Contents The Fifth Dragon, Ian McDonald The Rider, Jérôme Cigut The Days of the War, as Red as Blood, as Dark as Bile, Aliette de Bodard The Burial of Sir John Mawe at Cassini, Chaz Brenchley The Regular, Ken Liu The Woman from the Ocean, Karl Bunker Shooting the Apocalypse, Paolo Bachigalupi Weather, Susan Palwick The Hand Is Quicker, Elizabeth Bear The Man Who Sold the Moon, Cory Doctorow Vladimir Chong Chooses To Die, Lavie Tidhar Beside the Damned River, D.J. Cockburn The Colonel, Peter Watts Entanglement, Vandana Singh White Curtain, Pavel Amnuel Slipping, Lauren Beukes Passage of Earth, Michael Swanwick Amicae Aeternum, Ellen Klages In Babelsberg, Alastair Reynolds Sadness, Timons Esaias West to East, Jay Lake Grand Jeté (The Great Leap), Rachel Swirsky Covenent, Elizabeth Bear Jubilee, Karl Schroeder Los Pirates del Mar de Plastico (Pirates of the Plastic Ocean), Paul Graham Raven Red Light, and Rain, Gareth L. Powell Coma Kings, Jessica Barber The Prodigal Son, Allen M. Steele God Decay, Rich Larson Blood Wedding, Robert Reed The Long Haul, from the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009, Ken Liu Shadow Flock, Greg Egan Thing and Sick, Adam Roberts Communion, Mary Anne Mohanraj Someday, James Patrick Kelly Yesterday's Kin, Nancy Kress Honorable Mentions: 2014.