The year's best science fiction

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.