Introduction / Rich Horton -- Extracurricular activities / Yoon Ha Lee -- Emergency protocol / Lettie Prell -- Winter timeshare / Ray Naylor -- Hermit of Houston / Samuel R. Delaney -- UGO / Giovanni De Feo -- Fandom for robots / Vina Jie-Min Prasad -- Shoggoths in traffic / Tobias S. Buckell -- Persephone of the crows / Karen Joy Fowler -- Whatever knight comes / Ryan Row -- Don't press charges and I won't sue /rCharlie Jane Anders -- Startlight express / Michael Swanwick -- Montreal, 2014 / Madeline Ray -- The significance of significance / Robert Reed -- The tale of the Alcubierre Horse / Kathleen Ann Goonan -- Marley and Marley / J.R. Dawson -- Hexagrammaton / Hanus Seiner (translated by Julie Novakova -- The sacrifice of the hanged monkey / Minsoo Kang -- Zeros / Peter Watts -- Cupido /r Rich Larson -- Rings / Nina Kiriki Hoffman -- This is for you / Bruce McAllister -- One hour, every seven years Alice Sola Kim -- Time travel is only for the poor / SL Huang -- Sidewalks / Maureen McHugh -- The fisherman and the pig / Kameron Hurley -- Utopia LOL? / Jamie Wahls -- An account of the land of witches / Sofia Samatar -- The secret life of bots / Suzanne Palmer-- The Martian obelisk / Linda Nagata -- Love engine optimization / Matthew Kressel -- Though she be but little / C.S.E. Cooney -- Red bark and ambergris / Kate Marshall -- Soulmates, Inc. / Will McIntosh -- And then there were (N-ONE) / Sarah Pinker -- Publication history.