The year's best science fiction.
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New York : Bluejay Books/St. Martin's, 1984-.
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| Jeffersonville-Western Sullivan Public Library Jeffersonvill - Adult Science Fiction | SF Yea | On Shelf | |
| Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Short Story Anthologies | SS YEAR'S | On Shelf | |
| Valley Cottage Free Library - Adult Fiction | YEARS 2013 | On Shelf | |
| Valley Cottage Free Library - Adult Fiction | YEARS 2015 | On Shelf | |
| 18th 2001 | Monroe Free Library - Adult Fiction | YEAR'S-SHORT STORIES-SCI FI 18th 2001 | On Shelf |
| 11th 1994 | Eldred-Sunshine Hall Free Library - Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy | Year's Best 11th 1994 | On Shelf |
| 1991 | Newburgh Free Library - Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy | SF YEARS 1991 | On Shelf |
| 10th 1993 | Jeffersonville-Western Sullivan Public Library Jeffersonvill - Adult Science Fiction | F Sci-Fi Doz 10th 1993 | On Shelf |
| 13th 1996 | Montgomery Free Library - Adult Science Fiction | YEARS 13th 1996 | On Shelf |
| 2005 | Newburgh Free Library - Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy | SF YEARS 2005 | On Shelf |
| 1987 | Newburgh Free Library - Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy | SF YEARS 1987 | On Shelf |
| 14th 1997 | Tomkins Cove Public Library - Adult Short Story Anthologies | FIC Years 14th 1997 | On Shelf |
| 1989 | Newburgh Free Library - Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy | SF YEARS 1989 | On Shelf |
| 8th 1991 | Montgomery Free Library - Adult Science Fiction | YEARS 8th 1991 | On Shelf |
| 1996 | Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Fiction | YEAR'S 1996 | On Shelf |
| 7th 1990 | Ellenville Public Library and Museum - Adult Fiction | Years 7th 1990 | On Shelf |
| 21st 2004 | Eldred-Sunshine Hall Free Library - Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy | Year's Best 21st 2004 | On Shelf |
| 27TH 2010 | Nyack Library - Adult Fiction | YEARS 27TH 2010 | On Shelf |
| 2008 | Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Fiction | YEAR'S 2008 | On Shelf |
| 25th Annual Collection | West Nyack Free Library - Adult Fiction | Year's 25th Annual Collection | On Shelf |
| 2011 | Cornwall Public Library - Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy | Years Best 2011 | On Shelf |
| 2010 | Cornwall Public Library - Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy | Year's Best 2010 | On Shelf |
| 2010 | Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy | SFF YEAR'S 2010 | On Shelf |
| 2012 | Cornwall Public Library - Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy | Year's Best 2012 | On Shelf |
| 30th 2013 | Jeffersonville-Western Sullivan Public Library Jeffersonvill - Adult Science Fiction | SF Doz 30th 2013 | On Shelf |
| 2013 | Cornwall Public Library - Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy | Year's Best 2013 | On Shelf |
| 2014 | Newburgh Free Library - Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy | SF YEARS 2014 | On Shelf |
| 2018 | Nanuet Public Library - Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy | SF Best 2018 | Checked Out |
| 2009 | Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy | SFF YEAR'S 2009 | On Shelf |
| 2013 30th ed. | Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy | SFF YEAR'S 2013 30th ed. | On Shelf |
| 2015, 32nd ed. | Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy | SFF YEAR'S 2015, 32nd ed. | On Shelf |
| 2017, 34th, ed. | Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy | SFF YEAR'S 2017, 34th, ed. | On Shelf |
| 2018, 35th, ed. | Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy | SFF YEAR'S 2018, 35th, ed. | On Shelf |
| 2000 | Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy | SFF YEAR'S 2000 | On Shelf |
Table of Contents
1st: Cicada queen / Bruce Sterling
Beyond the dead reef / James Tiptree, Jr.
Slow birds / Ian Watson
Vulcan's forge / Poul Anderson
Man-mountain gentian / Howard Waldrop
Hardfought / Greg Bear
Manifest destiny / Joe Haldeman
Full chicken richness / Avram Davidson
Multiples / Robert Silverberg
Cryptic / Jack McDevitt
The sidon in the mirror / Connie Willis
Golden Gate / R. A. Lafferty
Blind shemmy / Jack Dann
In the islands / Pat Murphy
Nunc dimittis / Tanith Lee
Blood music / Greg Bear
Her furry face / Leigh Kennedy
Knight of shallows / Rand B. Lee
The cat / Gene Wolfe
The monkey treatment / George R. R. Martin
Nearly departed / Pat Cadigan
Hearts do not in eyes shine / John Kessel
Carrion comfort / Dan Simmons
Gemstone / Vernor Vinge
Black air / Kim Stanley Robinson.
2nd: Salvador / L. Shepard
Promises to keep / J. Mcdevitt
Bloodchild / O. E. Butler
Blued Moon / C. Willis
Message to the king of Brobdingnag / R. Cowper
The affair / R. Silverberg
Press enter / J Varley
New Rose Hotel / W. Gibson
The map / G. Wolfe
Interlocking pieces / M. Gloss
Trojan horse / M. Swanwick
Bad medicine / J. Dann
At the embassy club / E. A. Lynn
Pursuit of excellence / R. Yount
The kindly isle / F. Pohl
Rock on / P. Cadigan
Sunken gardens / B. Sterling
Trinity / N. Kress
The trouble with the cotton people / U. K. Le Guin
Twilight time / L. Shiner
Black Coral / L. Shepard
Friend / J. P. Kelly
Foreign skins / T. Lee
Company in the wings / R. A. Lafferty
A cabin on the coast / G. Wolfe
The lucky strike / K. S. Robinson.
3rd: Lucius Shepard
The Jaguar Hunter / Michael Swanwick
Dogfight / Frederik Pohl
Fermi and Frost / Bruce Sterling
Green days in Brunei / John Crowley
Snow / Orson Scott Card
The Fringe /Karen Joy Fowler
The Lake was full of artificial things / Robert Silerberg
Sailing to Byzantium /James Patrick Kelly
Slstice / Avram Davidson
Duke Pasquale's Ring / Joe Haldeman
More than the sum of his parts / Nancy Kress
Out of all them bright stars / Walter jon Williams
Side effects / James Tiptree, Jr.
The only neat thing to do / Bruce Sterling
DInner in Audoghast / George R.R. Martin
Under Siege / Howard Waldrop
FLying Saucer Rock & Roll / Lucius Shepard
A Spanish Lesson / Pat Cadigan
Roadside Rescue / James P. BLaylock
Paper Dragons / R. A. Lafferty
Magazine Section / Lewis Shiner
The War at Home / S. C. Sykes
Rockabye Baby / Kim Stanley Robinson
Green Mars /
4th: R & R / Lucius Shepard
Hatrack River / Orson Scott Card
Strangers on paradise / Damon Knight
Pretty boy crossover / Pat Cadigan
Against Babylon / Robert Silverberg
Fiddling for waterbuffaloes / Somtow Sucharitkul
Into gold / Tanith Lee
Sea change / Scott Baker
Covenant of souls / Michael Swanwick
The pure product / John Kessel
Grave angels / Richard Kearns
Tangents / Greg Bear
The beautiful and the sublime / Bruce Sterling
Tattoos / Jack Dann
Night moves / Tim Powers
The prisoner of Chillon / James Patrick Kelly
Chance / Connie Willis
And so to bed / Harry Turtledove
Fair game / Howard Waldrop
Video star / Walter Jon Williams
Sallie C. / Neal Barrett, Jr.
Jeff Beck / Lewis Shiner
Surviving / Judith Moffett
Down and out in the year 2000 / Kim Stanley Robinson
Snake-eyes / Tom Maddox
The gate of ghosts / Karen Joy Fowler
The winter market / William Gibson
5th: Rachel in love / Pat Murphy
Dream baby / Bruce McAllister
Flowers of Edo / Bruce Sterling
Forever yours, Anna / Kate Wilhelm
At the cross-time jaunter's ball / Alexander Jablokov
Dinosaurs / Walter Jon Williams
The temporary king / Paul J. McAuley
Perpetuity blues / Neal Barrett, Jr.
Buffalo galls, won't you come out tonight / Ursula K. Le Guin
The pardoner's tale / Robert Silverberg
Glass cloud / James Patrick Kelly
The evening and the morning and the night / Octavia E. Butler
Night of the cooters / Howard Waldrop
Angel / Pat Cadigan
Shades / Lucius Shepard
The faithful companion at forty / Karen Joy Fowler
Candle in a cosmic wind / Joseph Manzione
The Emir's clock / Ian Watson
Ever after / Susan Palwick
The forest of time / Michael Flynn
The million-dollar wound / Dean Whitlock
The moon of popping trees / R. Garcia y Robertson
Diner / Neal Barrett, Jr.
All the hues of hell / Gene Wolfe
Halley's passing / Michael McDowell
American / Orson Scott Card
For thus do I remember Carthage
Mother goddess of the world / Kim Stanley Robinson.
6th: Surfacing / Walter Jon Williams
Home front / James Patrick Kelly
The man who loved the vampire lady / Brian Stableford
Peaches for mad Molly / Steven Gould
The last article / Harry Turtledove
Stable strategies for middle management / Eileen Gunn
In memoriam / Nancy Kress
Kirinyaga / Mike Resnick
The girl who loved animals / Bruce McAllister
The last of the Winnebagoes / Connie Willis
Love in vain / Lewis Shiner
The hob / Judith Moffett
Our neural Chernobyl / Bruce Sterling
House of bones / Robert Silverberg
Schrodinger's kitten / George Alex Effinger
Do ya, do ya, wanna dance? / Howard Waldrop
The growth of the house of Usher / Brian Stableford
Glacier / Kim Stanley Robinson
Sanctuary / James Lawson
The dragon line / Michael Swanwick
Mrs. Shummel exits a winner / John Kessel
Emissary / Stephen Kraus
It was the heat / Pat Cadigan
Skin deep / Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Dying in Hull / D. Alexander Smith
Distances / Kathe Koja
Famous monsters / Kim Newman
The scalehunter's beautiful daughter / Lucius Shepard.
7th: Tiny tango / Judith Moffett
Out of copyright / Charles Sheffield
For I have touched the sky / Mike Resnick
Alphas / Gregory Benford
At the Rialto / Connie Willis
Skin deep / Kathe Koja
The egg / Steven Popkes
Tales from the Venia Woods / Robert Silverberg
Visiting the dead / William King
Dori Bangs / Bruce Sterling
The ends of the earth / Lucius Shepard
The price of oranges / Nancy Kress
Lottery night / S. P. somtow
A deeper sea / Alexander Jablokov
The edge of the world / Michael Swanwick
Silver lady and the fortyish man / Megan Lindholm
The third sex / Alan Brennert
Winter on the Belle Fourche / Neal Barrett, Jr.
Enter a solder. Later: enter another / Robert Silverberg
Relationships / Robert Sampson
Just another perfect day / John Varley
The Loch Moose monster / Janet Kagan
The magic bullet / Brian Stebleford
The odd old bird / Avram Davidson
Great work of time / John Crowley.
8th: Mr. Boy / James Patrick Kelly
The Shobie's story / Ursula Le Guin
The caress / Greg Egan
A braver thing / Charles Sheffield
We see things differently / Bruce Sterling
And the angels sing / Kate Wilhelm
Past magic / Ian R. MacLeod
Bears discover fire / Terry Bisson
The all-consuming / Lucius Shepard and Robert Frazier
Personal silence / Molly Gloss
Invaders / John Kessel
The Cairene purse / Michael Moorcock
The coon rolled down and ruptured his larinks : a squeezed novel by Mr. Skunk / Dafydd ab Hugh
Tower of Babylon / Ted Chiang
The death artist / Aleaxander Jablokov
The first since ancient Persia / John Brunner
Inertia / Nancy Kress
Learning to be me / Greg Egan
Cibola / Connie Willis
Walking the moons / Jonathan Letham
Rainmaker cometh / Ian McDonald
Hot sky / Robert Silverberg
White city / Lewis Shiner
Love and sex among the invertebrates / Pat Murphy
The Hemingway hoax / Joe Haldeman.
9th: Beggars in Spain / Nancy Kress
Living will / Alexander Jablokov
A just and lasting peace / Lois Tilton
Skinner's Room / William Gibson
Prayers on the wind / Walter Jon Williams
Blood sisters / Greg Egan
The dark / Karen Joy Fowler
Marnie / Ian MacLeod
A tip of a turtle / Robert Silverberg
Ubermensch! / Kim Newman
Dispatches from the Revolution / Pat Cadigan
Pipes / Robert Reed
Matter's end / Gregory Benford
A history of the twentieth centruy, with illustrations / Kim Stanley Robinson
Gene wars / Paul J. McAuley
The gallery of his dreams / Kristine Kathryn Rusch
A walk in the sun / Geoffrey A. Landis
Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria/ Ian McDonald
Angels in love / Kathe Koja
Eyewall / Rick Shelley
Pogrom / James Patrick Kelly
The moat / Greg Egan
Voices / Jack Dann
FOAM / Brian W. Aldiss
Jack / Connie Willis
La Macchina / Chris Beckett
One perfect morning, with Jackals / Mike Resnick
Desert rain / Mark L. Van Name and Pat Murphy.
10th: Griffin's egg / Michael Swanwick
Even the queen / Connie Willis
The round-eyed barbarians / L. Sprague de Camp
Dust / Greg Egan
Two guys from the future / Terry Bisson
The mountain to Mohammed / Nancy Kress
The coming of the vertumnus / Ian Watson
A long night's vigil at the temple / Robert Silverberg
The hammer of God / Arthur C. Clarke
Grownups / Ian R. MacLeod
Graves / Joe Haldeman
The glowing cloud / Steven Utley
Gravity's angel / Tom Maddox
Protection / Maureen F. McHugh
The last cardinal bird in Tennessee / Neal Barrett, Jr.
Birth day / Robert Reed
Naming names / Pat Cadigan
The Elvis National Theater of Okinawa / Jonathan Lethem and Lukas Jaeger
The territory / Bradley Denton
The best and the rest of James Joyce / Ian McDonald
Naming the flowers / Kate Wilhelm
Snodgrass / Ian R. MacLeod
By the mirror of my youth / Kathe Koja
Outnumbering the dead / Frederik Pohl.
11th: Papa / Ian R. MacLeod
Sacred cow / Bruce Sterling
Dancing on air / Nancy Kress
A visit to the farside / Don Webb
Alien bootlegger / Rebecca Ore
Death on the Nile / Connie Willis
Friendship bridge / Brian W. Aldiss
Into the Miranda Rift / G. David Nordley
Mwalimu in the squared circle / Mike Resnick
Guest of honor / Robert Reed
Love toys of the gods / Pat Cadigan
Chaff / Greg Egan
Georgia on my mind / Charles Sheffield
Cush / Neal Barrett, Jr.
On the collection of humans / Mark Rich
There and then / Steven Utley
The night we buried road dog / Jack Cady
Feedback / Joe Haldeman
Lieserl / Stephen Baxter
Flashback / Dan Simmons
A child's Christmas in Florida / William Browning Spencer
Whispers / Maureen F. McHugh and David B. Kisor
Wall, stone, craft / Walter Jon Williams.
12th: Forgiveness day
Ursula K. Le Guin
The remoras / Robert Reed
Nekropolis / Maureen F. McHugh
Margin of error / Nancy Kress
Cilia-of-gold / Stephen Baxter
Going after old man Alabama / William Sanders
Melodies of the heart / Michael F. Flynn
The hole in the hole / Terry Bisson
Paris in June / Pat Cadigan
Flowering mandrake / George Turner
None so blind / Joe Haldeman
Cocoon / Greg Egan
Seven views of Olduvai Gorge / Mike Resnick
Dead space for the unexpected / Geoff Ryman
Cri de coeur / Michael Bishop
The sawing boys / Howard Waldrop
The matter of Seggri / Ursula K. Le Guin
Ylem / Eliot Fintushel
Asylum / Katharine Kerr
Red Elvis / Walter Jon Williams
California dreamer / Mary Rosenblum
Split light / Lisa Goldstein
Les fleurs du mal / Brian Stableford
13th: $t A woman's liberation / $r Ursula K. Le Guin
$t Starship day / $r Ian R. MacLeod
$t A place with shade / $r Robert Reed
$t Luminous / $r Greg Egan
$t The promise of God / $r Michael F. Flynn
$t Death in the promised land / $r Pat Cadigan
$t For white hill / $r Joe Haldeman
$t Some like it cold / $r John Kessel
$t The death of Captain Future / $r Allen Steele
$t The Lincoln train / $r Maureen F. McHugh
$t We were out of our minds with joy / $r David Marusek
$t Radio waves / $r Michael Swanwick
$t Wang's carpets / $r Greg Egan
$t Casting at Pegasus / $r Mary Rosenblum
$t Looking for Kelly Dahl / $r Dan Simmons
$t Think like a dinosaur / $r James Patrick Kelly
$t Coming of age in Karhide / $r Ursula K. Le Guin
$t Genesis / $r Poul Anderson
$t Feigenbaum number / $r Nancy Kress
$t Home / $r Geoff Ryman
$t There are no dead / $r Terry Bisson
$t Recording angel / $r Paul J. McAuley
$t Elvis Bearpaw's luck / $r William Sanders
$t Mortimer Gray's History of death / $r Brian Stableford.
14th: $t Immersion / $r Gregory Benford
$t The dead / $r Michael Swanwick
$t The flowers of Aulit Prison / $r Nancy Kress
$t A dry, quiet war / $r Tony Daniel
$t Thirteen phantasms / $r James P. Blaylock
$t Primrose and thorn / $r Bud Sparhawk
$t The miracle of Ivar Avenue / $r John Kessel
$t The last homosexual / $r Paul Park
$t Recording angel / $r Ian McDonald
$t Death do us part / $r Robert Silverberg
$t The spade of reason / $r Jim Cowan
$t The cost to be wise / $r Maureen F. McHugh
$t Bicycle repairman / $r Bruce Sterling
$t The weighing of Ayre / $r Gregory Feeley
$t The longer voyage / $r Michael Cassutt
$t The land of Nod / $r Mike Resnick
$t Red Sonja and Lessingham in dreamland / $r Gwyneth Jones
$t The lady vanishes / $r Charles Sheffield
$t Chrysalis / $r Robert Reed
$t The wind over the world / $r Steven Utley
$t Changes / $r William Barton
$t Counting cats in Zanzibar / $r Gene Wolfe
$t How we got in town and out again / $r Jonathan Lethem
$t Dr. Tilmann's consultant : a scientific romance / $r Cherry Wilder
$t Schrodinger's dog / $r Damien Broderick
$t Foreign devils / $r Walter Jon Williams
$t In the MSOB / $r Stephen Baxter
$t The robot's twilight companion / $r Tony Daniel.
15th annual collection: $t Beauty in the night / $r Robert Silverberg
$t Second skin / $r Paul J. McAuley
$t Steamship soldier on the information front / $r Nancy Kress
$t Reasons to be cheerful / $r Greg Egan
$t Moon six / $r Stephen Baxter
$t We will drink a fish together
/ $r Bill Johnson
$t Escape route / $r Peter F. Hamilton
$t Itsy Bitsy Spider / $r James Patrick Kelly
$t A spy in Europa / $r Alastair Reynolds
$t The undiscovered / $r William Sanders
$t Echoes / $r Alan Brennert
$t Getting to know you / $r David Marusek
$t balinese dancer / $r Gwyneth Jones
$t Marrow / $r Robert Reed
$t Heart of whitenesse / $r Howard Waldrop
$t The wisdom of Old Earth / $r Michael Swanwick
$t The pipes of Pan / $r Brian Stableford
$t Crossing Chao Meng Fu / $r G. David Nordley
$t Yeyuka / $r Greg Egan
$t Frost painting / $r Carolyn Ives Gilman
$t Lethe / $r Walter Jon Williams
$t Winter fire / $r Geoffrey A. Landis
$t Nevermore / $t Ian R. MacLeod
$t Open veins / $r Simon Ings
$t After Kerry / $r Ian McDonald
$t The masque of Agamemnon / $r Sean Williams and Simon Brown
$t Gulliver at home / $r John Kessel
$t A cold, dry cradle / $r Gregory Benford and Elisabeth Malatre.
16th: Oceanic / G. Egan
Approaching perimelasma / G. Landis
Craphound / C. Doctorow
Jedella ghost / T. Lee
Taklamakan / B. Sterling
The island of the immortals / U. Le Guin
Sea change, with monsters / P. McAuley
Divided by infinity / R. Wilson
Us / H. Waldrop
The days of Solomon Gursky / I. McDonald
The cuckoo's boys / R. Reed
The halfway house at the heart of darkness / W. Spencer
The very pulse of the machine / M. Swanick
Story of your life / T. Chiang
Voivodoi / L. Williams
Saddlepoint: roughneck / S. Baxter
This side of independence / R. Chilson
Unborn again / C. Lawson
Grist / T. Daniel
La cenerentola / G. Jones
Down in the dark / W. Barton
Free in Asveroth / J. Grimsley
The dancing floor / C. Wilder
The summer isles / I. MacLeod.
17th: The wedding album / David Marusek
10 p16 s to 1 / James Patrick Kelly
Winemaster / Robert Reed
Galactic north / Alastair Reynolds
Dapple: a Hwarhath historical romance / Eleanor Arnason
People came from Earth / Stephen Baxter
Green tea / Richard Wadholm
The dragon of Pripyat / Karl Schroeder
Written in blood / Chrius Lawson
Hatching the phoenix / Frederik Pohl
Suicide coast / M. John Harrison
Hunting mother / Sage Walker
Mount Olympus / Ben Bova
Border guards / Greg Egan
Scherzo with tyrannosaur / Michael Swanwick
A hero of the empire / Robert Silverberg
How we lost the moon, a true story by Frank W. Allen / Paul J. McAuley
Phallicide / Charles Sheffield
Daddy's world / Walter Jon Williams
A Martian romance / Kim Stanley Robinson
The sky-green blues / Tanith Lee
Exchange rate / Hal Clement
Everywhere / Geoff Ryman
Hothouse flowers / Mike Resnick
Evermore / Sean Williams
Of scorned women and causal loops / Robert Grossbach
Son observe the time / Kage Baker
Honorable mentions: 1999.
18th, 2001: The Juniper tree / John Kessel
Antibodies / Charles Stross
The birthday of the world / Ursula K. Le Guin
Savior / Nancy Kress
Reef / Paul J. McAuley
Going after Bobo / Susan Palwick
Crux / Albert E. Cowdrey
The cure for everything / Severna Park
The suspect genome / Peter F. Hamilton
The raggle taggle gypsy-o / Michael Swanwick
Radiant green star / Lucius Shepard
Great wall of Mars / Alastair Reynolds
Milo and Sylvie / Eliot Fintushel
Snowball in Hell / Brian Stableford
On the Orion line / Stephen Baxter
Oracle / Greg Egan
Obsidian harvest / Rick Cook & Ernest Hogan
Patient zero / Tananarive Due
A colder war / Charles Stross
The real world / Steven Utley
The thing about Benny / M. Shayne Bell
The great goodbye / Robert Charles Wilson
Tendele'o's story / Ian McDonald
Honorable mentions: 2000.
19th: Summations: 2001 --
New light on the Drake equation / Ian R. MacLeod --
More adventures on other planets / Michael Cassutt --
On K2 with Kanakaredes / Dan Simmons --
When this world is all on fire / William Sanders --
Computer virus / Nancy Kress --
Have not have / Geoff Ryman --
Lobsters / Charles Stross --
The dog said bow-wow / Michael Swanwick --
The chief designer / Andy Duncan --
Neutrino drag / Paul Di Filippo --
Glacial / Alastair Reynolds --
The days between / Allen M. Steele --
One-horse town / Howard Waldrop and Leigh Kennedy --
Moby quilt / Eleanor Arnason --
Raven dream / Robert Reed --
Undone / James Patrick Kelly --
The real thing / Carolyn Ives Gilman --
Interview: on any given day / Maureen F. McHugh --
Isabel of the fall / Ian R. MacLeod --
Into Greenwood / Jim Grimsley --
Know how, can do / Michael Blumlein --
Russian vine / Simon Ings --
The two dicks / Paul McAuley --
May be some time / Brenda W. Clough --
Marcher / Chris Beckett --
The human front / Ken MacLeod --
Honorable mentions: 2001.
20th: Breathmoss / Ian R. MacLeod
The most famous little girl in the world / Nancy Kress
The passenger / Paul McAuley
The political officer / Charles Coleman Finlay
Lambing season / Molly Gloss
Coelacanths / Robert Reed
Presence / Maureen F. McHugh
Halo / Charles Stross
In paradise / Bruce Sterling
The old cosmonaut and the construction worker dream of mars / Ian McDonald
Stories for men / John Kessel
To become a warrior / Chris Beckett
The clear blue seas of Luna / Gregory Benford
V.A.O. / Geoff Ryman
Winters are hard / Steven Popkes
At the money / Richard Wadholm
Agent provocateur / Alexander Irvine
Singleton / Greg Egan
Slow life / Michael Swanwick
A flock of birds / James Van Pelt
The potter of bones / Eleanor Arnason
The whisper of disks / John Meaney
The hotel at Harlan's Landing / Kage Baker
The millennium party / Walter Jon Williams
Turquoise days / Alastair Reynolds.
26th: Summation:2008
Turing's Apples / Stephen Baxter
From Babel's Fall'N Glory We Fled / Michael Swanwick
The Gambler / Paolo Bacigalupi
Boojum / Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette
The Six Directions of Space / Alastair Reynolds
N-Words / Ted Kosmatka
An Eligible Boy / Ian McDonald
Shining Armour / Dominic Green
The Hero / Karl Schroeder
Evil Robot Monkey / Mary Robinette Kowal
Five Thrillers / Robert Reed
The Sky that Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black / Jay Lake
Incomers / Paul McAuley
Crystal Nights / Greg Egan
The Egg Man / Mary Rosenblum
His Master's Voice / Hannu Rajaniemi
The Political Prisoner / Charles Coleman Finlay
Balancing Accounts / James L. Cambias
Special Economics / Maureen McHugh
Days of Wonder / Geoff Ryman
City of the Dead / Paul McAuley
The Voyage Out / Geynwth Jones
The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm / Daryl Gregory
The Erdmann Nexus / Nancy Kress
Old Friends / Garth Nix
The Ray-Gun: A Love Story / James Alan Gardner
Lester Young and the Jupiter's Moons' Blues / Gord Sellar
Butterfly, Falling at Dawn / Aliette de Bodard
The Tear / Ian McDonald
27th: Utriusque Cosmi / Robert Charles Wilson
A Story, With Beans / Steven Gould
Under The Shouting Sky / Karl Bunker
Events Preceding The Helvetican Renaissance / John Kessel
Useless Things / Maureen F. McHugh
Black Swan / Bruce Sterling
Crimes and Glory / Paul J. McAuley
Seventh Fall / Alexander Irvine
Butterfly Bomb / Dominic Green
Infinities / Vandana Singh
Things Undone / John Barnes
On the Human Plan / Jay Lake
The Island / Peter Watts
the Integrity of the Chain / Lavie Tidhar
Lion Walk / Mary Rosenblum
Escape To Other Worlds With Science Fiction / Jo Walton
Three Leaves of Aloe / Rand B. Lee
Mongoose / Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
Paradiso Lost / Albert E. Cowdrey
It Takes Two / Nicola Griffith
Blocked / Geoff Ryman
Solace / James Van Pelt
Act One / Nancy Kress
Twilight of the Gods / John C. Wright
Blood Dauber / Ted Kosmatka and Michael Poore
This Wind Blowing, and This Tide / Damien Broderick
Hair / Adam Roberts
Before My Last Breath / Robert Reed
One Of Our Bastards is Missing / Paul Cornell
Edison's Frankenstein / Chris Roberson
Erosion / Ian Creasey
Vishnu at the Cat Circus / Ian McDonald
30th: Weep for a day / Indrapramit Das
The man / Paul McAuley
The stars do not lie / Jay Lake
The memcordist / Lavie Tidhar
The girl-thing who went out for sushi / Pat Cadigan
Holmes Sherlock / Eleanor Arnason
Nightfall on the peak of eternal light / Richard A. Lovett and William Gleason
Close encounters / Andy Duncan
The finite canvas / Brit Mandelo
Steamgothic / Sean McMullen
In the house of Aryaman, a lonely signal burns / Elizabeth Bear
Macy Minnot's last Christmas on dione, ring racing, fiddler's green, the potter's garden / Paul McAuley
Twenty lights to "the land of snow" / Michael Bishop
Astrophilia / Carrie Vaughn
What did Tessimond tell you? / Adam Roberts
Old paint / Megan Lindholm
Chitai heiki koronbin / David Moles
Katabasis / Robert Reed
The water thief / Alastair Reynolds
Nightside on Callisto / Linda Nagata
Under the eaves / Lavie Tidhar
Sudden, broken, and unexpected / Steven Popkes
Fireborn / Robert Charles Wilson
Rumination in an alien tongue / Vandana Singh
Tyche and the ants / Hannu Rajaniemi
The wreck of the "Charles Dexter ward" / Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear
Invisible men / Christoper Barzak
Ship's brother / Aliette de Bodard
Eater-of-bone / Robert Reed.
31st: The discovered country /rIan R. MacLeod --
The book seller /rLavie Tidhar --
Pathways /rNancy Kress --
A heap of broken images /rSunny Moraine --
Rock of ages /rJay Lake --
Rosary and goldenstar /rGeoff Ryman --
Gray wings /rKarl Bunker --
The best we can /rCarrie Vaughn --
Transitional forms /rPaul J. McAuley --
Precious mental /rRobert Reed --
Martian blood /rAllen M. Steele --
Zero for conduct /rGreg Egan --
The waiting stars /rAliette de Bodard --
A map of mercury /rAlastair Reynolds --
One /rNancy Kress --
Murder on the Aldrin Express /rMartin L. Shoemaker --
Biographical fragments of the life of Julian Prince /rJake Kerr --
The plague /rKen Liu --
Fleet /rSandra McDonald --
The she-wolf's hidden grin /rMichael Swanwick --
Bad day on Boscobel /rAlexander Jablokov --
The Irish astronaut /rVal Nolan --
The other gun /rNeal Asher --
Only human /rLavie Tidhar --
Entangled /rIan R. MacLeod --
Earth /rStephen Baxter --
Technarion /rSean McMullen --
Finders /rMelissa Scott --
The Queen of Night's aria /rIan McDonald --
Hard stars /rBrenda DuBois --
The promise of space /rJames Patrick Kelly --
Quicken /rDamien Broderick.
32nd: Summation: 2014 --
The fifth dragon / Ian McDonald --
The rider / J©♭r©þme Cigut --
The days of the war, as red as blood, as dark as bile / Aliette de Bodard --
The burial of Sir John Mawe at Cassini / Chaz Brenchley --
The regular / Ken Liu --
The woman from the ocean / Karl Bunker --
Shooting the apocalypse / Paolo Bacigalupi --
Weather / Susan Palwick --
The hand is quicker / Elizabeth Bear --
The man who sold the moon / Cory Doctorow --
Vladimir Chong chooses to die / Lavie Tidhar --
Beside the damned river / D.J. Cockburn --
The colonel / Peter Watts --
Entanglement / Vandana Singh --
White curtain / Pavel Amnuel, translated by Anatoly Belilovsky --
Slipping / Lauren Beukes --
Passage of Earth / Michael Swanwick --
Amicae aeternum / Ellen Klages --
In Babelsberg / Alastair Reynolds --
Sadness / Timons Esaias --
West to East / Jay Lake --
Grand jet©♭ (The great leap) / Rachel Swirsky --
Covenant / Elizabeth Bear --
Jubilee / Karl Schroeder --
Los piratas del mar de plastico (Pirates of the plastic ocean) / Paul Graham Raven --
Red lights, and rain / Gareth L. Powell --
Coma kings / Jessica Barber --
The prodigal son / Allen M. Steele --
God decay / Rich Larson --
Blood wedding / Robert Reed --
The long haul, from the Annals of transportation, the Pacific monthly, May 2009 / Ken Liu --
Shadow flock / Greg Egan --
Thing and sick / Adam Roberts --
Communion / Mary Ann Mohanraj --
Someday / James Patrick Kelly --
Yesterday's kin / Nancy Kress --
Honorable mentions: 2014.
33rd: The falls: a Luna story / Ian McDonald --
Three cups of grief, by starlight / Aliette de Bodard --
Ruins / Eleanor Arnason --
Another word for world / Ann Leckie --
Meshed / Rich Larson --
Emergence / Gwyneth Jones --
Gypsy / Carter Scholz --
The Astrakhan, the Homburg, and the Red Red Coat / Chaz Brenchley --
The muses of Shuyedan-18 / Indrapramit Das --
Bannerless / Carrie Vaughn --
The audience / Sean McMullen --
Rates of change / James S.A. Corey --
Calved / Sam J. Miller --
Botanica Veneris: Thirteen papercuts by Ida Countess Rathagan / Ian McDonald --
Consolation / John Kessel --
The children of Gal / Allen M. Steele --
Today I am Paul / Martin L. Shoemaker --
City of ash / Paolo Bacigalupi --
Trapping the Pleistecene / James Sarafin --
Machine learning / Nancy Kress --
Inhuman garbage / Kristine Kathryn Rusch --
Planet of fear / Paul J. McAuley --
It takes more muscles to frown / Ned Beauman --
The daughters of John Demetrius / Joe Pitkin --
Silence like diamonds / John Barnes --
Billy Tumult / Nick Harkaway --
Hello, hello; can you hear me, hello / Seanan McGuire --
Capitalism in the 22nd century of A.I.R / Geoff Ryman --
Ice / Rich Larson --
The First Gate of Logic / Benjamin Rosenbaum --
In Panic Town, on the backward moon / Michael F. Flynn --
The three resurrections of Jessica Churchill / Kelly Robson --
No placeholder for you, my love / Nick Wolven --
The game of smash and recovery / Kelly Link --
A stopped clock / Madeline Ashby --
The citadel of weeping pearls / Aliette de Bodard.
34th : Terminal / Lavie Tidhar --
Touring with the alien / Carolyn Ives Gilman --
Patience lake / Matthew Claxton --
Jonas and the fox / Rich Larson --
Prodigal / Gord Sellar --
Kit: some assembly required / Kathe Koja & Carter Scholz --
Vortex / Gregory Benford --
Elves of Antarctica / Paul McAuley --
The baby eaters / Ian McHugh --
A salvaging of ghosts / Aliette de Bodard --
Those shadows laugh / Geoff Ryman --
Redking / Craig DeLancey --
Things with beards / Sam J. Miller --
Fieldwork / Shariann Lewitt --
The further adventures of Mr. Costello / David Gerrold --
Innumerable glimmering lights / Rich Larson --
Fifty shades of grays / Steven Barnes --
Sixteen questions for Kamala Chatterjee / Alastair Reynolds --
Cold comfort / Pat Murphy & Paul Doherty --
The art of space travel / Nina Allan --
Flight from the ages / Derek Kusken --
My generations shall praise / Samantha Henderson --
Mars abides / Stephen Baxter --
The visitor from Taured / Ian R. MacLeod --
When the stone eagle flies / Bill Johnson --
The vanishing kind / Lavie Tidhar --
One sister, two sisters, three / James Patrick Kelly --
Dispatches from the cradle: the hermit - forty-eight hours in the sea of Massachusetts / Ken Liu --
Checkerboard planet / Eleanor Arnason --
They have all one breath / Karl Bunker --
Mika model / Paolo Bacigalupi --
That game we played during the war / Carrie Vaughn --
Because change was the ocean and we lived by her mercy / Charlie Jane Anders --
The one who isn't / Ted Kosmatka --
Those brighter stars / Mercurio D. Rivera --
A tower for the coming world / Maggie Clark --
Firstborn, lastborn / Melissa Scott --
Women's Christmas / Ian McDonald --
The iron tactician / Alastair Reynolds.
35th: Summation: 2017
The moon is not a battlefield / Indrapramit Das
My English name / R. S. Benedict
An evening with Severyn Grimes / Rich Larson
Vanguard 2.0 / Carter Scholz
Starlight express / Michael Swanwick
The Martian obelisk / Linda Nagata
We who live in the heart / Kelly Robson
Winter timeshare / Ray Nayler
Dear Sarah / Nancy Kress
Night passage / Alastair Reynolds
The dragon that flew out of the sun / Aliette de Bodard
Waiting out the end of the world in Patty's Place Cafe / Naomi Kritzer
The hunger after you're fed / James S. A. Corey
Assassins / Jack Skillingstead and Burt Courtier
The Martian job / Jaine Fenn
The road to the sea / Lavie Tidhar
Uncanny valley / Greg Egan
The wordless / Indrapramit Das
Pan-humanism: hope and pragmatics / Jessica Barber and Sara Saab
Zigeuner / Harry Turtledove
The proving ground / Alec Nevala-Lee
Zen and the art of starship maintenance / Tobias S. Buckell
The influence machine / Sean McMullen
Canoe / Nancy Kress
The history of the invasion told in five dogs / Kelly Jennings
Prime meridian / Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Triceratops / Ian McHugh
Mines / Eleanor Arnason
There used to be olive trees / Rich Larson
Whending my way back home / Bill Johnson
Death on Mars / Madeline Ashby
Elephant on table / Bruce Sterling
Number thirty-nine skink / Suzanne Palmer
A series of steaks / Vina Jie-Min Prasad
The last boat-builder in Ballyvoloon / Finbarr O'Reilly
The residue of fire / Robert Reed
Sidewalks / Maureen F. McHugh
Nexus / Michael F. Flynn
Honorable mentions: 2017.
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New York : Bluejay Books/St. Martin's, 1984-.
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