Table of Contents

Introduction: A State of the Short SF Field in 2016

The Visitor from Taured

Extraction Request

A Good Home

Prodigal

Ten Days

Terminal

Panic City

Last Gods

HigherWorks

A Strange Loop

Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse

Pearl

The Metal Demimonde

The Iron Tactician

The Mighty Slinger

They Have All One Breath

Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea

And Then, One Day, the Air was Full of Voices

The Three Lives of Sonata James

The Charge and the Storm

Parables of Infinity

Ten Poems for the Mossums, One for the Man

You Make Pattaya

Number Nine Moon

Things with Beards

Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit—Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts

Touring with the Alien

2016 Recommended Reading List