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.