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_____, “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,”
Asimov’s
, April/May.
Liz Williams, “At Shadow Cope,”
Celebrations
.
_____, “Queen of the Sunlit Shore,”
Myth-Understandings
.
_____, “Spiderhorse,”
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

Acknowledgments

Summation: 2008

TURING’S APPLES • Stephen Baxter

FROM BABEL’S FALL’N GLORY WE FLED • Michael Swanwick

THE GAMBLER • Paolo Bacigalupi

BOOJUM • Elizabeth Bear and 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 J. 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 F. McHugh

DAYS OF WONDER • Geoff Ryman

CITY OF THE DEAD • Paul McAuley

THE VOYAGE OUT • Gwyneth Jones

THE ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY OF LORD GRIMM • Daryl Gregory

G-MEN • Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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 DOWN • Aliette de Bodard

THE TEAR • Ian McDonald

HONORABLE MENTIONS: 2008

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