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• 1 • Editorial: Women Destroy Science Fiction! • essay by Gabrielle de Cuir and Robyn Lupo and Rachel Swirsky and Wendy N. Wagner and Christie Yant
• 6 • Each to Each • novelette by Seanan McGuire
• 6 •  Each to Each • interior artwork by Lisa Grabenstetter
• 23 • A Word Shaped Like Bones • short story by Kris Millering
• 23 •  A Word Shaped Like Bones • interior artwork by Lisa Grabenstetter
• 33 • Cuts Both Ways • novelette by Heather Clitheroe
• 33 •  Cuts Both Ways • interior artwork by Elizabeth Leggett
• 50 • Walking Awake • short story by N. K. Jemisin
• 50 •  Walking Awake • interior artwork by Hillary Pearlman
• 64 • The Case of the Passionless Bees • short story by Rhonda Eikamp
• 64 •  The Case of the Passionless Bees • interior artwork by Christine Mitzuk
• 76 • In the Image of Man • short story by Gabriella Stalker
• 92 • The Unfathomable Sisterhood of Ick • short story by Charlie Jane Anders
• 107 • Dim Sun • short story by Maria Dahvana Headley
• 119 • The Lonely Sea in the Sky • short story by Amal El-Mohtar
• 130 • A Burglary, Addressed by a Young Lady • short story by Elizabeth Porter Birdsall
• 139 • Canth • short story by K. C. Norton
• 151 • Like Daughter • (2000) • short story by Tananarive Due
• 151 •  Like Daughter • interior artwork by Elizabeth Leggett
• 162 • The Great Loneliness • (2012) • short story by Maria Romasco-Moore [as by Maria Romasco Moore]
• 174 • Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death • (1973) • short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
• 174 •  Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death • interior artwork by Lisa Grabenstetter
• 190 • Knapsack Poems • [Goxhat] • (2002) • short story by Eleanor Arnason
• 206 • The Cost to Be Wise • (1996) • novelette by Maureen F. McHugh
• 249 • Salvage • short story by Carrie Vaughn
• 249 •  Salvage • interior artwork by Elizabeth Leggett
• 255 • A Guide to Grief • short story by Emily Fox
• 257 • See DANGEROUS EARTH-POSSIBLES! • short story by Tina Connolly
• 260 • A Debt Repaid • short story by Marina J. Lostetter
• 263 • The Sewell Home for the Temporally Displaced • short story by Sarah Pinsker
• 266 • #TrainFightTuesday • short story by Vanessa Torline
• 272 • The Hymn of Ordeal, No. 23 • short story by Rhiannon Rasmussen-Silverstein [as by Rhiannon Rasmussen]
• 276 • Emoticon • short story by Anaid Pérez Mendoza [as by Anaid Perez]
• 277 • The Mouths • short story by Ellen Denham
• 280 • M1A • short story by Kim Winternheimer
• 283 • Standard Deviant • short story by Holly Schofield
• 287 • Getting on in Years • short story by Cathy Humble
• 292 • Ro-Sham-Bot • short story by Effie Seiberg
• 294 • Everything That Has Already Been Said • short story by Samantha Murray
• 297 • The Lies We Tell Our Children • short story by Katherine Crighton
• 300 • Artemis Awakening (excerpt) • [Artemis (Jane Lindskold)] • short fiction by Jane Lindskold
• 311 • Author Spotlight: Seanan McGuire • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Seanan McGuire • interview by Sandra M. Odell [as by Sandra Odell]
• 313 • Author Spotlight: Kris Millering • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Kris Millering • interview by Lee Hallison
• 315 • Author Spotlight: Heather Clitheroe • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Heather Clitheroe • interview by Lee Hallison
• 319 • Author Spotlight: N. K. Jemisin • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of N. K. Jemisin • interview by Laurel Amberdine
• 322 • Author Spotlight: Rhonda Eikamp • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Rhonda Eikamp • interview by Sandra M. Odell [as by Sandra Odell]
• 325 • Author Spotlight: Gabriella Stalker • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Gabriella Stalker • interview by Lee Hallison
• 327 • Author Spotlight: Charlie Jane Anders • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Charlie Jane Anders • interview by Sandra M. Odell [as by Sandra Odell]
• 329 • Author Spotlight: Maria Dahvana Headley (Lightspeed, June 2014) • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Maria Dahvana Headley • interview by Jude Griffin
• 333 • Author Spotlight: Amal El-Mohtar • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Amal El-Mohtar • interview by Jude Griffin
• 336 • Author Spotlight: Elizabeth Porter Birdsall • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Elizabeth Porter Birdsall • interview by Laurel Amberdine
• 339 • Author Spotlight: K. C. Norton • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of K. C. Norton • interview by Laurel Amberdine
• 341 • Author Spotlight: Tananarive Due (Lightspeed, June 2014) • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Tananarive Due • interview by Jude Griffin
• 343 • Author Spotlight: Maria Romasco Moore • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Maria Romasco-Moore • interview by Jude Griffin
• 345 • Author Spotlight: Eleanor Arnason (Lightspeed, June 2014) • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Eleanor Arnason • interview by Jude Griffin
• 347 • Author Spotlight: Maureen McHugh • [Author Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Maureen F. McHugh • interview by Jude Griffin
• 349 • Artists Spotlight • essay by Galen Dara
• 350 •  Artist Gallery (Lightspeed, June 2014) • interior artwork by Lisa Grabenstetter [as by Li Grabenstetter]
• 350 • Artists Spotlight: Li Grabenstetter • [Artist Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Lisa Grabenstetter • interview by Galen Dara
• 353 •  Artist Gallery (Lightspeed, June 2014) • interior artwork by Elizabeth Leggett
• 353 • Artists Spotlight: Elizabeth Leggett • [Artist Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Elizabeth Leggett • interview by Galen Dara
• 356 •  Artist Gallery (Lightspeed, June 2014) • interior artwork by Christine Mitzuk
• 356 • Artists Spotlight: Christine Mitzuk • [Artist Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Christine Mitzuk • interview by Galen Dara
• 359 •  Artist Gallery (Lightspeed, June 2014) • interior artwork by Hillary Pearlman
• 359 • Artists Spotlight: Hillary Pearlman • [Artist Spotlight (Lightspeed)] • interview of Hillary Pearlman • interview by Galen Dara
• 362 • Illusion, Expectation, and World Domination Through Bake Sales • essay by Pat Murphy
• 368 • Women Remember: A Roundtable Interview • interview of Pat Cadigan and Ellen Datlow and Nancy Kress and Ursula K. Le Guin • interview by Mary Robinette Kowal
• 377 • Feature Interview: Kelly Sue DeConnick • interview of Kelly Sue DeConnick • interview by Jennifer Willis
• 386 • "The Status Quo Cannot Hold": A Few Words from Women Who Wrote/Are Writing the Goddamn Book on Destroying Science Fiction • essay by Tracie Welser
• 391 • How to Engineer a Self-Rescuing Princess • essay by Stina Leicht
• 395 • Screaming Together: Making Women's Voices Heard • essay by Nisi Shawl
• 401 • We Are the Fifty Percent • essay by Rachel Swirsky
• 403 • Science Fiction: You're Doin' It Wrong • essay by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
• 405 • Join Us in the Future • essay by Marissa Lingen
• 407 • Are We There Yet? • essay by Sheila Finch
• 409 • Not a Spaceship, Robot, or Zombie in Sight • essay by Anne Charnock
• 411 • Writing Among the Beginning of Women • essay by Amy Sterling Casil
• 413 • Toward a Better Future • essay by Nancy Jane Moore
• 415 • We Are the Army of Women Destroying SF • essay by Sandra Wickham
• 417 • Read SF and You've Got a Posse • essay by Gail Marsella
• 419 • Stomp All Over That • essay by Octavia Cade [as by O. J. Cade]
• 421 • For the Trailblazers • essay by Kristi Charish
• 423 • Women Are the Future of Science Fiction • essay by Juliette Wade
• 425 • We Have Always Fought: Challenging the Women, Cattle and Slaves Narrative • (2013) • essay by Kameron Hurley
• 433 • Writing Stories, Wrinkling Time • essay by Kat Howard
• 435 • Where Are My SF Books? • essay by DeAnna Knippling
• 437 • Reading the Library Alphabetically • essay by Liz Argall
• 440 • Stepping Through a Portal • essay by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
• 442 • The Wendybird • essay by Stina Leicht
• 444 • I Wanted to Be the First Woman on the Moon • essay by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
• 446 • Never Think of Yourself as Less • essay by Helena Bell
• 448 • An ABC of Kickass, or A Partial Exorcism of My TBR/TBRA* Pile • essay by Jude Griffin
• 451 • Stocking Stuffers • essay by Anaea Lay
• 453 • Breaching the Gap • essay by Brooke Bolander
• 455 • Women Who Are More Than Strong • essay by Georgina Kamsika
• 456 • A Science-Fictional Woman • essay by Cheryl Morgan
• 458 • Your Future Is Out of Date • essay by Pat Murphy
• 461 • Stray Outside the Lines • essay by E. Catherine Tobler
• 463 • My Love Can Destroy • essay by Seanan McGuire
• 480 • They Tell Me There Will Be No Pain • short story by Alex Acks [as by Rachael Acks]