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• Foreword: The Alchemy of Reflection and Imagination • essay by Bryan Thao Worra
• All-Star Introduction • essay by Sandra J. Lindow
• The History of the Dwarf Stars Award • essay by Deborah P. Kolodji
• On Science Fiction • (1980) • poem by Thomas M. Disch
• Soul Searching • (2004) • poem by Tim Pratt
• No Ruined Lunar City • (2004) • poem by Greg Beatty
• Knowledge Of • (2005) • poem by Ruth Berman
• The Strip Search • (2005) • poem by Mike Allen
• The Tin Men • (2004) • poem by Kendall Evans and David C. Kopaska-Merkel
• Last Unicorn • (2006) • poem by Jane Yolen
• The Graven Idol's Godheart • (2006) • poem by Rich Ristow
• The Journey to Kailash • (2006) • poem by Mike Allen
• Place Mat by Moebius • (2007) • poem by Greg Beatty
• Eating Light • (2007) • poem by F. J. Bergmann
• The Seven Devils of Central California • (2007) • poem by Catherynne M. Valente
• Fireflies • (2008) • poem by Geoffrey A. Landis
• Song for an Ancient City • (2008) • poem by Amal El-Mohtar
• Search • (2008) • poem by Geoffrey A. Landis
• Bumbershoot • (2009) • poem by Howard V. Hendrix
• To Theia • (2009) • poem by Ann K. Schwader
• In the Astronaut Asylum • (2009) • poem by Kendall Evans and Samantha Henderson
• Comet • (2010) • poem by Julie Bloss Kelsey
• Peach-Creamed Honey • (2010) • poem by Amal El-Mohtar (variant of Peach Creamed Honey)
• The Sea King's Second Bride • (2010) • poem by C. S. E. Cooney
• Blue Rose Buddha • (2011) • poem by Marge Simon
• The Library, After • (2011) • poem by Shira Lipkin
• That's Fast, Brother! • (1952) • essay by Dale Lord
• Basho After Cinderella (iii) • (2012) • poem by Deborah P. Kolodji
• The Cat Star • (2012) • poem by Terry A. Garey
• Into Flight • (2012) • poem by Andrew Robert Sutton
• And Deeper Than Did Ever Plummet Sound • (2013) • poem by Mat Joiner
• Turning the Leaves • (2013) • poem by Amal El-Mohtar
• Interregnum • [Crowned • 1] • (2013) • poem by Mary Soon Lee
• Abandoned Nursing Home • (2013) • poem by Greg Schwartz
• Shutdown • (2014) • poem by Marge Simon
• 100 Reasons to Have Sex with an Alien • (2014) • poem by F. J. Bergmann
• We Begin This Way • (2015) • poem by Stacey Balkun
• Time Travel Vocabulary Problems • (2015) • poem by Ruth Berman
• It Begins with a Haunting • (2015) • poem by Krysada Panusith Phounsiri
• Keziah • (2015) • poem by Ann K. Schwader
• "aster than" • (2016) • poem by LeRoy Gorman
• George Tecumseh Sherman's Ghosts • (2016) • poem by Marge Simon
• Rose Child • (2016) • poem by Theodora Goss
• The Green • (2017) • poem by Kath Abela Wilson
• Advice to a Six-Year-Old • (2017) • poem by Mary Soon Lee
• The Mushroom Hunters • (2017) • poem by Neil Gaiman