Current issue: The moon is not a battlefield / Indrapramit Das -- My English name / R. S. Benedict -- An evening with Severyn Grimes / Rich Larson -- Vanguard 2.0 / Carter Scholz -- Starlight Express / Michael Swanwick -- The Martian obelisk / Linda Nagata -- We who live in the heart / Kelly Robson -- Winter timeshare / Ray Nayler -- Dear Sarah / Nancy Kress -- Night passage / Alastair Reynolds -- The dragon that flew out of the sun / Aliette de Bodard -- Waiting out the end of the world in Patty's Place Cafe / Naomi Kritzer -- The hunger after you're fed / James S. A. Corey -- Assassins / Jack Skillingstead and Burt Courtier -- The Martian job / Jaine Fenn -- The road to the sea / Lavie Tidhar -- Uncanny valley / Greg Egan -- The wordless / Indrapramit Das -- Pan-humanism : hope and pragmatics / Jessica Barber and Sara Saab -- Zigeuner / Harry Turtledove -- The proving ground / Alec Nevala-Lee -- Zen and the art of starship maintenance / Tobias S. Buckell -- The influence machine / Sean McMullen -- Canoe / Nancy Kress -- The history of the invasion told in five dogs / Kelly Jennings -- Prime meridian / Silvia Moreno-Garcia -- Triceratops / Ian McHugh -- Mines / Eleanor Arnason -- There used to be olive trees / Rich Larson -- Whending my way back home / Bill Johnson -- Death on Mars / Madeline Ashby -- Elephant on table / Bruce Sterling -- Number thirty-nine skink / Suzanne Palmer -- A series of steaks / Vina Jie-Min Prasad -- The last boat-builder in Ballyvoloon / Finbarr O'Reilly -- The residue of fire / Robert Reed -- Sidewalks / Maureen F. McHugh -- Nexus / Michael F. Flynn -- Honorable mentions 2017.