Lightspeed:  Year One
Edited by John Joseph Adams

(Prime Books, November 2011)

“I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno” by Vylar Kaftan
“The Cassandra Project” by Jack McDevitt
“Cats in Victory” by David Barr Kirtley
“Amaryllis” by Carrie Vaughn
“No Time like the Present” by Carol Emshwiller
“Manumission” by Tobias S. Buckell
“The Zeppelin Conductors’ Society Annual Gentlemen’s Ball” by Genevieve Valentine
“…For a Single Yesterday”  by George R.R. Martin
“How to Become a Mars Overlord” by Catherynne M. Valente
“Patient Zero” by Tananarive Due
“Arvies” by Adam-Troy Castro
“More than the Sum of His Parts” by Joe Haldeman
“Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain” by Yoon Ha Lee
“The Long Chase” by Geoffrey A. Landis
“Amid the Words of War” by Cat Rambo
“Travelers” by Robert Silverberg
“Hindsight” by Sarah Langan
“Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back” by Joe R. Lansdale
“The Taste of Starlight” by John R. Fulz
“Beachworld” by Stephen King
“Standard Loneliness Package” by Charles Yu
“Faces in Revolving Souls” by Caitlin R. Kiernan
“Hwang’s Billion Brilliant Daughters” by Alice Sola Kim
“EJ·ES” by Nancy Kress
“In-Fall” by Ted Kosmatka
“The Observer” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
“Jenny’s Sick” by David Taucrum
“The Silence of the Asonu” by Ursula K Le Guin
“Postings from an Amorous Tomorrow” by Corey Mariani
“Cucumber Gravy” by Susan Palwick
“Black Fire” by Tanith Lee
“The Elephants of Poznan” by Orson Scott Card
“Long Enough and Just So Long” by Cat Rambo
“The Passenger” by June E. Czerneda
“Simulacrum” by Ken Liu
“Breakaway, Backdown” by James Patrick Kelly
“Saying the Names” by Maggie Clark
“Gossamer” by Stephen Baxter
“Spider the Artist” by Nnedi Okorafor
“Woman Leaves Room” by Robert Reed
“All That Touches the Air” by An Owomoyela
“Maneki Neko” by Bruce Sterling
“Mama, We Are Zhenya, Your Son” by Tom Crosshill
“Velvet Fields,” by Anne McCaffrey
“The Harrowers” by Eric Gregory
“Bibi From Jupiter” by Tessa Mellas
“Eliot Wrote” by Nancy Kress
“Scales” by Alastair Reynolds”

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