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• 1 • Introduction (The New Space Opera 2) • (2009) • essay by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan
• 4 • Utriusque Cosmi • (2009) • novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
• 30 • The Island • [Sunflower Cycle] • (2009) • novelette by Peter Watts
• 70 • Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance • (2009) • novelette by John Kessel
• 106 • To Go Boldly • (2009) • short story by Cory Doctorow
• 128 • The Lost Princess Man • (2009) • novelette by John Barnes
• 157 • Defect • (2009) • novelette by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• 198 • To Raise a Mutiny Betwixt Yourselves • [Sunspin] • (2009) • novelette by Jay Lake
• 237 • Shell Game • [Polity Universe] • (2009) • novelette by Neal Asher
• 270 • Punctuality • (2009) • short story by Garth Nix
• 278 • Inevitable • (2009) • novelette by Sean Williams
• 310 • Join the Navy and See the Worlds • (2009) • short story by Bruce Sterling
• 334 • Fearless Space Pirates of the Outer Rings • (2009) • novelette by Bill Willingham
• 366 • From the Heart • (2009) • novelette by John Meaney
• 401 • Chameleons • (2009) • novella by Elizabeth Moon
• 464 • The Tenth Muse • (2009) • novelette by Tad Williams
• 492 • Cracklegrackle • [Natural History] • (2009) • novelette by Justina Robson
• 531 • The Tale of the Wicked • (2009) • novelette by John Scalzi
• 556 • Catastrophe Baker and a Canticle for Leibowitz • [Catastrophe Baker] • (2009) • short story by Mike Resnick
• 572 • The Far End of History • (2009) • novelette by John C. Wright