Federations : vast, epic, interstellar / edited by John Joseph Adams.

Introduction / John Joseph Adams -- Mazer in prison / Orson Scott Card -- Carthago delenda est / Genevieve Valentine -- Life-suspension / L.E. Modesitt, Jr. -- Terra-exulta / Place of publication not identified Gilbow -- Aftermaths / Lois McMaster Bujold -- Someone is stealing the great throne rooms of the galaxy / Harry Turtledove -- Prisons / Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason -- Different day / K. Tempest Bradford -- Twilight of the gods / John C. Wright -- Warship / George R.R. Martin and George Guthridge -- Swanwatch / Yoon Ha Lee -- Spirey and the queen / Alastair Reynolds -- Pardon our conquest / Alan Dean Foster -- Symbiont / Robert Silverberg -- Ship who returned / Anne McCaffrey -- My she / Mary Rosenblum -- Shoulders of giants / Robert J. Sawyer -- Culture archivist / Jeremiah Tolbert -- Other side of Jordan / Allen Steele -- Like they always been free / Georgina Li -- Eskhara / Trent Hergenrader -- One with the interstellar group consciousnesses / James Alan Gardner -- Golubash, or wine-blood-war-elegy / Catherynne M. Valente.