Short Stories
Monster Girls Don’t Cry, by Merc Rustad
The Light We Carried Home, by Kay Chronister
Prosthetic Daughter, by Nin Harris
With Cardamom I’ll Bind Their Lips, by Beth Cato
Anabasis, by Amal El-Mohtar
O Stone, Be Not So, by José Iriarte
They Will Take You From You, by Brandon O’Brien
The Falling Game, by Ian Muneshwar
Sun, Moon, Dust, by Ursula Vernon
Queen of Dirt, by Nisi Shawl
The Sound of, by Charles Payseur
Carnival Nine, by Caroline Yoachim
Utopia, LOL?, by Jamie Wahls
The Ghosts of Europa Will Keep You Trapped In a Prison You Make for Yourself, Matt Dovey
Of Letters They Are Made, by Jonathan Edelstein
The Martian Obelisk, by Linda Nagata
The Stone Weta, by Octavia Cade
If a Bird Can Be a Ghost, by Allison Mills
Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand, by Fran Wilde
These Constellations Will Be Yours, by Elaine Cuyegkeng
Shadow Man, Sack Man, Half Dark, Half Light, by Malon Edwards
The Sound of His Voice Like the Colour of Salt, by L Chan
The Heart Seed, by Joanne Rixon
Forgive Us Our Trespasses, Bennett North
Hare’s Breath, by Maria Haskins
An Equal Share of the Bone, by Karen Osbourne
The Atomic Hallows and the Body of Science, Octavia Cade
Pipecleaner Sculptures and Other Necessary Work, Tina Connolly
Novelettes
A Human Stain, by Kelly Robson
Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time, K.M. Szpara
Waiting on a Bright Moon, JY Yang
The Bridgegroom, Bo Balder
I Am Not I, by G.V. Anderson (F&SF)
The Birding: A Fairy Tale, by Natalia Theodoridou
Novellas
All Systems Red, by Martha Wells
The Black Tides of Heaven, by JY Yang
The Red Threads of Fortune, by JY Yang
A Portrait of the Desert in Personages of Power, by Rose Lemberg (Part 1 and Part 2)
River of Teeth, by Sarah Gailey
17776, by Jon Bois
Novels
Under the Pendulum Sun, by Jeannette Ng
The Stars Are Legion, by Kameron Hurley
Amberlough, by Lara Elena Donelly
The Stone Sky, by N.K. Jemisin
City of Miracles, by Robert Jackson Bennett
The Art of Starving, by Sam J. Miller
Raven Stratagem, by Yoon Ha Lee
The Guns Above, by Robyn Bennis
Autonomous, by Annalee Newitz
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