As with any book, the volume you hold in your hands was created by a number of people. I’d like to thank Susan Buckley and the entire team at the MIT Press for so kindly inviting me to create a new volume for the venerable Twelve Tomorrows series, giving me the freedom to develop the idea I had for it, and for doing all the hard work of bringing it to print. As always, I’d like to thank my family and friends for their support, without which I could hardly be a writer or editor. My immense gratitude to Vajra Chandrasekera, Samit Basu, Cassandra Khaw, Ganzeer, Lavanya Lakshminarayan, Sloane Leong, Bruce Sterling, Aliette de Bodard, Wole Talabi, and Lavie Tidhar for working so hard, through the variety of storms life sends our way, to create such a brilliant set of stories. Thank you to Archita Mittra and Neil Clarke for agreeing to interview, and be interviewed, under a punishingly tight schedule. Thank you to Diana Scherer for contributing the beautiful art in these pages. Thank you to Jonathan Strahan for his invaluable guidance and advice during the editing of this anthology. To all of those who were involved with the project but ended up not being a part of it because of circumstances beyond anyone’s control: your work is greatly appreciated, and I hope to work with you all again. And finally, as always, thank you to all of you, the readers, without whom all of this is pointless.