How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens explores the immigrant experience in a science fiction setting, with exciting fiction and poetry from some of the genre's best writers, including Sturgeon winner Sarah Pinsker, James Tiptree, Jr., Award winner Nisi Shawl, and Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Award winner Ken Liu. Dean Francis Alfar, "Ohkti" Celia Lisset Alvarez, "Malibu Barbie Moves to Mars" R.J. Astruc, "A Believer's Guide to Azagarth" Lisa Bao, "like father, like daughter" Pinckney Benedict, "Zog-19: A Scientific Romance" Lisa Bolekaja, "The Saltwater African" Mary Buchinger, "Transplanted" Zen Cho, "The Four Generations of Chang E" Abbey Mei Otis, "Blood, Blood" Tina Connolly, "Turning the Apples" Indrapramit Das, "muo-ka's Child" Tom Doyle, "The Floating Otherworld" Peg Duthie, "With Light-Years Come Heaviness" Thomas Greene, "Zero Bar" Benjamin S. Grossberg, "The Space Traveler's Husband," "The Space Traveler and the Promised Planet" and "The Space Traveler and Boston" Minal Hajratwala, "The Unicorn at the Racetrack" Julie Bloss Kelsey, "tongue lashing" and "the itch of new skin" Rose Lemberg, "The Three Immigrations" Ken Liu, "Ghost Days" Alex Dally MacFarlane, "Found" Anil Menon, "Into The Night" Joanne Merriam, "Little Ambushes" Mary Anne Mohanraj, "Jump Space" Daniel Jose Older, "Phantom Overload" Sarah Pinsker, "The Low Hum of Her" Elyss G. Punsalan, "Ashland" Benjamin Rosenbaum, "The Guy Who Worked For Money" Erica L. Satifka, "Sea Changes" Nisi Shawl, "In Colors Everywhere" Lewis Shiner, "Primes" Marge Simon, "South" Sonya Taaffe, "Di Vayse Pave" Bogi Takacs, "The Tiny English-Hungarian Phrasebook For Visiting Extraterrestrials" Bryan Thao Worra, "Dead End In December" and "The Deep Ones" Deborah Walker, "Speed of Love" Nick Wood, "Azania"