2009 - The Year's Best Science Fiction Volume 26 edited by Gardner R. Dozois

The thirty stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: Paolo Bacigalupi, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Bear, Aliete de Bodard, James L. Cambias, Greg Egan, Charles Coleman Finlay, James Alan Gardner, Dominic Green, Daryl Gregory, Gwyneth Jones, Ted Kosmatka, Mary Robinette Kowal, Nancy Kress, Jay Lake, Paul McAuley, Ian McDonald, Maureen McHugh, Sarah Monette, Garth Nix, Hannu Rajaniemi, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Mary Rosenblum, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Geoff Ryman, Karl Schroeder, Gord Sellar, and Michael Swanwick.

Supplementing the stories are the editor’s insightful summation of the year’s events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination, and the heart.

01) Summation: 2008 by Gardner Dozois
02) Turing's Apples by Stephen Baxter
03) From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled... by Michael Swanwick
04) The Gambler by Paolo Bacigalupi
05) Boojum by Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette
06) The Six Directions of Space by Alastair Reynolds
07) N-Words by Ted Kosmatka
08) An Eligible Boy by Ian McDonald
09) Shining Armour by Dominic Green
10) The Hero by Karl Schroeder
11) Evil Robot Monkey by Mary Robinette Kowal
12) Five Thrillers by Robert Reed
13) The Sky That Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black by Jay Lake
14) Incomers by Paul J. McAuley
15) Crystal Nights by Greg Egan
16) The Egg Man by Mary Rosenblum
17) His Master's Voice by Hannu Rajaniemi
18) The Political Prisoner by Charles Coleman Finlay
19) Balancing Accounts by James L. Cambias
20) Special Economics by Maureen F. McHugh
21) Days of Wonder by Geoff Ryman
22) City of the Dead by Paul J. McAuley
23) The Voyage Out by Gwyneth Jones
24) The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm by Daryl Gregory
25) G-Men by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
26) The Erdmann Nexus by Nancy Kress
27) Old Friends by Garth Nix
28) The Ray-Gun: A Love Story by James Alan Gardner
29) Lester Young and the Jupiter's Moons' Blues by Gord Sellar
30) Butterfly, Falling At Dawn by Aliette de Bodard
31) The Tear by Ian McDonald
32) Honorable Mentions: 2008 by Gardner Dozois

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