Introduction / John Joseph Adams
Mazer in prison / Orson Scott Card
Carthago delenda est / Genevieve Valentine
Life-suspension / L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
Terra-exulta / S.L. Gilbow
Aftermaths / Lois McMaster Bujold
Someone is stealing the great throne rooms of the galaxy / Harry Turtledove
Prisons / Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason
Different day / K. Tempest Bradford
Twilight of the gods / John C. Wright
Warship / George R.R. Martin and George Guthridge
Spirey and the queen / Alastair Reynolds
Pardon our conquest / Alan Dean Foster
Symbiont / Robert Silverberg
Ship who returned / Anne McCaffrey
Shoulders of giants / Robert J. Sawyer
Culture archivist / Jeremiah Tolbert
Other side of Jordan / Allen Steele
Like they always been free / Georgina Li
Eskhara / Trent Hergenrader
One with the interstellar group consciousnesses / James Alan Gardner
Golubash, or wine-blood-war-elegy / Catherynne M. Valente.