‘______, and Alec Austin, “The Young Necromancer’s Guide to ReCapiatation,” On Spec, Winter.
Ken Liu, “The Clockwork Soldier,” Clarkesworld, January.
______, “The Gods Will Not Be Chained,” The End Is Nigh.
______, “The Gods Will Not Be Slain,” The End Is Now.
______, “Home Floresiensis,” Solaris Rising 3.
______, “In the Loop,” War Stories.
______, “Lecture 14: Concerning the Event-Cloaking Device and Practical Applications Thereof,” Cosmos, April.
______, “None Owns the Air,” Lightspeed, February.
______, “Presence,” Uncanny Magazine.
______, “Reborn,” Tor.com, January 29.
______, “Saboteur,” Analog, December.
______, “What I Assume You Shall Assume,” Dead Man’s Hand.
Karin Lowachee, “Enemy States,” War Stories.
Karen Lord, “Hiraeth: A Tragedy in Four Acts,” Reach for Infinity.
Scott Lynch, “A Year and a Day in Old Theradane,” Rogues.
Ian R. MacLeod, “The Traveller and the Book,” Subterranean, Spring.
______, and Martin Sketchley, “The Howl,” Solaris Rising 3.
Ken Macleod, “The Entire Immense Superstructure: An Installation,” Reach for Infinity.
Bruce McAllister, “La Signora,” Tor.com, August 23.
Jack McDevitt, “Enjoy the Moment,” The End Is Nigh.
Sandra McDonald, “End of the World Community College,” F&SF, July/August.
______, “Selfie,” Lightspeed, May.
______, “Story of Our Lives,” Asimov’s, July.
Alex Dally McFarlane, “Popular Images from the First Manned Mission to Enceladus,” Solaris Rising 3.
Seanan McGuire, “Midway Relics and Dying Breeds,” Tor.com, September 24.
Ian McHugh, “The Extracted Journal Notes for an Ethnography of Bnebene Nomad Culture,” Asimov’s, January.
Wil McIntosh, “Scout,” Asimov’s, April/May.
Daniel Marcus, “Albion Upon the Rock,” F&SF, March/April.
George R. R. Martin, “The Rogue Prince,” Rogues.
Sam J. Miller, “Songs Like Freight Trains,” Interzone 254.
Kris Millerine, “A Word Shaped Like Bone,” Lightspeed, June.
Judith Moffett, “Space Ballet,” Tor.com, February 4.
Dustin Monk, “The Street of the Green Elephant,” Shimmer 18.
Sunny Moraine, “Cold as the Moon,” Strange Horizons, 8/18.
______, “So Sharp That Blood Must Flow,” Lightspeed, February.
______, “To Increase His Wondrous Greatness,” Apex Magazine, March.
______, “What Glistens Back,” Lightspeed, November.
Linda Nagata, “Attitude,” Reach for Infinity.
______, “Codename Delphi,” Lightspeed, April.
______, “Light and Shadow,” War Stories.
David Erik Nelson, “There Was No Sound of Thunder,” Asimov’s, June.
______, “The Traveling Salesman Solution,” F&SF, July/August.
Mari Ness, “Memories and Wires,” Upgraded.
Alec Nevala-Lee, “Cryptids,” Analog, May.
Garth Nix, “A Cargo of Ivories,” Rogues.
______, “Home Is the Hunter,” Fearsome Magics.
Larry Niven, “The Far End,” Multiverse.
Val Nolan, “Diving into the Wreck,” Interzone 252.
Jay O’Connell, “Of All Possible Worlds,” Asimov’s, August.
______, “Other People’s Things,” F&SF, September/October.
An Owomoyele, “And Wash Out the Tides of War,” Clarkesworld, February.
______, “Undermarket Data,” Lightspeed, August.
Suzanne Palmer, “Fly Away Home,” Interzone 251.
______, “Shatterdown,” Asimov’s, June.
Susan Palwick, “Windows,” Asimov’s, September.
K. J. Parker, “Heaven Thunders the Truth,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies 157.
______, “I Met a Man Who Wasn’t There,” Subterranean, Winter.
______, “Safe House,” Fearsome Magics.
______, “The Things We Do For Love,” Subterranean, Summer.
Richard Parks, “The Manor of Lost Time,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies,
______, “The Sorrow of Rain,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies 157.
Tony Pi, “The Sweeter Art,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies 155.
Sarah Pinsker, “A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide,” F&SF, March/April.
______, “How a Map Works,” Unlikely Stories, June.
______, “The Low Hum of Her,” Asimov’s, August.
______, “The Sewell Home for the Temporally Displaced,” Lightspeed, June.
______, “The Transdimensional Horsemaster Rabbis of Mpumalanga Province,” Asimov’s, February.
Gareth L. Powell, “This Is How You Die,” Interzone 251.
William Preston, “Each in His Prison, Thinking of the Key,” Asimov’s, April/May.
Cherie Priest, “Heavy Metal,” Rogues.
Tom Purdom, “Bogdavi’s Dream,” Asimov’s, September.
Chen Qiufan, “Oil of Angels,” Upgraded.
Hannu Rajaniemi, “Invisible Planets,” Reach for Infinity.
Cat Rambo, “All the Pretty Little Mermaids,” Asimov’s, March.
______, “Tortoiseshell Cats Are Not Refundable,” Clarkesworld, February.
Dinesh Rao, “The Aerophone,” F&SF, July/August.
Robert Reed, “Aether,” Paradox.
______, “The Cryptic Age,” Asimov’s, December.
______, “Every Hill Ends With Sky,” Carbide-Tipped Pens.
______, “GW in the Afterlife,” Postscripts 32/33.
______, “Pernicious Romance,” Clarkesworld, November.
______, “The Principles,” Asimov’s, April/May.
______, “The Sarcophagus,” Upgraded.
______, “Will He?,” F&SF, September/October.
______, “wHole,” Clarkesworld, June.
Alastair Reynolds, “The Last Log of the Lachrimosa,” Subterranean, Summer.
______, “Wrecking Party,” Dead Man’s Hand.
Mike Resnick, “Bad News from the Vatican,” Book of Silverberg.
M. Rickert, “The Mothers of Voorhisville,” Tor.com, April 30.
Mecurio D. Rivera, “Atonement, Under the Blue-White Sun,” Paradox.
Adam Roberts, “Trademark Bugs: A Legal History,” Reach for Infinity.
Justina Robson, “On Skybolt Mountain,” Fearsome Magics.
Margaret Ronald, “The Innocence of a Place,” Strange Horizons, 1/13.
Benjamin Rosenbaum, “Fift and Shira,” Solaris Rising 3.
Patrick Rothfuss, “The Lightning Tree,” Rogues.
Christopher Rowe, “The Dun Letter,” Fearsome Magics.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch, “Playing with Reality,” Asimov’s, October/November.
______, “Snapshots,” Analog, May.
______, “Voyeuristic Tendencies,” Book of Silverberg.
Ian Sales, “Far Voyager,” Postscripts 32/33.
Jason Sanford, “What Is Sand But Earth Purified?,” Asimov’s, October/November.
Steven Saylor, “Ill Seen in Tyre,” Rogues.
John Scalzi, “Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden’s Disease,” Tor.com, May 18.
Veronica Schanoes, “Among the Thorns,” Tor.com, May 7.
Karl Schroeder, “Degrees of Freedom,” Hieroglyph.
______, “Khledyu,” Reach for Infinity.
Gord Sellar, “Stars Fell on Alabama,” Asimov’s, October/November.
Lewis Shiner, “The Black Sun,” Subterranean, Summer.
Robert Silverberg, “Christmas in Gondwanaland,” Multiverse.
Vandana Singh, “Wake-Rider,” Lightspeed.
Emily C. Skaftun, “Diary of a Pod Person,” Asimov’s, October/November.
Doug C. Souza, “Mountain Screamers,” Asimov’s, August.
Benjanun Sriduangkaew, “Autodidact,” Clarkesworld, April.
______, “Synedoche Oracles,” Upgraded.
Allen M. Steele, “The Legion of Tomorrow,” Asimov’s, July.
Bruce Sterling, “Pilgrims of the Round World,” Subterranean, Winter.
______, “Tall Tower,” Hieroglyph.
______, “The Various Mansions of the Universe,” Twelve Tomorrows.
Andy Stewart, “The New Cambrian,” F&SF, January/February.
S. M. Stirling, “A Slip in Time,” Multiverse.
Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, “The Damaged,” Interzone 250.
Tim Sullivan, “Anomaly Station,” Asimov’s, December.
______, “The Memory Cage,” F&SF, May/June.
______, “Yeshua’s Dog,” F&SF, November/December.
Tricia Sullivan, “The Ambulance Chaser,” Paradox.
Michael Swanwick, “Of Finest Scarlet Was Her Gown,” Asimov’s, April/May.
______, “Tawny Petticoats,” Rogues.
______, “3 A.M. in the Mesozoic Bar,” Postscripts 32/33.
Rachel Swirsky, “Endless,” Solaris Rising 3.
Anna Tambour, “The Walking-Stick Forest,” Tor.com, May 21.
David Tellerman, “Bad Time To Be in the Wrong Place,” Interzone 250.
Adrian Tchaikovsky, “Lost to Their Own Devices,” Paradox.
Natalia Theodoridou, “The Eleven Holy Numbers of the Mechanical Soul,” Clarkesworld, February.
Karin Tidbeck, “Migration,” Fearsome Magics.
Lavie Tidhar, “The Dead Leaves,” Black God’s Kiss.
______, “Die,” Dangerous Games.
______, “Kur-a-lin,” Black God’s Kiss.
______, “Murder in the Cathedral,” Asimov’s, June.
______, “Selfies,” Tor.com, September 17.
______, “The Time-Slip Detective,” Tel Aviv Noir.
Jeremiah Tolbert, “In the Dying Light, We Saw a Shape,” Lightspeed, February.
E. Catherine Tobler, “The Cumulative Effects of Light Over Time,” Upgraded.
Joseph Tomaras, “Bonfires in Anacostia,” Clarkesworld, August.
Ian Tregillis, “The Testimony of Samuel Frobisher…”, F&SF, July/August.
Jean-Louis Trudel, “The Snows of Yesteryear,” Carbide-Tipped Pens.
Harry Turtledove, “The Eighth Grade History Class Visits the Hebrew Home for the Aging,” Tor.com, January 8.
______, “The Man Who Came Late,” Multiverse.
Lisa Tuttle, “The Curious Case of the Dead Wives,” Rogues.
Genevieve Valentine, “Dream Houses,” WSFA Press.
______, “Small Medicine,” Upgraded.
Greg Van Eekhout, “The Authenticator,” Flytrap, February.
James Van Pelt, “My Father and the Martian Moon Maids,” Interzone 253.
______, “This Gray Rock, Standing Tall,” Unlikely Stories, June.
______, “The Turkey Raptor,” Asimov’s, June.
Carrie Vaughn, “Harry and Marlow and the Intrigue at the Aetherian Exhibition,” Lightspeed, February.
______, “Harry and Marlow versus the Haunted Locomotive of the Rockies,” Lightspeed, July.
______, “Roaring Twenties,” Rogues.
______, “Salvage,” Lightspeed, June.
Elizabeth Vonarberg, “Chambered Nautilus,” Strange Horizons, 6/30.
Juliette Wade, “Mind Locker,” Analog, July/August.
______, “Not Easily Thrown Away,” Clarkesworld, March.
Kali Wallace, “Water in Springtime,” Clarkesworld, April.
Jo Walton, “Sleeper,” Tor.com August 12.
Peter Watts, “Collateral,” Upgraded.
______, “Hotshot,” Reach for Infinity.
Gerry Webb, “In the Beginning,” Paradox.
Tracie Welsor, “A Doll Is Not a Dumpling,” Interzone 251.
Ted White, “The Uncertain Past,” F&SF, March/April.
Rick Wilber, “Scouting Report,” Asimov’s, September.
Ysabeau S. Wilce, “Lovelocks,” Prophecies, Libels, and Dreams.
______, “Scaring the Shavetail,” Prophecies, Libels, and Dreams.
Fran Wilde, “Like a Wasp to the Tongue,” Asimov’s, April/May.
Genevieve Williams, “The Redemption of Kip Banjeree,” Asimov’s, March.
Sean Williams, “The Cuckoo,” Clarkesworld, April.
Tad Williams, “Strong Medicine,” Dead Man’s Hand.
______, “Three Lilies and Three Leopards…,” Multiverse.
Walter Jon Williams, “Diamonds From Tequila,” Rogues.
______, “The Golden Age,” Dead Man’s Hand.
Neil Williamson, “The Posset Pot,” Interzone 252.
Connie Willis, “Now Showing,” Rogues.
______, “Silverberg, Satan, and Me…”, Book of Silverberg.
Daniel H. Wilson, “The Blue Afternoon That Lasted Forever,” Carbide-Tipped Pens.
Kai Ashante Wilson, “The Devil in America,” Tor.com, April 2.
Alyssa Wong, “Santos de Sampaguias,” Strange Horizons, 10/5–10/13.
Peter Wood, “Drink in a Small Town,” Asimov’s, March.
John C. Wright, “Idle Thoughts,” Abyss & Apex, 4th Quarter.
J. V. Yang, “Patterns of Murmuration, in Billions of Data Points,” Clarkesworld, September.
Caroline M. Yoachim, “Paperclips and Memories and Things That Won’t Be Missed,” Apex Magazine, May.
Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, “Hot and Cold,” Analog, July/August.
K. J. Zimring, “The Talking Cure,” Asimov’s, April/May.
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TITLE PAGE
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
SUMMATION: 2014
THE FIFTH DRAGON • Ian McDonald
THE RIDER • Jérôme Cigut
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 REGULAR • Ken Liu
THE WOMAN FROM THE OCEAN • Karl Bunker
SHOOTING THE APOCALYPSE • Paolo Bacigalupi
WEATHER • Susan Palwick
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
THE COLONEL • Peter Watts
ENTANGLEMENT • Vandana Singh
WHITE CURTAIN • Pavel Amnuel, translated by Anatoly Belilovsky
SLIPPING • Lauren Beukes
PASSAGE OF EARTH • Michael Swanwick
AMICAE AETERNUM • Ellen Klages
IN BABELSBERG • Alastair Reynolds
SADNESS • Timons Esaias
WEST TO EAST • Jay Lake
GRAND JETÉ (THE GREAT LEAP) • Rachel Swirsky
COVENANT • Elizabeth Bear
JUBILEE • Karl Schroeder
LOS PIRATAS DEL MAR DE PLASTICO (PIRATES OF THE PLASTIC OCEAN) • Paul Graham Raven
RED LIGHTS, AND RAIN • Gareth L. Powell
COMA KINGS • Jessica Barber
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