Table of Contents

Introduction

Future Tense Editors

Mother of Invention

Nnedi Okorafor

No Me Dejes

Mark Oshiro

When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis

Annalee Newitz

When We Were Patched

Deji Bryce Olukotun

Domestic Violence

Madeline Ashby

Mr. Thursday

Emily St. John Mandel

A Brief and Fearful Star

Carmen Maria Machado

Overvalued

Mark Stasenko

Safe Surrender

Meg Elison

Lions and Gazelles

Hannu Rajaniemi

Burned-Over Territory

Lee Konstantinou

Mika Model

Paolo Bacigalupi

The Starfish Girl

Maureen McHugh

The Minnesota Diet

Charlie Jane Anders

About the Contributors

About the Editors