Turing's apple / Stephen Baxter -- From Babel's fall'n glory we fled / Michael Swanwick -- Gambler / Paolo Bacigalupi -- Boojum / Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette -- Six directions of space / Alastair Reynolds -- N-words / Ted Kosmatka -- An eligible boy / Ian McDonald -- Shining armour / Dominic Green -- Hero / Karl Schroeder -- Evil robot monkey / Mary Robinette Kowal -- Five thrillers / Robert Reed -- Sky that wraps the world round, past the blue and into the black / Jay Lake -- Incomers / Paul McAuley -- Crystal nights / Greg Egan -- Egg man / Mary Rosenblum -- His master's voice / Hannu Rajamiemi -- Political prisoner / Charles Coleman Finlay -- Balancing accounts / James L. Cambias -- Special economics / Maureen McHugh -- Days of wonder / Geoff Ryman -- City of the dead / Paul McAuley -- Voyage out / Gywneth Jones -- Illustrated biography of Lord Grimm / Daryl Gregory -- G-Men / Kristine Kathryn Rusch -- Erdmann nexus / Nancy Kress -- Old friends / Garth Nix -- Ray gun: a love story / James Alan Gardner -- Lester Young and the Jupiter Moon's blues / Gord Sellar -- Butterfly, falling at dawn / Aliette de Bodard -- Tear / Ian McDonald.