CONTENTS

Introduction: A Map or Maybe Not

“Lost Lake” – Emma Straub and Peter Straub

“White Lines on a Green Field” – Catherynne M. Valente

“Trickster” – Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due

“Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies” – Brooke Bolander

“A Memory of Wind” – Rachel Swirsky

“Leda” – M. Rickert

“Chivalry” – Neil Gaiman

“The God of Au” – Ann Leckie

“Faint Voices, Increasingly Desperate” – Anya Johanna DeNiro

“Ogres of East Africa” – Sofia Samatar

“Ys” – Aliette de Bodard

“The Gorgon” – Tanith Lee

“Merlin Dreams in the Mondream Wood” – Charles de Lint

“Calypso in Berlin” – Elizabeth Hand

“Seeds” – Lisa L. Hannett and Angela Slatter

“Wonder-Worker-of-the-World” – Nisi Shawl

“Thesea and Astaurius” – Priya Sharma

“Foxfire, Foxfire” – Yoon Ha Lee

“Owl vs. the Neighborhood Watch” – Darcie Little Badger

“How to Survive an Epic Journey” – Tansy Rayner Roberts

“Simargl and the Rowan Tree” – Ekaterina Sedia

“The Ten Suns” – Ken Liu

“Armless Maidens of the American West” – Genevieve Valentine

“Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream” – Maria Dahvana Headley

“Zhuyin” – John Shirley

“Immortal Snake” – Rachel Pollack

“A Wolf in Iceland Is the Child of a Lie” – Sonya Taaffe

About the Authors

About the Editor

Acknowledgements