publishers, Ltd.

“Mitigation” copyright © 2008 by Karl Schroeder and Tobias S. Buckell.

“Spiders” copyright © 2008 by Sue Burke.

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