Year's best SF

[1] Think like a dinosaur / James Patrick Kelly --

Wonders of the invisible world / Patricia A. McKillip --

Hot times in Magma City / Robert Silverberg --

Gossamer / Stephen Baxter --

Worm in the well / Gregory Benford --

Downloading midnight / William Browning Spencer --

For White Hill / Joe Hadleman --

In Saturn time / William Barton --

Coming of age in Karhide / Ursula K. Le Guin --

Three descents of Jeremy Baker / Roger Zelazny --

Evolution / Nancy Kress --

Day the aliens came / Robert Sheckley --

Microbe / Joan Slonczewski --

Ziggurat / Gene Wolfe.

[2] After a lean winter / Dave Wolverton --

In the upper room / Terry Bisson --

Thinkertoy / John Brunner --

Zoomers / Gregory Benford --

Out of the mouths / Sheila Finch --

Breakaway, backdown / James patrick Kelly --

Tobacco words / Yves Meynard --

Invasion / Joanna Russ --

House of mourning / Brian Stableford --

Life edit / Damon Knight --

First Tuesday / Robert Reed --

Spear of the sun / David Langford --

Counting cats in Zanzibar / Gene Wolfe --

Bicycle repairman / Bruce Sterling --

Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland / Gwyneth Jones --

Doblin's lecture / Allen Steele --

Bride of Elvis / Kathleen Ann Goonan --

Forget Luck / Kate Wilhelm --

Nonstop to portales / Connie Willis --

Columbiad / Stephen Baxter.

[3] Petting zoo / Gene Wolfe

The wisdom of old earth / Michael Swanwick

The firefly tree / Jack Williamson

Thirteen views of a cardboard city / William Gibson

The nostalginauts / S.N. Dyer

Guest law / John C. Wright

The voice / Gregory Benford

Yeyuka / Greg Egan

An office romance / Terry Bisson

Itsy bitsy spider / James Patrick Kelly

Beauty in the night / Robert Silverberg

Mr. Pale / Ray Bradbury

The pipes of Pan / Brian Stableford

Always true to thee, in my fashion / Nancy Kress

Canary land / Tom Purdom

Universal emulators / Tom Cool

Fair Verona / R. Garcia y Robertson

Great western / Kim Newman

Turnover / Geoffrey A. Landis

The Mendelian lamp case / Paul Levinson

Kiss me / Katherine MacLean

London bone / Michael Moorcock.

[4] Market report / Alexander Jablokov

A dance to strange musics / Gregory Benford

The year of the mouse / Norman Spinrad

The day before they came / Mary Soon Lee

This side of independence / Rob Chilson

The twelfth album / Stephen Baxter

Story of your life / Ted Chiang

Whiptail / Robert Reed

The eye of God / Mary Rosenblum

Rules of engagement / Michael F. Flynn

Radiant doors / Michael Swanwick

Unraveling the thread / Jean-Claude Dunyach

That thing over there / Dominic Green

The allies / Mark S. Geston

My pal Clunky / Ron Goulart

Life in the extreme / David Brin

Near enough to home / Michael Skeet

A game of consequences / David Langford

State of nature / Nancy Kress

Maneki neko / Bruce Sterling.

[5] Everywhere / Geoff Ryman

Evolution never sleeps / Elisabeth Malartre

Sexual Dimorphism / Kim Stanley Robinson

Game of the century / Robert Reed

Secrets of the alien reliquary / Michael Bishop

Kinds of strangers / Sarah Zettel

Visit the sins / Cory Doctorow

Border guards / Greg Egan

Macs / Terry Bisson

Written in blood / Chris Lawson

Has anybody seen Junie Moon? / Gene Wolfe

Blue planet / Robert J. Sawyer

Lifework / Mary Soon Lee

Rosetta Stone / Fred Lerner

Apollo asteroid / Brian Aldiss

100 candles / Curt Wohleber

Democritus' violin / G. David Nordley

Fossil games / Tom Purdom

Valour / Chris Beckett

Huddle / Stephen Baxter

Ashes and tombstones / Brian M. Stableford

Ancient engines / Michael Swanwick

Freckled figure / Hiroe Suga

Shiva / Barry N. Malzberg

Queen of Erewhon / Lucy Sussex.

[6] : Reef / Paul J. McAuley

Reality check / David Brin

The millennium express / Robert Silverberg

Patient zero / Tananarive Due

The oort crowd / Ken MacLeod

The thing about Benny / M. Shayne Bell

The last supper / Brian Stableford

Tuberculosis bacteria join UN / Joan Slonczewski

Our mortal span / Howard Waldrop

Different kinds of darkness / David Langford

New ice age, or just cold feet? / Norman Spinrad

The devotee / Stephen Dedman

The marriage of sky and sea / Chris Beckett

In the days of the comet / John M. Ford

The birthday of the world / Ursula K. Le Guin

Oracle / Greg Egan

To cuddle Amy / Nancy Kress

Steppenpferd / Brian W. Aldiss

Sheena 5 / Stephen Baxter

The fire eggs / Darrell Schweitzer

The new horla / Robert Sheckley

Madame Bovary, c'est moi / Dan Simmons

Grandma's jumpman / Robert Reed

Bordeaux mixture / Charles Dexter Ward

The dryad's wedding / Robert Charles Wilson

Built upon the sands of time / Michael F. Flynn

Seventy-two letters / Ted Chiang.

7. Computer virus / Nancy Kress

Charlie's angels / Terry Bisson

The measure of all things / Richard Chwedyk

Russian vine / Simon Ings

Under's game / Michael Swanwick

A matter of mathematics / Brian W. Aldiss

Creative destruction / Edward M. Lerner

Resurrection / David Morrell

The cat's pajamas / James Morrow

The dog said bow-wow / Michael Swanwick

The building / Ursula K. LeGuin

Gray Earth / Stephen Baxter

The Lagan fishers / Terry Dowling

In Xanadu / Thomas M. Disch

The go-between / Lisa Goldstein

Viewpoint / Gene Wolf

Anomalies / Gregory Benford

Glacial / Alastair Reynolds

Undone / James Patrick Kelly.

8. In paradise / Bruce Sterling --

Slow life / Michael Swanwick --

Knapsack poems / Eleanor Arnason --

At Dorado / Geoffrey A. Landis --

Coelacanths / Robert Reed --

Flight correction / Ken Wharton --

Shoes / Robert Sheckley --

Diamond drill / Charles Sheffield --

Seasons of the Ansarac / Ursula K. Le Guin --

Few kind words for A. E. Van Vogt / Richard Chwedyk --

Halo / Charles Stross --

I saw the light / Terry Bisson --

Slow day at the gallery / A.M. Dellamonica --

Ailoura / Paul Di Filippo --

Names of all the spirits / J.R. Dunn --

Grandma / Carol Emshwiller --

Snow in the desert / Neal Asher --

Singleton / Greg Egan --

Geropods / Robert Onopa --

Afterlife / Jack Williamson --

Shields of Mars / Gene Wolfe --

Patent infringement / Nancy Kress --

Lost sorceress of the silent citadel / Michael Moorcock.

9. Amnesty / Octavia E. Butler

Birth days / Geoff Ryman

Waters of Meribah / Tony Ballantyne

Ej-Es / Nancy Kress

Four short novels / Joe Haldeman

Rogue farm / Charles Stross

Violet's embryos / Angelica Gorodischer

Coyote at the end of history / Michael Swanwick

In fading suns and dying moons / John Varley

Castaway / Gene Wolfe

Hydrogen wall / Gergory Benford

Day we went through the transition / Ricard de la Casa and Pedro Jorge Romero

Nimby and the dimension hoppers / Cory Doctorow

Night of time / Robert Reed

Night on the Barbary Coast / Kage Baker

Annuity clinic / Nigel Brown

Madwoman of Shuttlefield / Allen M. Steele

Bread and bombs / M. Rickert

Great game / Stephen Baxter

Albertine notes / Rick Moody.

10. Sergeant Chip / Bradley Denton

First commandment / Gregory Benford

Burning day / Glenn Grant

Scout's honor / Terry Bisson

Venus flowers at night / Pamela Sargent

Pulp cover / Gene Wolfe

Glinky / Ray Vukcevich

Red city / Janeen Webb

Act of God / Jack McDevitt

Wealth / Robert Reed

Mastermindless / Matthew Hughes

Time, as it evaporates... / Jean-Claude Dunyach

The battle of York / James Stoddard

Loosestrife / Liz Williams

The dark side of town / James Patrick Kelly

Invisible kingdoms / Steven Utley

The cascade / Sean McMullen

Pervert / Charles Coleman Finlay

The risk-taking gene as expressed by some Asian subjects / Steve Tomasula

Strood / Neal Asher

The Eckener alternative James L. Cambias

Savant songs / Brenda Cooper.

11. New hope for the dead / David Langford

Deus ex homine / Hannu Rajaniemi

When the great days came / Gardner R. Dozois

Second person, present tense / Drayl Gregory

Dreadnought / Justina Robson

A case of consilience / Ken MacLeod

Toy planes / Tobias S. Buckell

Mason'ss rats / Neal Asher

A modest proposal / Vonda N. McIntyre

Guadalupe and Hieronymus Bosch

Rudy Rucker

The forever kitten / Peter F. Hamilton

City of reason / Matthew Jarpe

Ivory tower / Bruce Sterling

Sheila / Lauren McLaughlin

Rats of the system / Paul McAuley

I love liver: a romance / Larissa Lai

The edge of nowhere / James Patrick Kelly

What's expected of us / Ted Chiang

Girls and boys, come out to play / Michael Swanwick

Lakes of light / Stephen Baxter

The Albian messsaage / Oliver Morton

Bright red star / Bud Sparhawk

Third day lights / Alaya Dawn Johnson

Ram Shift phase 2 / Greg Bear

On the Brane / Gregory Benford

Oxygen rising / R. Garcia y Robertson

And future king... / Adam Roberts

Beyond the Aquila Rift / Alastair Reynolds

Angel of light / Joe Haldeman

Ikiryoh / Liz Williams

I, robot / Cory Doctorow.

12. Nancy Kress / Nano comes to Clifford Falls

Terry Bisson / Brother, can you spare a dime?

Cory Doctorow / When Sysadmins ruled the earth

Heather Lindsley / Just do it!

Gardner R. Dozois / Counteerfactual

Edd Vick / Moon does run

Mary Rosenblum / Home movies

Rudy Rucker / Chu and the nants

Ian Creasy / Silence in Florence

Kameron Hurley / Women of our occupation

Claude Lalumiere / This is the ice age

Eileen Gunn

Speak, geek

Joe Haldeman / Expedition with recipes

Liz Williams / Age of ice

Michael Flynn / Dawn, and sunset, and the colors of the earth

Gregory Benford / Applied mathematical theology

Carol Emshwiller / Quill

Alastair Reynolds / Tiger, burning

Paul J. McAuley / Dead men walking

Daryl Gregory / Damascus

Michael Swanwick / Tin marsh

Ian R. McLeod / Taking good care of myself

Stephen baxter / Lowland expedition

Wil McCarthy / Heisenberg elementary

Robert Reed / Rwanda

Charlie Rosenkrantz / Preemption.

13. Johanna Sinisalo / Baby Doll

Tony Ballantyne / Aristotle OS

John Kessel / The Last American

Gene Wolfe / Memorare

Kage Baker / Plotters and Shooters

Peter Watts / Repeating the Past

Stephen Baxter / No More Stories

Robyn Hitchcock / They Came from the Future

Gwyneth Jones / The Tomb Wife

Marc Laidlaw / An Evening's Honest Peril

Nancy Kress / End Game

Greg Egan / Induction

Bernhard Ribbeck / A Blue and Cloudless Sky

Gregory Benford / Reasons Not To Publish

William Shunn / Objective Impermeability in a Closed System

Karen Joy Fowler / Always

Ken Macleod / Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?

Tim Pratt / Artifice and Intelligence

Terry Bisson / Pirates of the Somali Coast

Ian McDonald / Sanjeev and Robotwallah

Tony Ballantyne / Third Person

Kathleen Ann Goonan / The Bridge

Joh Hemry/ As You Know, Bob

Bruce Sterling / The Lustration

James Van Pelt / How Music Begins

15. Infinities / Vandana Singh

This Peaceable Land: or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe / Robert Charles Wilson

The Unstrung Zither / Yoon Ha Lee

Black Swan / Bruce Sterling

Exegesis / Nancy Kress

Erosion / Ian Creasey

Collision / Gwyneth Jones

Donovan Sent Us / Gene Wolfe

The Calculus Plague / Marissa K. Lingen

The Island / Peter Watts

One of Our Bastards Is Missing / Paul Cornell

Lady of the White-Spired City / Sarah L. Edwards

The Highway Code / Brian Stableford

On the Destruction of Copenhagen by the War-Machines of the Merfold / Peter M. Ball

The Fixation / Alastair Reynolds

In Their Garden / Brenda Cooper

Blocked / Geoff Ryman

The Last Apostle / Michael Cassutt

Another Life / Charles Oberndorf

The Consciousness Problem / Mary Robinette Kowal

Tempest / Stephen Baxter

Bespoke / Genevieve Valentine

Attitude Adjustment / Eric James Stone

Edison's Frankenstein / Chris Roberson

18. Old paint / Megan Lindholm

The ghosts of Christmas / Paul Cornell

Prayer / Robert Reed

The battle of candle arc / Yoon Ha Lee

Dormanna / Gene Wolfe

Holmes Sherlock: a hwarhath mystery

Eleanor Arnason

Electrica / Sean McMullen

Perfect day / C.S. Friedman

Swift as a dream and fleeting as a sigh / John Barnes

Liberty's daugher / Naomi Kritzer

Weep for day / Indrapramit Das

In plain sight / Pat Cadigan

Application / Lewis Shiner

A love supreme / Kathleen Ann Goonan

Close encounters / Andy Duncan

Two sisters in exile / Aliette de Bodard

Waves / Ken Liu

The north revena ladies literary society / Catherine H. Shaffer

Antarctica starts here / Paul McAuley

Bricks, sticks, straw / Gwyneth Jones

The sigma structure symphony / Gregory Benford

Glass future / Deborah Walker

If only... / Tony Ballantyne

The woman who shook the world tree / Michael Swanwick

Nahiku West / Linda Nagata

Houseoflies / Joe Pitkin

Branches on my back, sparrows in my ear / Nikki J. North

The peak of eternal light / Bruce Sterling.