Foreword / by Chris Claremont --
Professor Incognito apologizes: an itemized list / Austin Grossman --
Father of the groom / Harry Turtledove --
Laughter at the academy / Seanan McGuire --
Letter to the editor / David D. Levine --
Instead of a loving heart / Jeremiah Tolbert --
The executor / Daniel H. Wilson --
The angel of death has a business plan / Heather Lindsley --
Homo perfectus / David Farland --
Ancient equations / L.A. Banks --
Rural singularity / Alan Dean Foster --
Captain Justice saves the day / Genevieve Valentine --
The mad scientist's daughter / Theodora Goss --
The space between / Diana Gabaldon --
Harry and Marlowe meet the founder of the Aetherian Revolution / Carrie Vaughn --
Blood & stardust / Laird Barron --
A more perfect union / L.E. Modesitt, Jr. --
Rocks fall / Naomi Novik --
We interrupt this broadcast / Mary Robinette Kowal --
The last dignity of man / Marjorie M. Liu --
The Pittsburgh technology / Jeffrey Ford --
Mofongo knows / Grady Hendrix --
The food taster's boy / Ben H. Winters.