by Lavie Tidhar (Editor)
- “The Bahrain Underground Bazaar” by Nadia Afifi ★★★★★
- “The Ten-Percent Thief” by Lavanya Lakshminarayan ★★★
- “At Desk 9501” by Frances Ogamba ★★★
- “Bring Your Own Spoon” (reread) by Saad Z. Hossain ★★★★★
- “Blue Grey Blue” by Yukimi Ogawa ★★★½
- “Your Multicolored Life” by Xing He ★★
- “The Substance of Ideas” by Clelia Farris ★★½
- “Between the Firmaments” by Neon Yang ★★
- “The Farctory” by K.A. Teryna ★★½
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