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Wicked Problem by Max Gladstone is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
This is the second book in the Craft Wars trilogy that caps the Craft Sequence.

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Originally Posted by lkmiller

See this post from J. Michael Straczynski on what he planned to include:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/43848905

(This was back around when he first announced he was going to do it.)

Meh, I'm much less interested in the book now. I'd prefer TLDV to be as close to what Ellison had planned (based on the contents published in Locus) as possible:

As the years passed, a number of them were withdrawn by the writers and published elsewhere, and it makes no sense to republish stories that are otherwise available.

If the authors will no longer allow the story to be part of the collection, I can understand. But Shirley Jackson's The Lottery has been republished more than once and people still manage to discover it for the first time. And:

The rights to the few stories from the original batch that will not be included in this volume will be freely and formally returned to the writers and/or their estates so that they can be allowed to see the light of day elsewhere.

To ignore stories originally written for the bookis just stupid.

Some of the remaining stories have been overtaken by real-world events, rendering them less relevant or timely, and regrettably will be omitted...

Using that logic, why read ANY old sci-fi? We don't have humaniform robots with positronic brains and the roads never rolled. Mars doesn't have a breathable atmosphere. I guess we should chuck it all.

Let The Last Dangerous Visions be a book of the time it was conceived and started. And you know what? People will buy it.

...some of the most well-known and respected writers working today have agreed to contribute stories to The Last Dangerous Visions...

Just publish that stuff as New Dangerous Visions.

At this point it's like that Led Zepplin tribute album The Song Retains the Name.