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• Preface (Up and Coming: Stories by the 2016 Campbell-Eligible Authors) • essay by S. L. Huang and Kurt Hunt
• La Héron • (2015) • short story by Charlotte Ashley
• Sigrid Under the Mountain • (2015) • short story by Charlotte Ashley
• Belt Three (excerpt) • short fiction by John Ayliff
• To Sing of Chaos and Eternal Night • (2015) • novelette by Lucas Bale
• Pirate Songs • (2015) • novelette by Nicolette Barischoff
• Follow Me Down • (2015) • novelette by Nicolette Barischoff
• In the Woods Behind My House • (2016) • short story by Nicolette Barischoff
• A' Is for Alacrity, Astronauts and Grief • short story by Sofie Bird (variant of 'A' Is for Alacrity, Astronauts, and Grief 2015)
• Clay Soldiers • (2015) • short story by Derrick Boden
• The Last Mardi Gras • (2015) • short story by Derrick Boden
• The Traveler • (2015) • short story by Stefan Bolz
• The Water Finder's Shadow • (2015) • novelette by David Bruns
• I, Caroline • (2014) • short story by David Bruns
• It Was Never the Fire • (2014) • short story by Martin Cahill
• Vanilla • (2014) • short story by Martin Cahill
• Dining Out • (2015) • short story by Aaron Canton
• A Most Unusual Patriot • (2015) • short story by Aaron Canton
• Room 42 • (2015) • short story by D. K. Cassidy
• Between Screens • (2015) • short story by Zach Chapman
• Zugzwang • (2014) • short story by Curtis C. Chen
• Making Waves • (2014) • short story by Curtis C. Chen
• Laddie Come Home • juvenile • (2015) • short story by Curtis C. Chen
• Agents of Change • short story by Zig Zag Claybourne [as by Z. Z. Claybourne]
• The Ties That Bind, the Chains That Break • (2015) • short story by Liz Colter
• Echoes • (2015) • short story by Liz Colter
• The Clouds in Her Eyes • (2014) • short story by Liz Colter
• Last Transaction • (2015) • short story by Nik Constantine
• The God Whisperer • (2015) • short story by Daniel J. Davis
• Strange Attractors • (2014) • short story by S. B. Divya
• The Egg • (2015) • short story by S. B. Divya
• Ships in the Night • (2015) • short story by S. B. Divya
• Jane • (2014) • short story by Margaret Dunlap
• Broken Glass • (2015) • short story by Margaret Dunlap
• The Market Arcanum • [Bookburners Season 1 • 5] • (2015) • short fiction by Margaret Dunlap
• Linesman (excerpt) • short fiction by Karen Dunstall and Sherylyn Dunstall [as by S. K. Dunstall]
• First Do No Harm • (2015) • novelette by Jonathan Edelstein
• A Long Horizon • (2015) • short story by Harlow C. Fallon
• The Lady of the House of Mirrors • (2015) • short story by Rafaela Ferraz [as by Rafaela F. Ferraz]
• She Gave Her Heart, He Took Her Marrow • (2015) • short story by Sam Fleming
• Seven Things Cadet Blanchard Learned from the Trade Summit Incident • (2014) • short story by Annalee Flower Horne
• Game Not Over • (2015) • short story by Ron S. Friedman
• LUCA • (2015) • short story by Ron S. Friedman
• The Harsh Light of Morning • (2015) • short story by David Jón Fuller
• Caged • (2015) • short story by David Jón Fuller
• In Open Air • (2015) • short story by David Jón Fuller
• Bargain • (2015) • short story by Sarah Gailey
• Haunted • short story by Sarah Gailey
• The Backup • (2015) • short story by Patricia Gilliam
• Liminal Grid • (2015) • short story by Jaymee Goh
• Number One Hit • (2015) • short story by Elad Haber
• Adaptation and Predation • (2015) • short story by Auston Habershaw
• A Revolutionary's Guide to Practical Conjuration • (2015) • novelette by Auston Habershaw
• Spatchcock • (2014) • novelette by Philip Brian Hall
• The Waiting Room • (2015) • short story by Philip Brian Hall
• The Man on the Church Street Omnibus • (2015) • short story by Philip Brian Hall
• The Antares Cigar Shoppe • (2015) • short story by John Gregory Hancock
• Sang Rimau and the Medicine Woman • (2015) • short story by Nin Harris
• Your Right Arm • (2015) • short story by Nin Harris
• Y Brenin • novelette by C. Allegra Hawksmoor [as by C. A. Hawksmoor]
• Murder on the Laplacian Express • (2015) • short story by C. Allegra Hawksmoor [as by C. A. Hawksmoor]
• Boomer Hunter • (2015) • short story by Sean Patrick Hazlett
• Entropic Order • (2015) • short story by Sean Patrick Hazlett
• Chandler's Hollow • (2015) • short story by Sean Patrick Hazlett
• The Monastery of the Parallels • (2015) • short story by Holly Heisey
• An Understanding • (2014) • short story by Holly Heisey
• Contents of Care Package to Etsath-tachri, Formerly Ryan Andrew Curran (Human English Translated to Sedrayin) • (2015) • short story by Holly Heisey
• Revolver • (2015) • novelette by Michael Patrick Hicks
• Preservation • [DRMR] • (2015) • short story by Michael Patrick Hicks
• Hunting Monsters • [Hunting Monsters • 1] • (2014) • short story by S. L. Huang
• By Degrees and Dilatory Time • (2015) • short story by S. L. Huang
• Zero Sum Game (excerpt) • short fiction by S. L. Huang
• Paolo, Friend Paolo • (2015) • short story by Kurt Hunt
• QSFT7mk2.7853 Has a Name • (2015) • short story by Kurt Hunt
• Tigerskin • (2015) • short story by Kurt Hunt
• Vacui Magia • (2015) • short story by L. S. Johnson
• Little Men with Knives • (2015) • novelette by L. S. Johnson
• The Economist & the Dragon • (2014) • short story by Cameron Johnston
• Head Games • (2015) • short story by Cameron Johnston
• The Shadow Under Scotland • (2014) • short story by Cameron Johnston
• Makeisha in Time • (2014) • short story by Rachael K. Jones
• Who Binds and Looses the World with Her Hands • (2015) • short story by Rachael K. Jones
• Charlotte Incorporated • (2016) • short story by Rachael K. Jones
• Broken • (2015) • short story by Jason Kimble
• Hide Behind • (2015) • short story by Jason Kimble
• Rememorations • (2015) • short story by Paul B. Kohler
• The Soul Collector • [Borrowed Souls • 1] • (2015) • novella by Paul B. Kohler (variant of Borrowed Souls 2014)
• Unsealed • (2015) • short story by Jeanne Kramer-Smyth
• View from Above • juvenile • (2015) • short story by Jeanne Kramer-Smyth
• And Now, Fill Her In • (2015) • short story by Jamie Gilman Kress
• Unexpected Rain (excerpt) • short fiction by Jason LaPier
• Zeroboxer (excerpt) • short fiction by Fonda Lee
• Universal Print • (2015) • short story by Fonda Lee
• Ffydd (Faith) • (2014) • short story by S. Lynn
• into the waters I rode down • (2015) • short story by Jack Hollis Marr
• City of Salt • (2015) • short story by Arkady Martine
• When the Fall Is All That's Left • (2015) • short story by Arkady Martine
• Adjuva • (2015) • short story by Arkady Martine
• Blood Moon Carnival • (2015) • short story by Kim May
• The Void Around the Sword's Edge • (2015) • short story by Kim May
• Grandmother Winter • (2014) • short story by Alison McBain
• The Lost Children • (2014) • short story by Alison McBain
• The Heart of Yuki-Onna • (2015) • short story by Alison McBain
• Charaid Dreams • (2015) • short story by Rati Mehrotra
• Ghosts of Englehart • (2014) • short story by Rati Mehrotra
• Slow • (2015) • short story by Lia Swope Mitchell
• Decay • (2015) • short story by Allison Mulder
• Ossuary • (2015) • short story by Ian Muneshwar
• Strange Matter • (2015) • novelette by Brian Niemeier
• Nethereal (excerpt) • [Soul Cycle] • short fiction by Brian Niemeier
• Rain Like Diamonds • (2015) • short story by Wendy Nikel
• The Tea-Space Continuum • (2015) • short story by Wendy Nikel
• The Book of Futures • (2015) • short story by Wendy Nikel
• A Rise to the Surface • (2015) • short story by George Nikolopoulos
• Razor Bill vs Pistol Anne • (2016) • short story by George Nikolopoulos
• Of Blood and Brine • (2015) • short story by Megan E. O'Keefe
• Steal the Sky (excerpt) • short fiction by Megan E. O'Keefe
• Tear Tracks • (2015) • short story by Malka Older
• The Box Wife • (2014) • short story by Emma Osborne
• Zip • (2014) • short story by Emma Osborne
• Clean Hands, Dirty Hands • (2014) • short story by Emma Osborne
• Upgrade • (2015) • short story by Chris Ovenden
• Peace for Our Times • (2015) • short story by Chris Ovenden
• Behind Grey Eyes • (2015) • short story by Chris Ovenden
• Switch • (2015) • novelette by Steve Pantazis
• Here Be Monsters • (2014) • short story by Carrie Patel
• The Color of Regret • (2016) • short story by Carrie Patel
• The Buried Life (excerpt) • short fiction by Carrie Patel
• The Merger • (2015) • short story by Sunil Patel
• The Robot Who Couldn't Lie • (2015) • short story by Sunil Patel
• The Attic of Memories • (2015) • short story by Sunil Patel
• I am Graalnak of the Vroon Empire, Destroyer of Galaxies, Supreme Overlord of the Planet Earth. Ask Me Anything. • (2015) • short story by Laura Pearlman
• A Dozen Frogs, a Bakery, and a Thing That Didn't Happen • (2015) • short story by Laura Pearlman
• In the End, You Get Clarity • (2015) • short story by Laura Pearlman
• Hereafter • (2014) • short story by Samuel Peralta
• Humanity • (2014) • short story by Samuel Peralta
• In Loco Parentis • (2015) • short story by Andrea Phillips
• Revision (excerpt) • short fiction by Andrea Phillips
• Dragonfire Is Brighter Than the Ten Thousand Stars • (2015) • novella by Mark Robert Philps
• Judgment • (2015) • novelette by Monica Enderle Pierce
• The Keresztury TVirs • (2015) • short story by Ivan Popov
• The Punctuality Machine, or, A Steampunk Libretto • (2015) • short story by Bill Powell
• Stripped to Zero • (2015) • short story by Stephen S. Power
• Wire Paladin • (2015) • short story by Stephen S. Power
• Automatic Sky • (2014) • short story by Stephen S. Power
• The Hymn of Ordeal, No. 23 • (2014) • short story by Rhiannon Rasmussen-Silverstein [as by Rhiannon Rasmussen]
• Charge! Love Heart! • (2015) • short story by Rhiannon Rasmussen-Silverstein [as by Rhiannon Rasmussen]
• How to Survive the Apocalypse • (2015) • short story by Rhiannon Rasmussen-Silverstein [as by Rhiannon Rasmussen]
• The Kasant Objective • (2015) • short story by Chris Reher
• The Undying: Shades (excerpt) • short fiction by Ethan Reid
• Waters of Versailles (excerpt) • short fiction by Kelly Robson
• The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill • (2015) • short story by Kelly Robson
• Two-Year Man • (2015) • short story by Kelly Robson
• The Doom of Sallee • (2015) • short story by Andy Rogers
• Brothers in Arms • [Star Citizen] • (2015) • short story by Andy Rogers
• The Eleventh Hour • (2015) • short story by Lauren M. Roy
• Grand Tour • (2015) • short story by Steve Ruskin
• We Fly • (2015) • short story by K. B. Rylander
• Mr. Reilly's Tattoo • (2014) • short story by Hope Erica Schultz
• The Princess in the Basement • (2015) • short story by Hope Erica Schultz
• Re: Little Miss Apocalypse Playset • (2016) • short story by Effie Seiberg
• Rocket Surgery • (2016) • short story by Effie Seiberg
• Thundergod in Therapy • (2016) • short story by Effie Seiberg
• The Djinn Who Sought to Kill the Sun • (2014) • novelette by Tahmeed Shafiq
• Archana and Chandni • (2015) • short story by Iona Datt Sharma [as by Iona Sharma]
• Alnwick • (2015) • short story by Iona Datt Sharma [as by Iona Sharma]
• Ice in D Minor • (2015) • short story by Anthea Sharp
• The Sun Never Sets • [Victoria Eternal] • (2015) • short story by Anthea Sharp
• Fae Horse • (2014) • short story by Anthea Sharp
• Edge of the Unknown • (2015) • short story by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry
• The Diatomic Quantum Flop • (2015) • short story by Daniel Arthur Smith
• Tower • (2015) • short story by Daniel Arthur Smith
• Hugh Howey Lives (excerpt) • short fiction by Daniel Arthur Smith
• The Soulless: A History of Zombieism in Chiitai and Mihari Culture • (2015) • short story by Lesley Smith
• Götterdämmerung^?Gotterdammerung
  Goetterdaemmerung
  • (2015) • short story by William Squirrell
• Fighting in the Streets of the City of Time • (2015) • short story by William Squirrell
• I Am Problem Solving Astronaut: How to Write Hard SF • (2015) • short story by William Squirrell
• Outpatient • (2015) • short story by Dan Stout
• The Curious Case of Alpha-7 DE11 • (2015) • short story by Dan Stout
• A Revolution in Four Courses • (2015) • short story by Naru Dames Sundar
• Infinite Skeins • (2015) • short story by Naru Dames Sundar
• Broken Winged Love • short story by Naru Dames Sundar (variant of Broken-Winged Love 2015)
• Uncle Allen • (2015) • novelette by Will Swardstrom
• The Control • (2015) • novelette by Will Swardstrom
• Daega's Test • (2015) • short story by Jeremy Szal
• Last Age of Kings • (2015) • short story by Jeremy Szal
• Skingame • (2015) • short story by Jeremy Szal
• Forge and Fledge • (2014) • short story by Lauren C. Teffeau
• Jump Cut • (2015) • short story by Lauren C. Teffeau
• The Eleven Holy Numbers of the Mechanical Soul • (2014) • short story by Natalia Theodoridou
• On Post-Mortem Birds • (2015) • short story by Natalia Theodoridou
• Android Whores Can't Cry • (2015) • short story by Natalia Theodoridou
• Bonfires in Anacostia • (2014) • short story by Joseph Tomaras
• Thirty-Eight Observations on the Nature of the Self • (2014) • short story by Joseph Tomaras
• The Joy of Sects • (2015) • short story by Joseph Tomaras
• The Storymaster • (2015) • short story by Vincent Trigili
• Moon Dust • (2015) • novelette by P. K. Tyler
• Avendui 5ive • (2015) • short story by P. K. Tyler
• The Metamorphoses of Narcissus • (2015) • short story by Tamara Vardomskaya
• Acrobatic Duality • (2015) • short story by Tamara Vardomskaya
• Collar • (2014) • short story by Leo Vladimirsky
• ReMemories • (2015) • short story by Nancy S. M. Waldman
• And Always, Murder • (2015) • short story by Nancy S. M. Waldman
• Sinseerly a Friend & Yr. Obed't • (2015) • novelette by Thomas M. Waldroon
• It's OK to Say If You Went Back in Time and Killed Baby Hitler • short story by Jo L. Walton [as by Jo Lindsay Walton]
• The Book of Safkhet: Chronicler of the Journey, Mistress of the House of Books • short story by Kim Wells (variant of The Book of Safkhet, Chronicler of the Journey, Mistress of the House of Books 2015)
• King Tide • (2014) • short story by Alison Wilgus
• Noise Pollution • (2015) • short story by Alison Wilgus
• Trials • (2015) • novelette by Nicolas Wilson
• Multiply • (2015) • novelette by Nicolas Wilson
• Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers • (2015) • short story by Alyssa Wong
• The Fisher Queen • (2014) • short story by Alyssa Wong
• Santos de Sampaguitas • (2014) • short story by Alyssa Wong
• Fibonacci • (2015) • short story by Eleanor R. Wood
• Pawprints in the Aeolian Dust • (2015) • short story by Eleanor R. Wood
• Daddy's Girl • (2014) • short story by Eleanor R. Wood
• Season of the Ants in a Timeless Land • (2015) • novelette by Frank Wu
• H • (2015) • short story by Jeff Xilon
• All of Our Days • (2015) • short story by Jeff Xilon
• A House of Anxious Spiders • (2015) • short story by JY Yang [as by J. Y. Yang]
• Temporary Saints • (2015) • short story by JY Yang [as by J. Y. Yang]
• Song of the Krakenmaid • (2015) • short story by JY Yang
• Milagroso • (2015) • short story by Isabel Yap
• The Oiran's Song • (2015) • novelette by Isabel Yap
• Good Girls • (2015) • short story by Isabel Yap
• Inish Carraig (excerpt) • short fiction by Jo Zebedee
• Galen and the Golden-Coat Hare • (2014) • short story by Jon F. Zeigler
• The Pixie Game • (2015) • short story by Anna Zumbro
• The Cur of County Road Six • (2015) • short story by Anna Zumbro
• Dandelion • (2015) • short story by Leo Vladimirsky
• Sound of Chartreuse • (2015) • short story by Nancy S. M. Waldman