Pat MacEwan, “Home Sweet Bi’ome,” F&SF, January/February.
Ken MacLeod, “The Best Science Fiction of the Year Three,” Solaris Rising.
_____, “The Surface of Last Scattering,” TRSF.
Ian R. MacLeod, “The Crane Method,” Subterranean, Spring.
Emily Mah, “The River People,” Black Gate, Spring.
Geoffrey Maloney, “Mr. Morrow Becomes Acquainted with the Delicate Art of Squid Keeping,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March.
Daniel Marcus, “Bright Moment,” F&SF, September/October.
Bruce McAllister, “The Messenger,” Asimov’s, July.
Tim McDaniel, “Brother Sleep,” Asimov’s, February.
Ian McDonald, “A Smart Well-Mannered Uprising of the Dead,” Solaris Rising.
Ian McHugh, “Boumee and the Apes,” Analog, May.
_____, “The Godbreaker of Seggau-Li,” Andromeda Spaceways 50.
_____, “Interloper,” Asimov’s, January.
Maureen McHugh, “The Effects of Centrifugal Forces,” After the Apocalypse.
Sean McMullen, “Enigma,” Analog, January/February.
Greg Mellor, “Day Break,” Cosmos, April/May.
Erick Melton, “Shadow Angel,” Asimov’s, September.
China Mieville, “Covehithe,” The Guardian, April 22.
Eugene Mirabelli, “The Pastry Chef, the Nanotechnologist, the Aerobics Instructor, and the Plumber,” Asimov’s, October/November.
Judith Moffett, “The Middle of Somewhere,” Welcome to the Greenhouse.
Sarah Monette, “The Devil in Gaylord’s Creek,” Fantasy, May.
R. Neube, “Grandma Said,” Asimov’s, September.
Alec Nevala-Lee, “Kawataro,” Analog, June.
Larry Niven, “The Artists,” Subterranean, Winter.
Garth Nix, “The Curious Case of the Mondawn Daffodils Murder as Experienced by Sir Magnus Holmes and Almost-Doctor Susan Shirke,” Ghosts by Gaslight.
Rick Norwood, “Long Time,” F&SF, January/February.
Naomi Novik, “Priced to Sell,” Naked City.
Nnedi Okorafor, “The Book of Phoenix (Excerpted from The Great Book),” Clarkesworld, March.
An Owomoyele, “All That Touches the Air,” Lightspeed, April.
_____, “Frozen Voice,” Clarkesworld, July
_____, “God in the Sky,” Asimov’s, March.
Stephen Palmer, “Eluna,” Solaris Rising.
Suzanne Palmer, “The Ceiling Is Sky,” Interzone 234.
Paul Park, “Mysteries of the Old Quarter,” Ghosts by Gaslight.
K. J. Parker, “A Room with a View,” Subterranean Dark Fantasy 2.
_____, “A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong,” Subterranean, Winter.
Richard Parks, “The Ghost of Shinoda Forest,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies, February.
_____, “The Swan Troika,” Realms of Fantasy, February.
_____, “The Tiger’s Turn,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies, October.
Norman Partridge, “Vampire Lake,” Subterreanean Dark Fantasy 2.
Lawrence Person, “The Dog Parade,” Postscripts 24/25.
Tony Pi, “We Who Steal Faces,” OSCIMS, April.
Steven Popkes, “Agent of Change,” F&SF, May/June.
Tim Pratt, “Antiquities and Tangibles,” Subterranean, Fall.
_____, “The Secret Beach,” Fantasy, October.
William Preston, “Clockworks,” Asimov’s, April/May.
Hannu Rajaniemi, “The Server and the Dragon,” Engineering Infinity.
Cat Rambo, “Bots D’Amor,” Abyss & Apex, 2nd Quarter.
_____, “The Immortality Game,” Fantasy, June.
_____, “Karaluvian Fale,” GigaNotoSaurus, February.
_____, “Long Enough and Just So Long,” Lightspeed, February.
_____, “Whose Face This Is I Don’t Know,” Clarkesworld, May.
Kit Reed, “The Outside Event,” Asimov’s, October/November.
Robert Reed, “Euphoria,” Postscripts 24/25.
_____, “Mantis,” Engineering Infinity.
_____, “Our Candidate,” Tor.com.
_____, “Pack,” Clarkesworld, September.
_____, “Purple,” Asimov’s, March.
_____, “Stalker,” Asimov’s, September.
_____, “Swingers,” Tor.com, August 24.
_____, “Woman Leaves Room,” Lightspeed, March.
Mike Resnick, “The Homecoming,” Asimov’s, April/May.
_____, “Shaka II,” Subterranean, Fall.
_____& Laurie Tom, “Mooncakes,” Solaris Rising.
Alastair Reynolds, “For the Ages,” Solaris Rising.
_____, “The Old Man and the Martian Sea,” Life on Mars.
M. Rickert, “The Corpse Painter’s Masterpiece,” F&SF, September/October.
Kate Riedel, “The Man Who Loved His Work,” On Spec, Winter.
Mecurio D. Rivera, “For Love’s Delirium Haunts the Fractured Mind,” Interzone 235.
_____, “Tethered,” Interzone 236.
Chris Roberson, “LARP on Mars,” Life on Mars.
Adam Roberts, “Shall I Tell You the Problem with Time Travel?” Solaris Rising.
_____, “Thrownness,” Postscripts 24/25.
John Maddox Roberts, “Beware the Snake,” Down These Strange Streets.
Rudy Rucker & Paul Di Filippo, “To See Infinity Bare,” Postscripts 24/25.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch, “Becalmed,” Asimov’s, April/May.
_____, “Dunyon,” Asimov’s, July.
_____, “The Impossibles,” Analogy, December.
_____, “Killer Advice,” Asimov’s, January.
_____, “Show Trial,” Subterranean, Spring.
_____, “Stealth,” Asimov’s, October/November.
_____, “Unnatural Disaster,” Fantasy, November.
_____, “Watching the Music Dance,” Engineering Infinity.
Alan Peter Ryan, “Time and Tide,” F&SF, September/October.
Gavin Salisbury, “Junction 5,” Panverse Three.
Jason Sanford, “Her Scientifiction, Far Future, Medieval Fantasy,” Interzone 234.
_____, “The Ever-Dreaming Verdict of Plagues,” Interzone 236.
Pamela Sargent, “Strawberry Birdies,” Asimov’s, December.
Steven Saylor, “Styx and Stones,” Down These Strange Streets.
_____, “The Witch of Corinth,” F&SF, July/August.
Ken Scholes, “Making My Entrance Again with My Usual Flair,” Tor.com.
Carter Scholz, “Signs of Life,” F&SF, May/June.
Gord Sellar, “Trois Morceaux En Forme de Mechanika,” Clarkesworld, July.
Priya Sharma, “Lebkuchen,” Fantasy, January.
Nisi Shawl, “Pataki,” Strange Horizons, April.
Lucius Shepard, “Rose Street Attractors,” Ghosts by Gaslight.
_____, “The Skinny Girl,” Naked City.
Lewis Shiner, “A Box of Thunder,” Strange Horizons, 9/19.
Felicity Shoulders, “Apocalypse Daily,” Asimov’s, June.
William Shunn, “Care and Feeding of Your Piano,” Electric Velocipede 21/22.
Robert Silverberg, “The End of the Line,” Asimov’s, August.
_____, “Smithers and the Ghosts of the Thar,” Ghosts by Gaslight.
_____, “The Tomb of the Pontifex Dvorn,” Subterranean, Winter.
Vandana Singh, “Indra’s Web,” TRSF.
Jack Skillingstead, “The Flow and the Dream,” Asimov’s, April/May.
_____, “Free Dog,” Asimov’s, October/November.
_____, “Steel Lake,” Solaris Rising.
Alan Smale, “Leap of Faith,” Realms of Fantasy, August.
Jeremy Adam Smith, “Frightened Angels,” Postscripts 24/25.
Matthew Sanborn Smith, “Beauty Belongs to the Flowers,” Tor.com.
Melinda M. Snodgrass, “No Mystery, No Miracle,” Down These Strange Streets.
William Browning Spencer, “The Dappled Thing,” Subterranean
Dark Fantasy 2.
Norman Spinrad, “The Music of the Sphere,” Asimov’s, July.
Allen M. Steele, “Angel of Europa,” Subterranean Press.
_____, “The Observation Post,” Asimov’s, September.
Ferrett Steinmetz, “‘Run,’ Bakri Says,” Asimov’s, December.
Bruce Sterling, “The Master of the Aviary,” Welcome to the Greenhouse.
_____, “The Parthenopean Scaple,” Subterranean Dark Fantasy 2.
James Stoddard, “The Ifs of Time,” F&SF, March/April.
_____, “Orion Rising,” Panverse Three.
Charles Stross, “A Bird in the Hand,” Fables from the Fountain.
_____, “Bit Rot,” Engineering Infinity.
Tim Sullivan, “Under Glass,” F&SF, November/December.
Michael Swanwick, “An Empty House with Many Doors,” Asimov’s, April/May.
_____, “The Man in Grey,” Eclipse Four.
Rachel Swirsky, “Fields of Gold,” Eclipse Four.
_____, “The Taste of Promises,” Life on Mars.
Melanie Tem, “Little Shit,” Supernatural Noir.
Steve Rasnic Tem, “At Play in the Fields,” Solaris Rising.
_____, “Ephemera,” Asimov’s, December.
_____, “Visitors,” Asimov’s, January.
Lavie Tidhar, “The Ambiguity Clock,” Daily SF, April 22.
_____, “The Hubbard Continuum,” Redstone SF, March.
_____, “In the Season of the Mango Rains,” Interzone 234.
_____, “Jesus and the Eightfold Path,” Immersion Press.
_____, “The Last Osama,” Interzone 237.
_____, “The Lives and Deaths of Che Guevara,” Solaris Rising.
_____, “Passage,” Daily SF, August 24.
_____, “The Projected Girl,” Naked City.
_____, “Red Dawn: A Chow Mein Western,” Fantasy, November.
_____, “The River Came,” End of an Aeon.
Jeremiah Tolbert, “You Have Been Turned into a Zombie by a Friend,” Fantasy, June.
Harry Turtledove, “Lee at the Alamo,” Tor.com, September 7.
_____, “Shtetl Days,” Tor.com, April 14.
Lisa Tuttle, “The Curious Affair of the Deodand,” Down These Strange Streets.
Catherynne M. Valente, “The Bread We Eat in Dreams,” Apex Magazine, November.
_____, “The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland—For a Little While,” Tor.com, July 27.
_____, “White Lines on a Green Field,” Subterranean, Fall.
Genevieve Valentine, “Carte Blanche,” Electric Velocipede 21/22.
_____, “Demons, Your Body, and You,” Subterranean, Summer.
_____, “Galatea,” Lightspeed, August.
_____, “The Sandal-Bride,” Fantasy, March.
_____, “Semiramis,” Clarkesworld, June.
_____, “Souvenir,” Strange Horizons, 8/15.
Carrie Vaughn, “It’s Still the Same Old Story,” Down These Strange Streets.
Juliette Wade, “At Cross Purposes,” Analog, January/February.
Alan Wall, “Burning Bibles,” Asimov’s, September.
Kali Wallace, “Botanical Exercises for Curious Girls,” F&SF, March/April.
Jo Walton, “The Panda Coin,” Eclipse Four.
Ian Watson, “How We Came Back from Mars,” Solaris Rising.
Peter Watts, “Malek (or, It’s Not Easy Being Green),” Engineering Infinity.
Don Webb, “Fine Green Dust,” F&SF, May/June.
Kate Wilhelm, “The Birdcage,” F&SF, January/February.
_____, “Music Makers,” F&SF, May/June.
Connie Willis, “All About Emily,” Asimov’s, December.
Chris Willrich, “The Lions of Karthagar,” Black Gate, Spring.
Gene Wolfe, “Why I Was Hanged,” Ghosts by Gaslight.
Nick Wolven, “Lost in the Memory Palace,” Asimov’s, March.
John C. Wright, “Judgement Eve,” Engineering Infinity.
Rio Youers, “The Ghost of Lillian Bliss,” Postscripts 24/25.
Jim Young, “The Whirlwind,” F&SF, January/February.
E. Lily Yu, “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees,” Clarkesworld, April.
Acknowledgments
The editor would like to thank the following people for their help and support: Susan Casper, Jonathan Strahan, Gordon Van Gelder, Ellen Datlow, Sean Wallace, Sheila Williams, Trevor Quachri, Peter Crowther, Nicolas Gevers, William Shaffer, Ian Whates, Andy Cox, Paula Guran, Dario Ciriello, Carl Rafala, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Torie Atkinson, Eric T. Reynolds, George Mann, Jennifer Brehl, Stephen Cass, Mark Pontin, Lee Harris, Peter Tennant, Susan Marie Groppi, Karen Meisner, John Joseph Adams, Wendy S. Delmater, Jed Hartman, Rich Horton, Mark R. Kelly, John Jarrold, Otto Penzler, L. Timmel Duchamp, Andrew Wilson, Damien Broderick, Lou Anders, Patrick Swenson, Robert T. Wexler, Michael Swanwick, Jay Lake, Lavie Tidhar, Stephen Baxter, Ian R. MacLeod, Yoon Ha Lee, David Moles, Alec Nevala-Lee, Michael Flynn, Chris Lawson, Connor Cochran, Peter M. Ball, Paul Cornell, Tobias S. Buckell, David Klecha, Carolyn Ives Gilman, Tom Purdom, Dave Hutchinson, Pat Cadigan, Catherynne M. Valente, Karl Schroeder, Kij Johnson, Geoff Ryman, Paul McAuley, Jim Hawkins, Alastair Reynolds, Robert Reed, Maureen McHugh, Ken Liu, Eric Brown, Keith Brooke, Matt Hughes, Michael Smith, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Marty Halpern, Jo Walton, Hannu Rajaniemi, Daniel Marcus, Mary Robinette Kowal, Nancy Kress, Karl Bunker, Linn Prentis, Liz Gorinsky, Mike Resnick, Ian Tregillis, David Hartwell, Ginjer Buchanan, Susan Allison, Shawna McCarthy, Kelly Link, Gavin Grant, John Klima, John O’Neill, Charles Tan, Rodger Turner, Tyree Campbell, Stuart Mayne, John Kenny, Edmund Schubert, Tehani Wessely, Tehani Croft, Karl Johanson, Sally Beasley, Tony Lee, Joe Vas, John Pickrell, Ian Redman, Anne Zanoni, Kaolin Fire, Ralph Benko, Paul Graham Raven, Nick Wood, Mike Allen, Jason Sizemore, Sue Miller, David Lee Summers, Christopher M. Cevasco, Tyree Campbell, Andrew Hook, Vaughne Lee Hansen, Mark Watson, Sarah Lumnah, Sarah Johnson, and special thanks to my own editor, Marc Resnick.
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