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THE FIFTH DRAGON • Ian McDonald
THE DAYS OF THE WAR, AS RED AS BLOOD, AS DARK AS BILE • Aliette de Bodard
THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MAWE AT CASSINI • Chaz Brenchley
THE WOMAN FROM THE OCEAN • Karl Bunker
SHOOTING THE APOCALYPSE • Paolo Bacigalupi
THE HAND IS QUICKER • Elizabeth Bear
THE MAN WHO SOLD THE MOON • Cory Doctorow
VLADIMIR CHONG CHOOSES TO DIE • Lavie Tidhar
BESIDE THE DAMNED RIVER • D. J. Cockburn
WHITE CURTAIN • Pavel Amnuel, translated by Anatoly Belilovsky
PASSAGE OF EARTH • Michael Swanwick
AMICAE AETERNUM • Ellen Klages
IN BABELSBERG • Alastair Reynolds
GRAND JETÉ (THE GREAT LEAP) • Rachel Swirsky
LOS PIRATAS DEL MAR DE PLASTICO (PIRATES OF THE PLASTIC OCEAN) • Paul Graham Raven
RED LIGHTS, AND RAIN • Gareth L. Powell
THE PRODIGAL SON • Allen M. Steele
THE LONG HAUL, FROM THE ANNALS OF TRANSPORTATION, THE PACIFIC MONTHLY, MAY 2009 • Ken Liu