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• ix • Permissions (The Long List Anthology: Volume 8) • essay by David Steffen
• 1 • For Lack of a Bed • (2021) • short story by John Wiswell
• 11 • The Cold Calculations • [Cold Equations (Godwin)] • (2021) • short fiction by Aimee Ogden
• 25 • Laughter Among the Trees • (2021) • short story by Suzan Palumbo
• 41 • The Revolution Will Not Be Served with Fries • (2021) • short story by Meg Elison
• 55 • If the Martians Have Magic • (2021) • short story by
  P. Djèlí Clark^?P. Djeli Clark
• 73 • Let All the Children Boogie • (2021) • short story by Sam J. Miller
• 93 • Crazy Beautiful • (2021) • short story by Cat Rambo
• 105 • Things from Our Kitchen Junk Drawer That Could Save This Spaceship • (2021) • short story by Marie Vibbert
• 109 • Before, After, and the Space Between • (2021) • short fiction by Kel Coleman
• 123 • Orumai's Choice • (2021) • short story by Gautam Bhatia
• 131 • Questions Asked in the Belly of the World • (2021) • short fiction by A. T. Greenblatt
• 157 • Mulberry and Owl • [Universe of Xuya] • (2021) • novelette by Aliette de Bodard
• 179 • The General's Turn • (2021) • novelette by Premee Mohamed
• 199 • The Music of the Siphorophenes • (2021) • novelette by C. L. Polk
• 223 • Just Enough Rain • (2021) • novelette by P. H. Lee
• 253 • Ina's Spark • (2021) • novelette by Mary Robinette Kowal
• 285 • The Red Mother • (2021) • short fiction by Elizabeth Bear
• 317 • Small Monsters • (2021) • short story by E. Lily Yu
• 339 • Tombs of the Universe • (2021) • short fiction by
  韩松^?Han Song
  (trans. of
  宇宙墓碑^?yuzhou mubei
  1991) [as by Han Song]
• 367 • (emet) • (2021) • novelette by Lauren Ring
• 387 • Submergence • (2021) • novella by Arula Ratnakar