Introduction / Jonathan Strahan -- Elegy for a young elk / Hannu Rajaniemi -- The truth is a cave in the Black Mountain / Neil Gaiman -- Seven sexy cowboy robots / Sandra McDonald -- The spy who never grew up / Sarah Rees Brennan -- The Aarne-Thompson Classification Revue / Holly Black -- Under the moons of Venus / Damien Broderick -- The fool jobs / Joe Abercrombie -- Alone / Robert Reed -- Names for water / Kij Johnson -- Fair ladies / Theodora Goss -- Plus or minus / James Patrick Kelly -- The man with the knives / Ellen Kushner -- The Jammie Dodgers and the adventure of the Leicester Square screening / Cory Doctorow -- The maiden flight of McCauley's Bellerophon / Elizabeth Hand -- The miracle Aquilina / Margo Lanagan -- The taste of night / Pat Cadigan -- The exterminator's want-ad / Bruce Sterling --Map of seventeen / Christopher Barzak -- The naturalist / Maureen McHugh -- Sins of the father / Sara Genge -- The sultan of the clouds / Geoffrey A. Landis -- Iteration / John Kessel -- The care and feeding of your baby killer unicorn / Diana Peterfreund -- The night train / Lavie Tidhar -- Still life (a sexagesimal fairy tale) / Ian Tregillis -- Amor vincit omnia / K.J. Parker -- The things / Peter Watts -- The Zeppelin Conductors' Society annual gentlemen's ball / Genevieve Valentine -- The lady who plucked red flowers beneath the queen's window / Rachel Swirsky.