The Year's Best SF 25 # 2007

by Gardner Dozois (ed)

  Richard Paul Russo, “The King’s Physician,” Postscripts 11.

  William Sanders, “The Contractors,” Helix 3.

  Jason Sanford, “Rumspringa,” OSC’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, July.

  Pamela Sargent, “A Smaller Government,” Fast Forward 1.

  Erica L. Satifka, “Automatic,” Clarkesworld, January.

  John Scalzi, “How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story,” Subterranean Publishing.

  ____, “The Sagan Diary,” Subterranean Online, Fall.

  Ken Scholes, “Summer in Paris, Light from the Sky,” Clarkesworld, November.

  Ekaterina Sedia, “Virus Changes Skin,” Analog, October.

  Lori Selke, “Dead. Nude. Girls.,” Strange Horizons, February 12.

  Michael Shara & Jack McDevitt, “Cool Neighbor,” Analog, March.

  Delia Sherman, “The Fiddler of Bayou Teche,” Coyote Road.

  Lucius Shepard, “Dagger Key,” Dagger Key.

  ____, “Dead Money,” Asimov’s, April–May.

  ____, “The Ease With Which We Freed the Beast,” Inferno.

  ____, “Larissa Miusov,” Eclipse.

  ____, “Stars Seen through Stone,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, July.

  ____, “Vacancy,” Subterranean 7.

  Marc Shultz, “Practicing My Sad Face,” Strange Horizons, 27 August.

  William Shunn, “Not of This Fold,” An Alternate History of the 21st Century.

  ____, “Objective Impermeability in a Closed System,” An Alternate History of the 21st Century .

  Robert Silverberg, “The Eater of Dreams,” Asimov’s, April–May.

  ____, “The Emperor and the Maula,” The New Space Opera.

  Dan Simmons, “Muse of Fire,” The New Space Opera.

  Vandana Singh, “Life-Pod,” Foundation 100.

  Jack Skillingstead, “The Chimera Transit,” Asimov’s, February.

  ____, “Scrawl Daddy,” Asimov’s, May.

  ____, “Strangers on a Bus,” Asimov’s, December.

  ____, “Two,” Talebones, Summer.

  ____, “Thank You, Mr. Whiskers,” Asimov’s, August.

  Alan Smale, “A Trade in Serpents,” Realms of Fantasy, August.

  Cat Sparks, “Hollywood Roadkill,” On Spec, Summer.

  Katharine Sparrow, “Welcome to Oceanopia!,” Aeon Twelve.

  Hugh A.D. Spencer, “(Coping With) Norm Deviation,” Tesseracts Eleven.

  William Browning Spencer, “Stone and the Librarian,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, February.

  ____, “The Tenth Muse,” Subterranean 6.

  Brian Stableford, “Casualty,” Future Weapons of War.

  ____, “Doctor Muffet’s Island,” Asimov’s, March.

  ____, “The Trial,” Asimov’s, July.

  Justin Stanchfield, “Exile’s Child,” Visual Journeys.

  ____, “Prodigal,” Asimov’s, August.

  Allen M. Steele, “The River Horses,” Asimov’s, April–May.

  Bruce Sterling, “A Plain Tale from Our Hills,” Subterranean, Spring.

  ____, “The Interoperation,” MIT Technology Review November–December.

  ____, “The Lustration,” Eclipse.

  Jason Stoddard, “The Best of Your Life,” Interzone, October–November.

  ____, “Fermi Packet,” Talebones, Winter.

  ____, “Softly Shining in the Forbidden Dark,” Interzone, February.

  ____, “True History,” Darker Matter, August.

  Charles Stross, “Minutes of the Labour Party Conference, 2016,” Glorifying Terrorism.

  ____, “Trunk and Disorderly,” Asimov’s, January.

  Beverly Suarez-Beard, “A Thing Brilliant and Fine,” Cricket, June–July.

  Tricia Sullivan, “The Spirit of Radio,” Foundation 100.

  Michael Swanwick, “A Small Room in Koboldtown,” Asimov’s, April–May.

  ____, “Congratulations from the Future!,” Asimov’s, July.

  ____, “Urdumheim,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, October–November.

  Rachel Swirsky, “Dispersed by the Sun, Melting in the Wind,” Subterranean Online, Summer.

  Anna Tambour, “The Jeweller of Second-Hand Roe,” Subterranean 7.

  Jeffrey Thomas, “In His Sights,” Solaris Book of New SF.

  Lavie Tidhar, “Bophuthatswana,” Glorifying Terrorism.

  ____, “Elsbeth Rose,” Fantasy Magazine Online, 28 October.

  ____, “The Fateful Voyage of the Madame Liberté,” Ruins Extraterrestrial.

  ____, “The Master,” Strange Horizons, 8 October.

  ____, “The Prisoner in the Forest,” Electric Velocipede 12.

  ____, “What the Thunder Said,” Strange Horizons, 2 April.

  Jeremiah Tolbert, “Captain Blood’s Booty,” Shimmer, The Pirate Issue.

  Harry Turtledove, “Hoxbomb,” Alien Crimes.

  Mary A. Turzillo, “Pride,” Fast Forward 1.

  ____, “Zora and the Land Ethic Nomads,” The Solaris Book of New SF.

  Lisa Tuttle, “Closet Dreams,” Postscripts 10.

  ____, “Old Mr. Boudreaux,” Subterranean 7.

  ____& Steven Utley, “In the Hole,” Black Static 2.

  Melissa Tyler, “The Sky Spider,” Aeon Eleven.

  Rajnar Vajra, “Emerald River, Pearl Sky,” Analog, January–February.

  Jeff VanderMeer, “The Third Bear,” Clarkesworld, April.

  ____& Cat Rambo, “The Surgeon’s Tale,” Subterranean Online, Winter.

  Greg Van Eekhout, “Hermod’s Ride,” Flytrap 8.

  Mark L. Van Name, “Broken Bits,” Future Weapons of War.

  James Van Pelt, “How Music Begins,” Asimov’s, September.

  Carrie Vaughn, “Marrying In,” Asimov’s, May.

  ____, “Swing Time,” Jim Baen Universe, June.

  Edd Vick, “Rebel the First,” Jim Baen Universe, February.

  Elisabeth Vonarburg, “Language of the Night,” Tesseracts Eleven.

  Jo Walton, “Tradition,” Lone Star Stories, June 1.

  William John Watkins, “The Polka Man,” OSC’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, July.

  Ian Watson, “Cages,” Solaris Book of New Science Fiction.

  K.D. Wentworth, “Kaleidoscope,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, May.

  Leslie What, “Tsuris,” Logorrhea.

  Ysabeau S. Wilce, “Quartermaster Returns,” Eclipse.

  Jan Wildt, “The After-Life,” Flytrap 6.

  Donna Glee Williams, “Limits,” Strange Horizons, 23 July.

  Liz Williams, “Debatable Lands,” Asimov’s, October–November.

  ____, “The Hide,” Strange Horizons, 7 May.

  ____, “Lyceum,” Logorrhea.

  ____, “Wolves of the Spirit,” Asimov’s, April–May.

  Sean Williams, “Cenotaxis,” MonkeyBrain Books.

  Tad Williams, “The Stranger’s Hands,” Wizards.

  Walter Jon Williams, “Send Them Flowers,” The New Space Opera.

  ____, “Womb of Every World,” Alien Crimes.

  Michael Z. Williamson, “Humans Call It Duty,” Future Weapons of War.

  Connie Willis, “All Seated on the Ground,” Asimov’s, December.

  Chris Willrich, “A Wizard of the Old School,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, August.

  Robert Charles Wilson, “YFL-500,” Fast Forward 1.

  Eric Witchey, “Running Water for L.A.,” Jim Baen Universe, June.

  Gene Wolfe, “Green Glass,” Asimov’s, April–May.

  ____, “The Hour of the Sheep,” Fast Forward 1.

  ____, “The Magic Animal,” Wizards.

  ____, “Memorare,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, April.

  ____, “Unrequited Love,” Foundation 100.

  John C. Wright, “Silence of the Night,” Night Lands, 21 May.

  Jane Yolen, “Slipping Sideways through Eternity,” Wizards.

  Marly Youmans, “The Comb,” Fantasy Magazine Online, 24 December.

  ____, “Drunk Bay,” Pos
tscripts 13.

  ____, “Prologomenon to the Adventures of Childe Phoenix,” Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, June.

  George Zebrowski, “Settlements,” Fast Forward 1.

  Kim Zimring, “My Heart as Dry as Dust,” Asimov’s, September.

  These are works of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in these stories are either products of the authors’ imagination or are used fictitiously.

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