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• xi • Introduction (Invaders: 22 Tales from the Outer Limits of Literature) • (2016) • essay by Jacob Weisman
• 1 • Portal • (2011) • short story by J. Robert Lennon
• 13 • Beautiful Monsters • (2011) • short fiction by Eric Puchner
• 31 • The Squid Who Fell in Love with the Sun • (2013) • short story by Ben Loory
• 38 • Five Fucks • (1996) • novelette by Jonathan Lethem
• 59 • LIMBs • (2012) • novelette by Julia Elliott
• 78 • We Are the Olfanauts • (2015) • short story by Deji Bryce Olukotun
• 94 • The Region of Unlikeness • (2008) • short story by Rivka Galchen
• 114 • A Precursor of the Cinema • (2004) • novelette by Steven Millhauser
• 140 • In the Bushes • (2007) • short story by Jami Attenberg
• 145 • Fugue State • (2009) • novelette by Brian Evenson (variant of Fugue-State 2006)
• 181 • Reports Concerning the Death of the Seattle Albatross Are Somewhat Exaggerated • (2002) • short story by W. P. Kinsella
• 200 • Lambing Season • (2002) • short story by Molly Gloss
• 214 • Conrad Loomis & the Clothes Ray • (1998) • short story by Amiri Baraka
• 223 • Topics in Advanced Rocketry • (2013) • short story by Chris Tarry
• 233 • The Inner City • (2008) • short story by Karen Heuler
• 247 • Escape from Spiderhead • (2010) • novelette by George Saunders
• 273 • Amorometer • (2009) • short story by Kelly Luce
• 290 • The Yogurt of Vasirin Kefirovsky • (1975) • short story by Max Apple
• 306 • Monstro • (2012) • short story by Junot Díaz
• 329 • Minotaur • (2009) • short story by Jim Shepard
• 339 • Help Me Find My Spaceman Lover • (2016) • short story by Robert Olen Butler (variant of "Help Me Find My Spaceman Lover" 1996)
• 354 • Near-Flesh • (1991) • short story by Katherine Dunn