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Emile Saint-Just, the last surviving member of the crew of the Mary Damned, a legendary ghost ship, is determined to bring her back and continue the revolution against the corrupt Justica.

His family destroyed and his dreams crushed by the corporation that controls his Brazilian home through technology and drugs, Paulo seeks revenge, aided by Zaide, a woman with a computer implant in her brain that provides access to government data.

This novelette originally appeared in the anthology To Shape the Dark (2016), edited by Athena Andreadis. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection (2017), edited by Gardner Dozois.

Cataia, the Crown Princess, cheated out of her right to rule. Tiernon, the Adept, so much more than the court fop he seems. Bertham, the King's man, in thrall to a demon in his lust for power. Ayt, the High Priestess, who plays for stakes only she perceives. Siuran, the nomad, who lives to see the prophecies fulfilled. These are a few of the players in a game of court intrigue, with a kingdom as a prize. And behind the mirror the Laughing Master waits, to claim the souls of the losers...

The colony world of Reis was once a prosperous, glittering center of manufacture and trade. But now, in the grip of planet-wide plague, Reis has been quarantined--cut off from the rest of the galaxy. Only electronic communication can cross the barrier.

No one knew where the plague came from. No one knows how it is spread. And no one knows who will live or die. Which leaves one big question: What do you do in the meantime, while you're waiting to find out?

Time is killing them, but the handful of disaffected artists who hang at Club Metz are past masters at killing time. Society is falling apart; the A.I. that runs everything is acting weirder every day--but they'll find ways to survive, or at least prevail.

In the futuristic world in which he lives, Dante McCall, the only person not genetically identical to everyone else, is branded a freak, banished from Earth, and stranded among a strange starfaring culture.

To her fellow pilots Gaelian is the Angel, the best of their elite fighting force. To the powerful ruling Board of Dinoreos, she is the ELDEST OF THE ELDEST of her household, scheming and plotting to claim her rightful place, while she strives to overcome the handicap of a childhood spent on the primitive world of Cahaute.

But Gaelian is haunted by memories. Even in space she feels the Power Clans of Cahaute with her---though to surrender to the magic of her childhood would mean abandoning the honors and privileges she has workd so hard for on Dinoreos.

Then, before she can make her choice, Gaelian discovers a secret older than either of her worlds---and suddenly she holds the future of both in her hands...

A mysterious signal lures the Voyager to an uncharted sector of the Delta Quadrant, where the crews find a ghost ship floating in space. Hoping the mysterious ship might hold a clue that could help her vessel return home, Janeway launches an investigation, and soon a strange presence casts a kind of spell over the crew. If Janeway can't pierce the ship's mystery, the Voyager may wind up drifting in space, another ships of ghostly inhabitants.