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• A Love Supreme • (2012) • short story by Kathleen Ann Goonan
• Antarctica Starts Here • (2012) • short story by Paul J. McAuley [as by Paul McAuley]
• Application • (2012) • short story by Lewis Shiner
• Branches on My Back, Sparrows in My Ear • (2012) • short story by Nikki J. North
• Bricks, Sticks, Straw • (2012) • short story by Gwyneth Jones
• Close Encounters • (2012) • novelette by Andy Duncan
• Dormanna • (2012) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• Electrica • (2012) • novelette by Sean McMullen
• Glass Future • (2012) • short story by Deborah Walker
• Holmes Sherlock: A Hwarhath Mystery • [Hwarhath] • (2012) • novelette by Eleanor Arnason
• Houseflies • (2012) • short story by Joe Pitkin
• If Only ... • (2012) • short story by Tony Ballantyne
• In Plain Sight • (2012) • short story by Pat Cadigan
• Introduction (Year's Best SF 18) • (2013) • essay by David G. Hartwell
• Liberty's Daughter • [Seastead] • (2012) • novelette by Naomi Kritzer
• Nahiku West • [Zeke Choy] • (2012) • novelette by Linda Nagata
• Old Paint • (2012) • novelette by Robin Hobb [as by Megan Lindholm]
• Perfect Day • (2012) • short story by C. S. Friedman
• Prayer • (2012) • short story by Robert Reed
• Swift as a Dream and Fleeting as a Sigh • (2012) • short story by John Barnes
• The Battle of Candle Arc • [The Machineries of Empire] • (2012) • novelette by Yoon Ha Lee
• The Ghosts of Christmas • (2012) • novelette by Paul Cornell
• The North Revena Ladies Literary Society • (2012) • short story by Catherine H. Shaffer
• The Peak of Eternal Light • (2012) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
• The Sigma Structure Symphony • [SETI Library] • (2012) • novelette by Gregory Benford
• The Woman Who Shook the World Tree • (2013) • short story by Michael Swanwick (variant of The Woman Who Shook the World-Tree 2012)
• Two Sisters in Exile • [Universe of Xuya] • (2012) • short story by Aliette de Bodard
• Waves • (2013) • novelette by Ken Liu (variant of The Waves 2012)
• Weep for Day • (2012) • novelette by Indrapramit Das