«The Trader» by Cinda Williams Chima. © 2010 by Cinda Williams Chima.

«John Uskglass and the Cumbrian Charcoal Burner» by Susanna Clarke. © 2006 Susanna Clarke. Originally published in The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories (Bloomsbury, 2006). Reprinted by permission of the author.

«Feeding the Feral Children» by David Farland. © 2010 by David Farland.

«The Tiger by Its Tail» by С. C. Finlay. © 2010 by С. C. Finlay.

«The Sorcerer Minus» by Jeffrey Ford. © 2010 by Jeffrey Ford.

«The Thirteen Texts of Arthyria» by John R. Fultz. © 2010 by John R. Fultz.

«How to Sell the Ponti Bridge» by Neil Gaiman. © 1985 by Neil Gaiman. Originally published in Imagine #24, March 1985. Reprinted by permission of the author.

«Street Wizard» by Simon R. Green. © 2010 by Simon R. Green.

«Endgame» by Lev Grossman. © 2010 by Lev Grossman. Originally published on Borders.com. Reprinted by permission of the author.

«The Ereshkigal Working» by Jonathan L. Howard. © 2010 by Jonathan L. Howard.

«The Orange-Tree Sacrifice» by Vylar Kaftan. © 2010 by Vylar Kaftan.

«Card Sharp» by Rajan Khanna. © 2010 by Rajan Khanna.

«Family Tree» by David Barr Kirtley. © 2010 by David Barr Kirtley.

«The Word of Unbinding» by Ursula K. Le Guin. © 1964, 1992 by Ursula K. Le Guin. First appeared in Fantastic, January 1964; from The Wind's Twelve Quarters (Harper & Rowe, 1975); reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agents, the Virginia Kidd Agency, Inc.

«Too Fatal a Poison» by Krista Hoeppner Leahy. © 2010 by Krista Hoeppner Leahy.

«Counting the Shapes» by Yoon Ha Lee. © 2001 by Yoon Ha Lee. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2001. Reprinted by permission of the author.

«The Wizards of Perfil» by Kelly Link. © 2006 by Kelly Link. Originally published in Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. Sharyn November (Firebird, 2006). Reprinted by permission of the author.

«In the Lost Lands» by George R. R. Martin. © 1982 by George R. R. Martin. Originally published in Amazons II, ed. by Jessica Amanda Salmonson (Daw 1982). Reprinted by permission of the author.

«The Go-Slow» by Nnedi Okorafor. © 2010 by Nnedi Okorafor.

«Mommy Issues of the Dead» by T. A. Pratt. © 2010 by T. A. Pratt.

«Winter Solstice» by Mike Resnick. © 1991 by Mike Resnick. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November, 1991. Reprinted by permission of the author.

«Wizard’s Apprentice» by Delia Sherman. © 2009 by Delia Sherman. Originally published in Troll’s Eye View: A Book of Villainous Fairy Tale, eds. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (Viking, 2009). Reprinted by permission of the author.

«The Sorcerer’s Apprentice» by Robert Silverberg. © 2004 by Agberg, Ltd. Originally published in Mights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, ed. Al Sarrantonio (ROC 2004). Reprinted by permission of the author.

«One-Click Banishment» by Jeremiah Tolbert. © 2010 by Jeremiah Tolbert.

«So Deep That the Bottom Could Not Be Seen» by Genevieve Valentine. © 2010 by Genevieve Valentine.

«The Secret of Calling Rabbits» by Wendy Wagner. © 2010 by Wendy Wagner.

«The Magician and the Maid and Other Stories» by Christie Yant. © 2010 by Christie Yant.