Foreword / by Chris Claremont
Professor Incognito apologizes: an itemized list / Austin Grossman
Father of the groom / Harry Turtledove
Laughter at the academy / Seanan McGuire
Letter to the editor / David D. Levine
Instead of a loving heart / Jeremiah Tolbert
The executor / Daniel H. Wilson
The angel of death has a business plan / Heather Lindsley
Homo perfectus / David Farland
Ancient equations / L.A. Banks
Rural singularity / Alan Dean Foster
Captain Justice saves the day / Genevieve Valentine
The mad scientist's daughter / Theodora Goss
The space between / Diana Gabaldon
Harry and Marlowe meet the founder of the Aetherian Revolution / Carrie Vaughn
Blood & stardust / Laird Barron
A more perfect union / L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
We interrupt this broadcast / Mary Robinette Kowal
The last dignity of man / Marjorie M. Liu
The Pittsburgh technology / Jeffrey Ford
Mofongo knows / Grady Hendrix
The food taster's boy / Ben H. Winters.