Margaret Ronald, “Knight of Coins,” JBU, April.
———, “When the Gentlemen Go By,” Clarkesworld, July.
Benjamin Rosenbaum and Cory Doctorow, “True Names,” Fast Forward II.
Mary Rosenblum, “Horse Racing,” Asimov’s, September.
———, “Sacrifice,” Sideways in Crime.
Josh Rountree, “No Leaving New Orleans,” Lone Star Stories, June.
Christopher Rowe, “Gather,” Del Rey Book of SF.
Rudy Rucker, “The Imitation Game,” Interzone, April.
———and Marc Laidlaw, “The Perfect Wave,” Asimov’s, January.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch, “Dragon’s Tooth,” JBU, August.
———, “The Observer,” Front Lines.
———, “The Power of Human Reason,” Future Americas.
———, “The Room of Lost Souls,” Asimov’s, April/May.
———, “SeniorSource,” Fast Forward II.
Geoff Ryman, “The Film-Makers of Mars,” Tor.com.
———, “No Bad Thing,” The West Pier Gazette.
———, “Talk Is Cheap,” Interzone 216.
Brandon Sanderson, “Defending Elysium,” Asimov’s, October/November.
Jason Sanford, “The Ships like Clouds, Risen by Their Rain,” Interzone 217.
———, “When Thorns Are the Tips of Trees,” Interzone 219.
———, “Where Away You Fall,” Analog, December.
Erica L. Satifka, “Sea Change,” Ideomancer, September.
John Scalzi, “After the Coup,” Tor.com.
Ken Scholes, “The God-Voices of Settler’s Rest,” OSC’sIGMShow, July.
———, “Invisible Empire of Ascending Light,” Eclipse Two.
Karl Schroeder, “Book, Theatre, and Wheel,” Solaris Book of SF II.
———and Tobias S. Bucknell, “Mitigation,” Fast Forward II.
Ekaterina Sedia, “By the Liter,” Subterranean, Spring.
———, “There Is a Monster Under Helen’s Bed,” Clockwork Phoenix.
Gord Sellar, “Country of the Young,” Interzone 219.
———, “Dhuluma No More,” Asimov’s, October/November.
———, “Pahwakhe,” Fantasy, January 21.
Delia Sherman, “Gift from a Spring,” Realms of Fantasy, April.
Sharon Shinn, “The Unrhymed Couplets of the Universe,” OSC’sIGMShow, January.
William Shunn, “Timesink,” Electric Velocipede, 15/16.
Steven H. Silver, “Les Lettres de Paston,” Helix 10.
Janna Silverstein, “After This Life,” OSC’sIGMShow, January.
Vandana Singh, “Distances,” Aqueduct Press.
———, “Oblivion: A Journey,” Clockwork Phoenix.
Sarah Singleton, “They Left the City at Night,” Subterfuge.
Amber D. Sistla, “A Place to Call Home,” Cosmos, April/May.
Jack Skillingstead, “Alone with an Inconvenient Companion,” Fast Forward II.
———, “Cat in the Rain,” Asimov’s, October/November.
———, “What You Are About to See,” Asimov’s, August.
Alan Smale, “Quartet, with Mermaids,” Abyss & Apex, 1st Quarter.
Jeremy Adam Smith, “The Wreck of the Grampus,” Lone Star Stories, April.
S. P Somtow, “An Alien Heresy,” Asimov’s, April/May.
Bud Sparhawk, “Pumpkin,” JBU, December.
———, “The Super,” JBU, August.
Cat Sparks, “Palisade,” Clockwork Phoenix.
Wen Spencer, “Being Human,” Transhuman.
William Browning Spencer, “Penguins of the Apocalypse,” Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy.
Kari Sperring, “Seaborne,” Myth-Understandings.
Jeff Spock, “Everything That Matters,” Interzone 219.
Nancy Springer, “Rumple What?” F&SF, March.
Brian Stableford, “The Best of Both Worlds,” Postscripts 15.
———, “Following the Pharmers,” Asimov’s, March.
———, “The Great Chain of Being,” Future Americas.
———, “Next to Godliness,” Celebrations.
———, “The Philosopher’s Stone,” Asimov’s, July.
Vaughan Stanger, “Stars in Her Eyes,” Postscripts 17.
Bruce Sterling, “Computer Entertainment Thirty-five Years from Today,” Flurb 6.
S. M. Stirling, “A Murder in Oddsford,” Sideways in Crime.
Jason Stoddard, “The Elephant Ironclads,” Del Rey Book of SF.
———, “Far Horizons,” Interzone, February.
———, “The First Editions,” F&SF, April
———, “Willpower,” Futurismic, 01/12.
Eric James Stone, “Premature Emergence,” JBU, February.
Dick Strasser, “Conquest,” Dreaming Again.
Charles Stross, “Down on the Farm,” Tor.com.
Tim Sullivan, “Planetesimal Dawn,” F&SF, October/November.
———, “Way Down East,” Asimov’s, December.
Tricia Sullivan, “The Dog Hypnotist,” Celebrations.
———, “The Ecologist and the Avon Lady,” Myth-Understandings.
———, “Post-Ironic Stress Syndrome,” The Starry Rift.
Lucy Sussex, “Ardant Clouds,” Del Rey Book of SF.
Michael Swanwick, “The Scarecrow’s Boy,” F&SF, October/November.
———and Eileen Gunn, “Shed That Guilt! Double Your Productivity Overnight!” F&SF, September.
Rachel Swirsky, “Marrying the Sun,” Fantasy, June 30.
Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem, “In Concert,” Asimov’s, December.
Lavie Tidhar, “Hard Rain at the Fortean Café,” Aeon 14.
———, “The Secret Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” The West Pier Gazette.
———, “Shira,” Del Rey Book of SF.
———, “Uganda,” Flurb 5.
Sarah Totten, “The Stone Man,” Andromedea Spaceways 37.
George Tucker, “Circle,” F&SF, May.
Lisa Tuttle, “The Oval Portrait,” Postscripts 16.
Steven Utley, “All of Creation,” Cosmos Online.
———, “The 400-Million-Year Itch,” F&SF, April.
———, “Perfect Everything,” Asimov’s, December.
———, “Sleepless Years,” F&SF, October/November.
———, “Slug Hell,” Asimov’s, September
———, “Variant,” Postscripts 15.
———, “The Woman Under the World,” Asimov’s, July.
———, “The World Within the World,” Asimov’s, March.
Catherynne M. Valente, “A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antartica,” Clarkesworld, May.
Jeff VanderMeer, “Fixing Hanover,” Extraordinary Engines.
———, “Island Tales,” Postscripts 14.
———, “The Situation,” PS Publishing.
Mark L. Van Name, “Reunion,” Transhuman.
James Van Pelt, “Floaters,” Talebones, Winter.
———, “Rock House,” Talebones, Spring.
Carrie Vaughn, “A Letter to Nancy,” Realms of Fantasy, August.
———, “The Nymph’s Child,” Fast Ships, Black Sails.
Howard Waldrop, “Avast, Abaft!” Fast Ships, Black Sails.
George S. Walker, “The Einstein-Rosen Hunter-Gatherer Society,” Helix 10.
Peter Watts, “The Eyes of God,” Solaris Book of SF II.
Janeen Webb, “Paradise Designed,” Dreaming Again.
Catharine Wells, “Ghost Town,” Asimov’s, April/May.
Scott Westerfeld, “Ass-Hat Magic Spider,” The Starry Rift.
Leslie What, “Money Is No Object,” Asimov’s, October/November.
Wayne Wightman, “A Foreign Country,” F&SF, December.
Kate Wilhelm, “The Fountain of Neptune,” F&SF, April.
———, “Strangers When We Meet,” Asi
mov’s, April/May.
Liz Williams, “At Shadow Cope,” Celebrations.
———, “Queen of the Sunlit Shore,” Myth-Understandings.
———, “Spider horse,” Realms of Fantasy, August.
———, “Who Pays,” The West Pier Gazette.
Walter Jon Williams, “Pinochio,” The Starry Rift.
Chris Willrich, “The Sword of Loving Kindness,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 1–2.
Eric Witchery, “Can You See Me Now?” Clarkesworld 24.
Nick Wolven, “An Art, like Everything Else,” Asimov’s, April/May.
John C. Wright, “Chosers of the Slain,” Clockwork Phoenix.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, “Endra—from Memory,” Interzone 216.
Marly Youmans, “Rain Flower Pebbles,” Postscripts 17.
Table of Contents
THE YEAR’S BEST
acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following materials:
contents
acknowledgments
summation: 2008
Turing’s Apples
From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled
The Gambler
Boojum
The Six Directions of Space
N-Words
An Eligible Boy
Shining Armour
The Hero
Evil Robot Monkey
Five Thrillers
THE ILL-FATED MISSION
TO BE TRULY HUMAN IS TO BE DIFFERENT.
NATURAL KILLER
THE TICKING BOMB
THE ASSASSIN
WORLD’S END
The Sky That Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black
Incomers
Crystal Nights
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
The Egg Man
His Master’s Voice
The Political Prisoner
Balancing Accounts
Special Economics
Days of Wonder
City of the Dead
The Voyage Out
II
III
IV
V
VI
The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm
G-Men
The Erdmann Nexus
ONE
TWO
THREE
FOUR
FIVE
SIX
SEVEN
EIGHT
NINE
TEN
ELEVEN
TWELVE
THIRTEEN
FOURTEEN
FIFTEEN
Old Friends
The Ray-Gun: A Love Story
Lester Young and the Jupiter’s Moons’ Blues
Butterfly, Falling at Dawn
The Tear
PTEY, SAILING
TORBEN, MELTING
JEDDEN, RUNNING
FAST MAN, SLOWLY
OGA, TEARING
OGA, RETURNING
honorable mentions: 2008
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