Foreword by Jacqueline Carey -- Introduction: The power of three -- Heart box / by Callie Bates -- Everybody said it would hurt / by Lev Grossman -- A thousand years / by Mark Lawrence -- Among a throng of bilious octogenarians / by Delilah s. Dawson -- Blood of the Sardaukar / by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson -- Allanon's quest / by Terry Brooks -- Kneeling before Jupiter / by David Anthony Durham -- Stripes in the sunset / by Seanan McGuire -- All that glitters / by Marc Turner -- Heir apparent / by John Gwynne -- Dancing on the edge / by Deborah A. Wolf -- Prologue: Second book of The Evertide / by Todd Lockwood -- Thasha's cure for cabin fever / by Robert V. S. Redick -- How not to invade a country / by Anna Stephens -- Paper man / by Peter Orullian -- Merchants have maxims / by Cat Rambo -- Of anchor chains and slow refrains and light long lost in darkness / by Ken Scholes -- Second chances / by Megan Lindholm -- Hidden / by Tad Williams -- Throwdown / by Scott Sigler -- Sidekick / by Carrie Vaughn -- Hawkeye / by Patrick Swenson -- Spectral sword / by Ramón Terrell -- Gold light / by Anna Smith Spark -- Stone golem of Qual'Jom / by Jason Denzel -- A fire within the ways / by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson -- Seven / by Naomi Novik -- Fire-risen ash / by Shawn Speakman