"Artie's Angels" © 2001 by Catherine Wells Dimenstein. Originally published in Realms of Fantasy, December 2001. Reprinted by permission of the author.

"Judgment Passed" © 2008 by Jerry Oltion. Appears for the first time in this volume.

"Mute" © 2002 by Gene Wolfe. Originally published in 2002 World Horror Convention Program Book. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author's agents, the Virginia Kidd Agency.

inertia" © 1990 by Nancy Kress. Originally published in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, January 1990. Reprinted by permission of the author.

"And the Deep Blue Sea" © 2005 by Elizabeth Bear. Originally published in SCI FICTION, May 4, 2005. Reprinted by permission of the author.

"Speech Sounds'' © 1983 by Octavia E. Butler. Originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction, Mid-December 1983. Reprinted by permission of the estate of Octavia E. Butler.

"Killers" © 2006 by Carol Emshwiller. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2006. Reprinted by permission of the author.

"Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus" © 1988 by Neal Barrett, Jr. Originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1988. Reprinted by permission of the author.

"The End of the World as We Know It" © 2004 by Dale Bailey. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2004. Reprinted by permission of the author.

"A Song Before Sunset" © 1976 by David Rowland Grigg. Originally published in Beyond Tomorrow. 1976. Reprinted by permission of the author.

"Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of the Purple Flowers" © 2007 by John Langan. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 2007. Reprinted by permission of the author.