Paul E. Marten, “The Times She Went Away,” Low Port.
George R. R. Martin, “The Sworn Sword,” Legends II.
David Marusek, “Listen To Me,” Asimov’s, June.
Susan R. Matthews, “Society’s Stepchild,” Stars.
John Meaney, “Entangled Eyes Are Smiling,” Interzone, July/August.
———, “The Swastika Bomb,” Live Without a Net.
Eugene Mirabelli, “The Only Known Jump Across Time,” F&SF, September.
Rick Moody, “The Albertine Notes,” McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales.
David Moles, “Fetch,” Strange Horizons, 5/12.
———, “Theo’s Girl,” Polyphony 2.
Sarah Monette, “Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland,” Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 11.
John Morressy, “The Artificer’s Tale,” F&SF, October/November.
———, “The Resurrections of Fortunato,” F&SF, March.
James Morrow, “The Fate of Nations,” SCI FICTION, 5/14.
Susan Mosser, “Bumpship,” Trampoline.
Derryl Murphy, “Island of the Moon,” Neo-Opsis.
Pat Murphy. “Dragon’s Gate,” F&SF, August.
———, “The Wild Girls,” Witpunk.
Ruth Nestvold, “Looking Through Lace,” Asimov’s, September.
———, “Wooing Ai Kyarem,” Andromeda Spaceways, December.
Larry Niven, “The Death Addict,” Analog, May.
———, “The Ones Who Stay Home,” Analog, January.
——— & Brenda Cooper, “The Trellis,” Analog, November.
G. David Nordley, “The Fire and the Wind,” Analog, July/August.
Patrick O’ Leary, “The Dream of Vibo,” Imagination Fully Dilated.
Jerry Oltion, “The Glass Ceiling,” Artemis, Winter.
———, “The Navatar,” F&SF, October/November.
Richard Parks, “The Plum Blossom Lantern,” Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet.
———, “Yamabushi,” Realms of Fantasy, December.
———, “Worshipping Small Gods,” Realms of Fantasy, August.
Severna Park, “Call For Submissions,” Women Writing Science Fiction As Men.
Lawrence Person, “Morlock Chili,” Asimov’s, June.
Ursula Pflug, “Python,” Album Zutique.
Brian Plante, “Halloweentown,” Analog, October.
———, “Lavender in Love,” Analog, February.
———, “Transitory,” Beyond the Last Star.
P. J. Plauger, “Lucky Luke,” Analog, December.
Steven Popkes, “The Birds of Isla Mujeres,” F&SF, January.
———, “Stegosaurus Boy,” Realms of Fantasy, February.
Tim Pratt, “Captain Fantasy and the Secret Masters,” Realms of Fantasy, April.
———, “Romanticore,” Realms of Fantasy, December.
Tom Purdom, “The Path of the Transgressor,” Asimov’s, June.
———, “Sheltering,” Asimov’s, August.
Wolf Read, “Between Singularities,” Analog, February.
Michael Reaves, “The Legend of the Midnight Cruiser,” F&SF, December.
Kit Reed, “Focus Group,” Asimov’s, September.
———, “Visiting the Dead,” F&SF, March.
Robert Reed, “Buffalo Wolf,” F&SF, March.
———, “555,” F&SF, May.
———, “Hexagons,” Asimov’s, July.
———, “Like Minds,” F&SF, October/November.
———, “Like Need, Deserve,” SCI FICTION, 8/27.
———, “Rejection,” Asimov’s, January.
Jessica Reisman, “Threads,” SCI FICTION, 8/13.
Mike Resnick, “Here’s Looking At You, Kid,” Asimov’s, April.
———, “Robots Don’t Cry,” Asimov’s, July.
———, “Society’s Goy,” Stars.
——— and Kay Kenyon, “Dobcheck, Lost in the Funhouse,” Live Without a Net.
Mark Rich, “Too Celestial Cave,” Talebones 26.
M. Rickert, “The Chambered Fruit,” F&SF, August.
———, “Peace on Suburbia,” F&SF, December.
———, “The Super Hero Saves the World,” F&SF, June.
Chris Roberson, “O one,” Live Without a Net.
Frank M. Robinson, “Love Story,” Men Writing Science Fiction as Women.
Spider Robinson, “You Don’t Know My Heart,” Stars.
Adam Roberts, “New Model Computer,” Live Without a Net.
Andy Robertson, “Eater,” The Night Lands, Vol. 1.
Warren Rochelle, “The Golden Boy,” The Silver Gryphon.
Dianna Rodgers, “Dreaming For Hire, By Appointment Only,” Polyphony 2.
Benjamin Rosenbaum, “The Death Trap of Dr. Nefario,” Infinite Matrix, 3/25.
Mary Rosenblum, “Golden Bird,” Asimov’s, January.
Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling, “Junk DNA,” Asimov’s, January.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch, “Cowboy Grace,” The Silver Gryphon.
———, “Homecoming,” Women Writing Science Fiction As Men.
———, “Nutball Season,” SCI FICTION, ———, “Play Like a Girl,” Stars.
———, “Sparks in a Cold War,” Future Wars.
Richard Paul Russo, “Tropical Nights at the Natatorium,” The Silver Gryphon, September.
James Sallis, “Free Time,” Album Zutique #1.
Patrick Samphire, “Finisterre,” The Third Alternative, Spring.
William Sanders, “Dry Bones,” Asimov’s, May.
Melissa Scott, “The Sweet Not-Yet,” Imagination Fully Dilated.
Nisi Shawl, “Momi Watu,” Strange Horizons, 8/18.
———, “The Tawny Bitch,” Mojo: Conjure Stories.
Robert Sheckley, “Hunger,” Stars.
———, “Legend of Conquistadors,” F&SF, April.
———, “The Refuge Elsewhere,” F&SF, May.
Charles Sheffield, “The Waste Land,” Asimov’s, March.
Jim Shepard, “Tedford and the Megalodon,” McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales.
Lucius Shepard, “A Walk in the Garden,” SCI FICTION, 8/20.
———, “After Ildiko,” The Silver Gryphon.
———, “Ariel,” Asimov’s, October/November.
———, “Floater,” PS Publishing.
———, “Jailwise,” SCI FICTION, 6/4.
———, “Liar’s House,” SCI FICTION, 12/1.
———, “Limbo,” The Dark.
———, “Only Partly Here,” Asimov’s, March.
———, “The Park Sweeper,” The Third Alternative,
———, “The Same Old Story,” Polyphony 2.
———, “Senor Volto,” SCI FICTION, 2/12.
Gary W. Shockley, “The Lightning Bug Wars,” F&SF, April.
William Shunn, “The Day Pietro Coppino Spoke to the Mountain,” Realms of Fantasy, October.
———, “The Diagnostic Feast,” Beyond the Last Star.
———, “Divided By Time,” Realms of Fantasy, December.
———, “Love in the Age of Spyware,” Salon, July 16.
———, “Mrs. Janokowski Hits One Out of the Park,” Electric Velocipede, Spring.
Vandana Singh, “The Wife,” Polyphony 3.
Robert Silverberg, “The Book of Changes,” Legends II.
———, “The Reign of Terror,” Asimov’s, April.
Alison Sinclair, “Suspended Lives,” Space Inc.
Dean Wesley Smith, “Shadow in the City,” Stars.
Brian Stableford, “Art in the Blood,” Shadows Over Baker Street.
Allen M. Steele, “Benjamin the Unbeliever,” Asimov’s, August.
———, “The Madwomen of Shuttlefield,” Asimov’s, May.
Bruce Sterling & Howard Waldrop, “The Latter Days of the Law,” Custer’s Last Jump. Del Stone, Jr
., “I Feed the Machine,” Live Without a Net. Charles Stross, “Curator,” Asimov’s, December.
———, “Nightfall,” Asimov’s, April.
Tim Sullivan, “The Mouth of Hell,” Asimov’s, August.
Lucy Sussex, “Runaway,” Agog! Terrific Tales.
Michael Swanwick, “Coyote at the End of History,” Asimov’s, October/November.
———, “Crown of Beauty,” SCI FICTION, 1/23.
———, “The Dark Lady of the Equations,” SCI FICTION, 6/20.
———, “The Dark Night of the Soul,” Infinite Matrix, 9/19.
———, “Deep in the Woods of Grammarie,” Realms of Fantasy, October.
———, “Don’t Look to the Skies!,” SCI FICTION, 1/9.
———, “Forge Star,” SCI FICTION, 4/18.
———, “The Ghost of Pierre Curie Reminisces,” SCI FICTION, 4/4.
———, “Grace at the Gallows,” Infinite Matrix, 2/13.
———, “The Great Wheel of the World,” Infinite Matrix, 6/26.
———, “Island of Stability,” SCI FICTION, 10/10.
———, “Legions in Time,” Asimov’s, April.
———, “The Morning After,” Infinite Matrix, 1/30.
———, “Nightmares and Witches,” Infinite Matrix, 2/13.
———, “The Oceans of Neptune,” SCI FICTION, 5/2.
———, “The Parrot with a Golden Beak,” Infinite Matrix, 5/29.
———, “The Pepto-Bismol Hour,” SCI FICTION, 2/21.
———, “Smoke and Mirrors, Parts I-IV,” Live Without a Net.
———, “Pure Science,” SCI FICTION, 5/16.
———, “Spanish Witches,” SCI FICTION, 10/24.
———, “Veterans of Heroic Wars,” Infinite Matrix, 8/28.
———, “Worshiping the Scarecrow,” Infinite Matrix, 5/15.
Judith Tarr, “East of the Sun, West of Acousticville,” Stars.
John Alfred Taylor, “Way Out on the Regolith,” Asimov’s, December.
Eyal Teler, “Possibilities,” F&SF, July.
Mark W. Tiedemann, “The Pilgrim Trade,” Low Port.
———, “Scabbing,” F&SF, April.
Shane Tourtellete, “Extended Family,” New Voices in Science Fiction.
Karen Traviss, “Does He Take Blood?” Realms of Fantasy, August.
———, “The Man Who Did Nothing,” Realms of Fantasy, June.
———, “Strings,” Realms of Fantasy, October.
———, “Suitable for the Orient,” Asimov’s, February.
Harry Turtledove, “Next Year in Jerusalem,” Imaginings.
Mary Turzillo, “Harrowing Hell,” Oceans of the Mind VII.
Steven Utley, “Chaos and the Gods,” Revolution SF, August 7.
———, “Exile,” Asimov’s, August.
James Van Pelt, “Different Worlds,” New Voices in Science Fiction.
———, “Lashawnda at the End,” Imagination Fully Dilated.
———, “Notes from the Field, 3SF, 2.
———, “The Pair-a-Duce Comet Casion All Sol Poker Championships,” Talebones 26.
———, “Small Town News,” Weird Tales, Winter.
Rajnar Vajra, “Afterburn,” Analog, January.
John Varley, “In Fading Suns and Dying Moons,” Stars.
Edd Vick, “First Principles,” Asimov’s, September.
Vernor Vinge, “The Cookie Monster,” Analog, October.
Ray Vukcevich, “Fired,” Imagination Fully Dilated.
———, “Jumping,” Witpunk.
Howard Waldrop, “A Better World’s in Birth!,” Golden Gryphon Press.
———, “D=RxT,” SCI FICTION, 10/22.
———, “Why Then Ile Fit You,” The Silver Gryphon.
Nicholas Waller, “The Ancient,” Jupiter II: Europa, Autumn.
———, “Sandtrap,” Interzone, March.
Ian Watson, “The Butterflies of Memory,” The Third Alternative, Summer.
———, “Separate Lives,” The Silver Gryphon.
Don Webb, “Doc Hawthorne’s Beautiful Daughter,” Polyphony 3.
K. D. Wentworth, “In Sweet Jerusalem,” Oceans of the Mind VII.
Scott Westerfeld, “That Which Does Not Kill Us,” Agog! Terrific Tales.
———, “Unsportsmanlike Conduct,” SCI FICTION, 4/19.
Robert Freeman Wexler, “In Springdale Town,” PS Publishing.
Leslie What, “Death Penalty,” SCI FICTION, 2/19.
———, “Is That Hard Science, or Are You Just Happy to See Me?” Witpunk.
———, “Threesome,” Imagination Fully Dilated.
Lori Ann White, “Heart of Glass,” Polyphony 3.
——— & Ken Wharton, “Mixed Signals,” Analog, January.
Liz Williams, “Dancing Day,” Realms of Fantasy, December.
———, “Nine of Lamentations,” 3SF, 3.
———, “Tycho and the Stargazer,” Asimov’s, December.
Tad Williams, “The Scent of Trumpets, the Voices of Smoke,” Stars.
Walter Jon Williams, “Margaux,” Asimov’s, May.
Jack Williamson, “The Man From Somewhere,” Asimov’s, October/November.
Connie Willis, “Just Like the Ones We Used to Know,” Asimov’s, December.
Chris Willrich, “Count to One,” Asimov’s, May.
Gene Wolfe, “Castaway,” SCI FICTION, 2/5.
———, “The Graylord Man’s Last Words,” Asimov’s, May.
———, “Hunter Lake,” F&SF, October/November.
———, “Of Soil & Climate,” Realms of Fantasy, December.
John C. Wright, “The Last of All Suns,” The Night Lands (website).
Pat York, “Home on the Range,” Analog, July/August.
Jane Yolen, “Ride Me Like a Wave,” Stars.
Melissa Yuan-Innes, “Waiting for Jenny Rex,” Full Unit Hookup, Spring.
George Zebrowski, “Takes You Back,” The Silver Gryphon.
Sarah Zettel, “Insider,” Imaginings.
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Acknowledgments
The editor would like to thank the following people for their help and support: Susan Casper, Ellen Datlow, Gordon Van Gelder, Peter Crowther, David Pringle, Marty Halpern, Lou Anders, Eileen Gunn, Nisi Shawl, Mike Resnick, Janis Ian, Susan Marie Groppi, Karen Meisner, Jed Hartman, Richard Freeburn, Patrick Swenson, Sheila Williams, Brian Bieniowski, Trevor Quachri, Jayme Lynn Blascke, Andy Cox, David Hartwell, Warren Lapin, Darrell Schweitzer, Roelf Goudriaan, John O’Neill, Kelly Link, Gavin Grant, Christopher Rowe, Alan DeNiro, Gwenda Bond, Jeff VanderMeer, Chris Lawson, Ian Randal Strock, Gordon Lilnzer, Gerard Houarner, Karl Johanson, Kristin Livdahl, Orson Scott Card, Keith Olexa, Christian O’ Toole, David Lee Summers, Diane L. Walton, Keith Stevenson, Ian Red man, Monissa Whiteley, Mark Rudolph, Liz Holliday, Michael J. Jasper, Linn Prentis, Vaughne Lee Hansen, Shawna McCarthy, Mark R. Kelly, Jonathan Strahan, Jennifer A. Hall, Mark Watson, Michael Swanwick, and special thanks to my own editor, Marc Resnick.
Thanks are also due to Charles N. Brown, whose magazine Locus (Locus Publications, P.O. Box 13305, Oakland, CA 94661. $52 for a one-year/twelve-issue subscription via second class; credit card orders (510) 339 9198) was used as an invaluable reference source throughout the Summation; Locus Online (www.locusmag.com), edited by Mark R. Kelly, has also become a key reference source. Thanks are also due to John Douglas and Warren Lapine of Science Fiction Chronicle (DNA Publications, Inc., P.O. box 2988, Radford, VA 24143-2988. $45 for a one year/twelve-issue subscription via second class) which was also used as a reference source throughout.
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