Contains a collection of short stories pitting the genres of science fiction and fantasy against one another in the ultimate robot versus fairy showdown. Features stories from a variety of best-selling and up and coming authors in both genres.

Introduction / by Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe -- Build me a wonderland / by Seanan McGuire -- Quality time / by Ken Liu -- Murmured under the moon / by Tim Pratt -- The blue fairy's manifesto / by Annalee Newitz -- Bread and milk and salt / by Sarah Gailey -- Ironheart / by Jonathan Maberry -- Just another love song / by Kat Howard -- Sound and fury / by Mary Robinette Kowal -- The bookcase expedition / by Jeffrey Ford -- Work shadow/shadow work / by Madeline Ashby -- Second to the left, and straight on / by Jim C. Hines -- The buried giant / by Lavie Tidhar -- Three robots experience objects left behind from the era of humans for the first time / by John Scalzi -- Ostentation of peacocks / by Delilah S. Dawson writing as Lila Bowen -- All the time we've left to spend / by Alyssa Wong -- Adriftica / by Maria Dahvana Headley -- To a cloven pine / by Max Gladstone -- A fall counts anywhere / by Catherynne M. Valente.