Introduction / Paula Guran -- The books / Kage Baker -- Tumaki / Nnedi Okorafor -- The egg man / Mary Rosenblum -- Chislehurst Messiah / Lauren Beukes -- Ragnarok / Paul Park -- Beat me daddy (eight to the bar) / Cory Doctorow -- After the apocalypse / Maureen F. McHugh -- We will never live in the castle / Paul Tremblay -- Never, never, three times never / Simon Morden -- Pump six / Paolo Bacigalupi -- The disappeared / Blake Butler -- Amaryllis / Carrie Vaughn -- The fifth star in the Southern Cross / Margo Lanagan -- True North / M.J. Locke -- Horses / Livia Llewellyn -- The Cecilia paradox / John Mantooth -- The adjudicator / Brian Evenson -- A story, with beans / Steven Gould -- Goddess of mercy / Bruce Sterling -- Isolation Point, California / John Shirley.