Ages of Wonder

Nineteen stories of myth and magic through the centuries Here are nineteen original stories of myth, magic, and the creatures of fantasy, as seen through different historical eras— from the Age of Antiquity to the Age of Sails, the Colonial Age, the Age of Pioneers, the Pre-Modern Age, and the Age to come...1 • Introduction (Ages of Wonder) • essay by Julie E. Czerneda and Rob St. Martin5 • The Curse Tablet • short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman24 • To Play the Game of Men • short story by Caitlin Sweet35 • Mist Wraith • short story by Urania Fung45 • Written in Smoke • short story by Karina Sumner-Smith65 • Cloud Above Water • short story by Natalie Millman80 • Crossing the Waters • short story by Ika Vanderkoeck96 • Here There Be Monsters • short story by Brad Carson113 • A Swift Changing Course • short story by Jana Paniccia131 • Blood and Soil • short story by Ceri Young145 • Fletcher's Ghost • short story by Liz Holliday168 • Immigrant • short story by Sandra Tayler185 • A Small Sacrifice • short story by Kristen Bonn200 • Pony Up • short story by Linda Davis213 • Gold at the End of the Railroad • short story by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough227 • The Stone Orrery • short story by Jennifer Crow243 • Sphinx! • short story by Tony Pi259 • A Bird in the Hand • short story by Queenie Tyrone277 • Mars Bound • short story by K. J. Gould289 • Angels and Moths • short story by Costi Gurgu (trans. of Îngeri și molii? 2010)