Introduction and Overview: Who, What, Why -- Narrative Theory for Complexity Scientists -- Complex Systems for Narrative Theorists -- A Brief History of Systems Thinking -- Sense and Wonder: Complexity and the Limits of Narrative Understanding -- The Benefit of Doubt: Embracing Complexity and Uncertainty -- Simple Story of the Complex Mind? A Rhetorical Analysis of Cognitive Science Texts -- When Robots Tell Each Other Stories, or the Emergence of Artificial Fiction -- Plato with a Movie Camera: Visually Thinking of Complexity -- Augmenting Communication: Peering at Narratives and Complexity Through a Digital Arts Lens -- The Secret Life of Civilization -- Our Complex Earth -- Why Do We Trust Computer Simulations? -- Irreducible Complexity and Narrating the Endarkenment -- Gardening Complex Systems, and Other Metaphors -- Analysis of Contributions -- From Simplex to Complex Narrative: A New Model.