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• 1 • Introduction (The New Space Opera 2) • essay by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan
• 3 • Utriusque Cosmi • (2009) • novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
• 27 • The Island • [Sunflower Cycle] • (2009) • novelette by Peter Watts
• 63 • Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance • novelette by John Kessel
• 93 • To Go Boldly • short story by Cory Doctorow
• 113 • The Lost Princess Man • (2009) • novelette by John Barnes
• 139 • Defect • (2009) • novelette by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• 175 • To Raise a Mutiny Betwixt Yourselves • [Sunspin] • (2009) • novelette by Jay Lake
• 209 • Shell Game • [Polity Universe] • (2009) • novelette by Neal Asher
• 237 • Punctuality • (2009) • short story by Garth Nix
• 245 • Inevitable • (2009) • novelette by Sean Williams
• 273 • Join the Navy and See the Worlds • (2009) • short story by Bruce Sterling
• 293 • Fearless Space Pirates of the Outer Rings • (2009) • novelette by Bill Willingham
• 321 • From the Heart • (2009) • novelette by John Meaney
• 353 • Chameleons • (2009) • novella by Elizabeth Moon
• 407 • The Tenth Muse • (2009) • novelette by Tad Williams
• 431 • Cracklegrackle • [Natural History] • novelette by Justina Robson
• 465 • The Tale of the Wicked • (2009) • novelette by John Scalzi
• 487 • Catastrophe Baker and a Canticle for Leibowitz • [Catastrophe Baker] • (2009) • short story by Mike Resnick
• 501 • The Far End of History • novelette by John C. Wright