Life sentence / Matthew Baker -- Another avatar / S. P. Somtow -- Between the dark and the dark / Deji Bryce Olukotun -- Thirty-three wicked daughters / Kelly Barnhill -- Bullet point / Elizabeth Bear -- The eight people who murdered me (excerpt from Lucy Westenra's diary) / Gwendolyn Kiste -- The archronology of love / Caroline M. Yoachim -- Shape-ups at Delilah's / Rion Amilcar Scott -- The galactic tourist industrial complex / Tobias S. Buckell -- The bookstore at the end of America / Charlie Jane Anders -- Ten excerpts from an annotated bibliography on the cannibal women of Ratnabar Island / Nibedita Sen -- The freedom of the shifting sea / Jaymee Goh -- Sacrid's pod / Adam-Troy Castro -- Canst thou draw out the Leviathan / Christopher Caldwell -- Thoughts and prayers / Ken Liu -- The time invariance of snow / E. Lily Yu -- The robots of Eden / Anil Menon -- Erase, erase, erase / Elizabeth Bear -- A brief lesson in Native American astronomy / Rebecca Roanhorse -- Up from slavery / Victor LaValle.