Introduction: a harmony of thoughts / Catherine Asaro -- The paper menagerie / Ken Liu -- The ice owl / Carolyn Ives Gilman -- Ado / Connie Willis -- The migratory pattern of dancers / Katherine Sparrow -- Peach-creamed honey, poetry / Amal El-Mohtar -- The axiom of choice / David W. Goldman -- Club story, essay / John Clute -- What we found / Geoff Ryman -- excerpt from Among others / Jo Walton -- Movement / Nancy Fulda -- Sauerkraut station / Ferrett Steinmetz -- The cartographer wasps and the anarchest bees / E. Lily Yu -- Ray of light / Brad R. Torgersen -- excerpt from the Freedom maze / Delia Sherman -- The sea king's second bride, poetry / C. S. E. Cooney -- The man who bridged the mist / Kij Johnson.