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“Shedding Skin; Or How the World Came to Be”, originally published in The Clockwork Jungle Book (Issue #11) is by & © Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
“Introduction: Going Global, or Re-Engineering Steampunk Fiction” is by & © Diana M. Pho
“Shedding Skin; Or, How the World Came to Be” is by & © Jay Lake
“Hidden Strength” is by & © Jaymee Goh
“Promised” is by & © Nisi Shawl
“The Firebird” is by & © Emily Cataneo
“The Little Begum” is by & © Indrapramit Das
“Forty Pieces” is by & © Lucien Soulban
“Hatavat Chalom” is by & © Lillian Cohen-Moore
“The Leviathan of Trincomalee” is by & © Lucy A. Snyder
“The Hand of Sa-Seti” is by & © Balogun Ojetade
“The Omai Gods” is by & © Alex Bledsoe
“The Governess and We” is by & © Benjanun Sriduangkaew
“Tangi A Te Ruru/The Cry of the Morepork” is by & © Pip Ballantine
“The Construct Also Dreams of Flight” is by & © Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
“Budo, or the Flying Orchid” is by & © Tade Thompson
“The Şehrazatın Diyoraması Tour” is by & © S. J. Chambers
“The Emperor Everlasting” is by & © Nayad A. Monroe
“Mary Sundown and the Clockmaker’s Children” is by & © Malon Edwards
“Good Hunting”, originally published in Strange Horizons in October 2012, is by & © Ken Liu
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