The Year's Best Science Fiction

The Nebula Award winners for 2008 were announced at the awards convention in Austin, Texas on April 26, 2009. The Hugo Award winners will be announced at Anticipation, the 67th Annual World Science Fiction Convention in Montreal Quebec, August 6-10, 2009.

Award winners and nominees:

* Evil Robot Monkey by Mary Robinette Kowal, nominee, 2009 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
* From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled by Michael Swanwick, nominee, 2009 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
* The Gambler by Paolo Bacigalupi, nominee, 2009 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
* The Ray-Gun: A Love Story by James Alan, nominee, 2009 Hugo Award and 2008 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* The Erdmann Nexus by Nancy Kress, nominee, 2009 Hugo Award for Best Novella
* The Political Prisoner by Charles Coleman, nominee, 2009 Hugo Award and 2008 Nebula Award for Best Novella
* The Tear" by Ian McDonald, nominee, 2009 Hugo Award for Best Novella

Other Stories

* Turing's Apples by Stephen Baxter
* From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled by Michael Swanwick
* Boojum by Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette
* The Six Directions Of Space by Alastair Reynolds
* N-Words by Ted Kosmatka
* An Eligible Boy by Ian McDonald
* Shining Armour by Dominic Green
* The Hero by Karl Schroeder
* Five Thrillers by Robert Reed
* The Sky That Wraps The World Round, Past The Blue And Into The Black by Jay Lake
* Incomers by Paul McAuley
* Crystal Nights by Greg Egan
* The Egg Man by Mary Rosenblum
* His Master's Voice by Hannu Rajaniemi
* Balancing Accounts by James L. Cambias
* Special Economics by Maureen McHugh
* Days Of Wonder by Geoff Ryman
* City Of The Dead by Paul McAuley
* The Voyage Out by Gwyneth Jones
* The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm by Daryl Gregory
* G-Men by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
* Old Friends by Garth Nix
* Lester Young and the Jupiter's Moons' Blues by Gord Sellar
* Butterfly, Falling At Dawn by Aliete de Bodard

Award winners and nominees:

* Kiosk by Bruce Sterling, nominee, 2007 Nebula Award for Best Novella
* The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate by Ted Chiang, winner, 2008 Hugo Award and 2007 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Finisterra by David Moles, nominee, 2008 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
* Glory by Greg Egan, nominee, 2008 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
* Tideline by Elizabeth Bear, winner, 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
* Last Contact by Stephen Baxter, nominee, 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story

Other stories:

* Lighting Out by Ken MacLeod
* An Ocean Is a Snowflake Four Billion Miles Away by John Barnes
* Saving Tiamaat by Gweyneth Jones
* Of Late I Dreamt of Venus by James Van Pelt
* Verthandi's Ring by Ian McDonald
* Sea Change by Una McCormack
* The Sky Is Large and the Earth Is Small by Chris Roberson
* Against the Current by Robert Silverberg
* Alien Archeology by Neal Asher
* Beyond the Wall by Justin Stanchfield
* The Sledge-Maker's Daughter by Alastair Reynolds
* Sanjeev and Robotwallah by Ian McDonald
* The Skysailor's Tale by Michael Swanwick
* Of Love and Other Monsters by Vandana Singh
* Steve Fever by Greg Egan
* Hellfire at Twilight by Kage Baker
* The Immortals of Atlantis by Brian Stableford
* Nothing Personal by Pat Cadigan
* The Accord by Keith Brooke
* Laws of Survival by Nancy Kress
* The Mists of Time by Tom Purdom
* Craters by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
* Stray by Benjamin Rosenbaum & David Ackert
* Roxie by Robert Reed
* Dark Heaven by Gregory Benford

Award winners and nominees:

* Julian a Christmas Story by Robert Charles Wilson, nominee, 2007 Hugo Award for Best Novella
* The Djinn's Wife by Ian McDonald, winner, 2007 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
* Yellow Card Man by Paolo Bacigalupi, nominee, 2007 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
* I Row-Boat by Cory Doctorow, nominee, 2006 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
* The House Beyond Your Sky by Benjamin Rosenbaum, nominee, 2007 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
* Kin by Bruce McAllister, nominee, 2007 Hugo Award for Best Short Story

Other stories

* Tin Marsh by Michael Swanwick
* Where the Golden Apples Grow by Kage Baker
* Signal to Noise by Alastair Reynolds
* The Big Ice by Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold
* Bow Shock by Gregory Benford
* In the River by Justin Stanchfield
* Incarnation Day by Walter Jon Williams
* Far as You Can Go by Greg Van Eekhout
* Good Mountain by Robert Reed
* I Hold My Father's Paws by David D. Levine
* Dead Men Walking by Paul J. McAuley
* Home Movies by Mary Rosenblum
* Damascus by Daryl Gregory
* Life on the Preservation by Jack Skillingstead
* Riding the Crocodile by Greg Egan
* The Ile of Dogges by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
* The Highway Men by Ken MacLeod
* The Pacific Mystery by Stephen Baxter
* Okanoggan Falls by Carolyn Ives Gilman
* Every Hole Is Outlined by John Barnes
* The Town on Blighted Sea by A. M. Dellamonica
* Nightingale by Alastair Reynolds

Gardner Dozois has selected thirteen novellas he considers the best from the same volumes in Volume 1. All awards cited are in the Best Novella category.

* Sailing To Byzantium by Robert Silverberg, nominee, 1986 Hugo Award and winner, 1985 Nebula Award
* Surfacing by Walter Jon Williams, nominee, 1989 Hugo Award and 1988 Nebula Award
* The Hemingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman, winner, 1991 Hugo Award and 1990 Nebula Award
* Mr. Boy by James Patrick Kelly, nomination, 1990 Nebula Award
* Beggars In Spain by Nancy Kress, winner 1992 Hugo Award and 1991 Nebula Award
* Griffin's Egg by Michael Swanwick, nomination 1992 Hugo Award and 1992 Nebula Award
* Outnumbering The Dead by Frederick Pohl
* Forgiveness Day by Ursula K. LeGuin, nominee, 1995 Hugo Award and 1994 Nebula Award
* The Cost To Be Wise by Maureen F. McHugh, nominee, 1997 Hugo Award and 1996 Nebula Award
* Oceanic by Greg Egan, winner, 1999 Hugo Award
* Tendeleo's Story by Ian McDonald
* New Light On The Drake Equation by Ian R. MacLeod
* Turquoise Days by Alastair Reynolds

Award winners and nominees:

* The Little Goddess by Ian McDonald, nominee, 2006 Hugo Award for Best Novella
* The Calorie Man by Paolo Bacigalupi, nominee, 2006 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
* The Clockwork Atom Bomb by Dominic Green, nominee, 2006 Hugo Award for Best Short Story

Other stories:

* Beyond the Aquila Rift by Alastair Reynolds
* Second Person Present Tense by Daryl Gregory
* The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Back from the Stars by Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold
* Triceratops Summer by Michael Swanwick
* Camouflage by Robert Reed
* A Case of Consilience by Ken MacLeod
* The Blemmye's Strategem by Bruce Sterling
* Amba by William Sanders
* Search Engine by Mary Rosenblum
* Piccadillly Circus by Chris Beckett
* In the Quake Zone by David Gerrold
* La Malcontenta by Liz Williams
* The Children of Time by Stephen Baxter
* Little Faces by Vonda N. McIntyre
* Comber by Gene Wolfe
* Audubon in Atlantis by Harry Turtledove
* Deus Ex Homine by Hannu Rajaniemi
* The Great Caruso by Stephen Popkes
* Softly Spoke the Gabbleduck by Neal Asher
* Zima Blue by Alastair Reynolds
* Planet of the Amazon Women by David Moles
* Gold Mountain by Chris Roberson
* The Fulcrum by Gwyneth Jones
* Mayfly by Peter Watts and Derryl Murphy
* Two Dreams on Trains by Elizabeth Bear
* Angel of Light by Joe Haldeman
* Burn by James Patrick Kelly

Award winners and nominees:

* The Voluntary State by Christopher Rowe, nominee, 2005 Hugo Award and 2004 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* The People of Sand and Slag by Paolo Bacigalupi, nominee, 2005 Hugo Award and 2005 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* The Clapping Hands of God by Michael F. Flynn, nominee, 2005 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
* Men Are Trouble by James Patrick Kelly, nominee, 2005 Nebula Award for Best Novelette

Other stories:

* Inappropriate Behavior by Pat Murphy
* Start the Clock by Benjamin Rosenbaum
* The Third Party by David Moles
* Shiva in Shadow by Nancy Kress
* Tourism by M. John Harrison
* Scout's Honor by Terry Bisson
* Mother Aegypt by Kage Baker
* Synthetic Serendipity by Vernor Vinge
* Skin Deep by Mary Rosenblum
* Delhi by Vandana Singh
* The Tribes of Bela by Albert E. Cowdrey
* Sitka by William Sanders
* Leviathan Wept by Daniel Abraham
* The Defenders by Colin P. Davies
* Mayflower II by Stephen Baxter
* Riding the White Bull by Caitlín R. Kiernan
* Falling Star by Brendan DuBois
* The Dragons of Summer Gulch by Robert Reed
* The Ocean of the Blind by James L. Cambias
* The Garden: A Hwarhath Science Fictional Romance by Eleanor Arnason
* Footvote by Peter F. Hamilton
* Sisyphus and the Stranger by Paul Di Filippo
* Ten Sigmas by Paul Melko
* Investments by Walter Jon Williams

This book was edited and published after the Twenty-First Annual Collection and includes selections from all 21 books. Robert Silverberg contributed a five-page foreword. Gardner Dozois chose the stories based on how he liked them as a reader, without regard to who wrote them.

* Blood Music by Greg Bear, winner 1983 Nebula Award and 1984 Hugo award for Best Novelette
* A Cabin on the Coast by Gene Wolfe, nominee, 1985 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* Salvador by Lucius Shepard, nominee, 1985 Hugo Award and 1984 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* Trinity by Nancy Kress, nominee, 1984 Nebula Award for Best Novella
* Flying Saucer Rock & Roll by Howard Waldrop, nominee, 1986 Hugo Award and 1985 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* Dinner in Audoghast by Bruce Sterling, nominee, 1986 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
* Roadside Rescue by Pat Cadigan
* Snow by John Crowley, nominee, 1986 Hugo Award and 1985 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* The Winter Market by William Gibson, nominee, 1987 Hugo Award and 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* The Pure Product by John Kessel
* Stable Strategies for Middle Management by Eileen Gunn, nominee, 1989 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
* Kirinyaga by Mike Resnick, winner, 1989 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
* Tales from the Venia Woods by Robert Silverberg
* Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson, winner, 1991 Hugo Award and 1990 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* Even the Queen by Connie Willis, winner 1993 Hugo Award and 1992 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* Guest of Honor by Robert Reed
* None So Blind by Joe Haldeman, winner, 1995 Hugo Award and nominees, 1994 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* Mortimer Gray's History of Death by Brian Stableford
* The Lincoln Train by Maureen F. McHugh, winner, 1996 Hugo Award and nominees, 1995 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* Wang's Carpets by Greg Egan
* Coming of Age in Karhide by Ursula K. Le Guin
* The Dead by Michael Swanwick, nominee, 1997 Hugo Award and 1998 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* Recording Angel by Paul J. McAuley
* A Dry Quiet War by Tony Daniel
* The Undiscovered by William Sanders, nominee, 1998 Hugo Award and 1997 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Second Skin by Paul J. McAuley
* Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang, nominee 1998 Hugo Award and winner, Nebula Award for Best Novella
* People Came from Earth by Stephen Baxter
* The Wedding Album by David Marusek, nominee, 1999 Nebula Award
* Ten16 to 1 by James Patrick Kelly, winner, 2000 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
* Daddy's World by Walter Jon Williams, winner, 2000 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* The Real World by Steven Utley
* Have Not Have by Geoff Ryman
* Lobsters by Charles Stross, nominee, 2002 Hugo Award and 2002 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Breathmoss by Ian R. MacLeod, nomination, 2003 Hugo Award and 2003 Nebula Award for Best Novella
* Lambing Season by Molly Gloss, nomination, 2002 Hugo Award and 2002 Nebula Award for Best Short Story

Award winners and nominees:
* The Cookie Monster by Vernor Vinge, winner, 2004 Hugo Award and nominee, Nebula Award for Best Novella
* The Green Leopard Plague by Walter Jon Williams, winner, 2004 Nebula Award and nominee, 2004 Hugo Award for Best Novella

Other stories:
* Off on a Starship - William Barton
* It's All True by John Kessel
* Rogue Farm by Charles Stross
* The Ice by Steven Popkes
* EJ-ES by Nancy Kress
* The Bellman by John Varley
* The Bear's Baby by Judith Moffett
* Calling Your Name by Howard Waldrop
* June Sixteenth at Anna's by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
* The Fluted Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
* Dead Worlds by Jack Skillingstead
* King Dragon by Michael Swanwick
* Singletons in Love by Paul Melko
* Anomalous Structures of My Dreams by M. Shayne Bell
* Joe Steele by Harry Turtledove
* Birth Days by Geoff Ryman
* Awake in the Night by John C. Wright
* The Long Way Home by James Van Pelt
* The Eyes of America by Geoffrey A. Landis
* Welcome to Olympus Mr. Hearst by Kage Baker
* Night of Time by Robert Reed
* Strong Medicine by William Shunn
* Send Me a Mentagram by Dominic Green
* And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon by Paul Di Filippo
* Flashmen by Terry Dowling
* Dragonhead by Nick DiChario
* Dear Abbey by Terry Bisson

Award winners and nominees:
* Breathmoss by Ian R. MacLeod, nominee, 2003 Hugo Award, Best Novella
* The Political Officer by Charles Coleman Finlay, nominee, 2003 Hugo Award and 2002 Nebula Award for Best Novella
* Slow Life by Michael Swanwick, winner, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
* Lambing Season by Molly Gloss, nominee, 2003 Hugo Award and 2003 Nebula Award for Best Short Story

Other stories:
* The Most Famous Little Girl in the World by Nancy Kress
* The Passenger by Paul McAuley
* Coelacanths by Robert Reed
* Presence by Maureen F. McHugh
* Halo by Charles Stross
* In Paradise by Bruce Sterling
* The Old Cosmonaut and the Construction Worker Dream of Mars by Ian McDonald
* Stories for Men by John Kessel
* To Become a Warrior by Chris Beckett
* The Clear Blue Seas of Luna by Gregory Benford
* V.A.O. by Geoff Ryman
* Winters Are Hard by Steven Popkes
* At the Money by Richard Wadholm
* Agent Provocateur by Alexander Irvine
* Singleton by Greg Egan
* A Flock of Birds by James Van Pelt
* The Potter of Bones by Eleanor Arnason
* The Whisper of Discs by John Meaney
* The Hotel at Harlan's Landing by Kage Baker
* The Millennium Party by Walter Jon Williams
* Turquoise Days by Alastair Reynolds

Award winners and nominees:
* May Be Some Time by Brenda W. Clough, nominee, 2002 Hugo Award and 2001 Nebula Award for Best Novella
* The Chief Designer by Andy Duncan, nominee, 2002 Hugo Award for Best Novella
* Lobsters by Charles Stross, nominee, 2002 Hugo Award and 2002 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* The Days Between by Allen M. Steele, nominee, 2002 Hugo Award and 2002 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Undone by James Patrick Kelly, nominee, 2002 Hugo Award and 2001 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* The Dog Said Bow-Wow by Michael Swanwick, winner, 2002 Hugo Award and nominee, 2002 Nebula Award for Best Short Story

Other stories:
* New Light on the Drake Equation by Ian R. MacLeod
* More Adventures on Other Planets by Michael Cassutt
* On K2 with Kanakaredes by Dan Simmons
* When This World Is All on Fire by William Sanders
* Computer Virus by Nancy Kress
* Have Not Have by Geoff Ryman
* Neutrino Drag by Paul Di Filippo
* Glacial by Alastair Reynolds
* One Horse Town by Howard Waldrop and Leigh Kennedy
* Moby Quilt by Eleanor Arnason
* Raven Dream by Robert Reed
* The Real Thing by Carolyn Ives Gilman
* Interview: On Any Given Day by Maureen F. McHugh
* Isabel of the Fall by Ian R. MacLeod
* Into Greenwood by Jim Grimsley
* Know How Can Do by Michael Blumlein
* Russian Vine by Simon Ings
* The Two Dicks by Paul McAuley
* Marcher by Chris Beckett
* The Human Front by Ken MacLeod

Award winners and nominees:
* Oracle by Greg Egan, nominee, 2001 Hugo Award for Best Novella
* On the Orion Line by Stephen Baxter, nominee, 2001 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
* The Cure for Everything by Severna Park, winner, 2001 Nebula Award for Best Short Story

Other stories:
* The Juniper Tree by John Kessel
* Antibodies by Charles Stross
* The Birthday of the World by Ursula K. Le Guin
* Savior by Nancy Kress
* Reef by Paul J. McAuley
* Going After Bobo by Susan Palwick
* Crux - Albert E. Cowdrey
* The Suspect Genome by Peter F. Hamilton
* The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O by Michael Swanwick
* Radiant Green Star by Lucius Shepard
* Great Wall of Mars by Alastair Reynolds
* Milo and Sylvie by Eliot Fintushel
* Snowball in Hell by Brian Stableford
* Obsidian Harvest by Rick Cook and Ernest Hogan
* Patient Zero by Tananarive Due
* A Colder War by Charles Stross
* The Real World by Steven Utley
* The Thing About Benny by M. Shayne Bell
* The Great Goodbye by Robert Charles Wilson
* Tendeléo's Story by Ian McDonald

Award winners and nominees:
* Son Observe the Time by Kage Baker, nominee, 1999 Hugo Award for Best Novella
* Ten16 to 1 by James Patrick Kelly, winner, 1999 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
* Border Guards" by Greg Egan, nominee, 1999 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
* Daddy's World by Walter Jon Williams, winner, 2000 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Scherzo with Tyrannosaur by Michael Swanwick, winner, 2000 Hugo Award and 2000 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* Hothouse Flowers by Mike Resnick, nominee, 2000 Hugo Award for Best Short Story

Other stories:
* The Wedding Album by David Marusek
* Winemaster by Robert Reed
* Galactic North by Alastair Reynolds
* Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance by Eleanor Arnason
* People Came from Earth by Stephen Baxter
* Green Tea by Richard Wadholm
* The Dragon of Pripyat by Karl Schroeder
* Written in Blood by Chris Lawson
* Hatching the Phoenix by Frederik Pohl
* Suicide Coast by M. John Harrison
* Hunting Mother by Sage Walker
* Mount Olympus by Ben Bova
* A Hero of the Empire by Robert Silverberg
* How We Lost the Moon A True Story by Frank W. Allen - by Paul J. McAuley
* Phallicide by Charles Sheffield
* A Martian Romance by Kim Stanley Robinson
* The Sky-Green Blues by Tanith Lee
* Exchange Rate by Hal Clement
* Everywhere by Geoff Ryman
* Evermore by Sean Williams
* Of Scorned Women and Causal Loops by Robert Grossbach

Award winners and nominees:
* Oceanic by Greg Egan, winner, 1999 Hugo Award for Best Novella
* Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang, winner, 1999 Nebula Award for Best Novella
* Taklamakan by Bruce Sterling, winner, 1999 Hugo Award for Best Novelette and nominee, 1999 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Divided by Infinity by Robert Charles Wilson, nominee, 1999 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
* The Very Pulse of the Machine by Michael Swanwick, winner 1999 Hugo Award for Best Short Story

Other stories:
* Approaching Perimelasma by Geoffrey A. Landis
* Craphound by Cory Doctorow
* Jedella Ghost by Tanith Lee
* The Island of the Immortals by Ursula K. Le Guin
* Sea Change with Monsters by Paul J. McAuley
* US by Howard Waldrop
* The Days of Solomon Gursky by Ian McDonald
* The Cuckoo's Boys by Robert Reed
* The Halfway House at the Heart of Darkness by William Browning Spencer
* Voivodoi by Liz Williams
* Saddlepoint: Roughneck by Stephen Baxter
* This Side of Independence by Rob Chilson
* Unborn Again by Chris Lawson
* Grist by Tony Daniel
* La Cenerentola by Gwyneth Jones
* Down in the Dark by William Barton
* Free in Asveroth - Jim Grimsley
* The Dancing Floor by Cherry Wilder
* The Summer Isles by Ian R. MacLeod

Award winners and nominees:
* We Will Drink a Fish Together by Bill Johnson, winner, 1998 Hugo Award for Best Novelette and nominee, 1997 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Moon Six by Stephen Baxter, nominee 1998 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
* Itsy Bitsy Spider by James Patrick Kelly, nominee, 1998 Hugo Award and 1997 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* Steamship Soldier on the Information Front by Nancy Kress, nominee, 1999 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
* Lethe - Walter Jon Williams, nominee, 1998 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* The Undiscovered by William Sanders, nominee, 1997 Nebula Award for Best Novelette

Other stories:
* Beauty in the Night by Robert Silverberg
* Second Skin by Paul J. McAuley
* Reasons to Be Cheerful by Greg Egan
* Escape Route by Peter F. Hamilton
* A Spy in Europa by Alastair Reynolds
* Echoes by Alan Brennert
* Getting to Know You by David Marusek
* Balinese Dancer by Gwyneth Jones
* Marrow by Robert Reed
* Heart of Whitenesse by Howard Waldrop
* The Wisdom of Old Earth by Michael Swanwick
* The Pipes of Pan by Brian Stableford
* Crossing Chao Meng Fu by G. David Nordley
* Yeyuka by Greg Egan
* Frost Painting by Carolyn Ives Gilman
* Winter Fire by Geoffrey A. Landis
* Nevermore by Ian R. MacLeod
* Open Veins by Simon Ings
* After Kerry by Ian McDonald
* The Masque of Agamemnon by Sean Williams and Simon Brown
* Gulliver at Home by John Kessel
* A Cold Dry Cradle by Gregory Benford and Elisabeth Malartre

Award winners and nominees:
* Immersion by Gregory Benford, nominee, 1997 Hugo Award for Best Novella
* The Cost to Be Wise by Maureen F. McHugh, nominee, 1997 Hugo Award and 1996 Nebula Award for Best Novella
* Bicycle Repairman by Bruce Sterling, winner, 1997 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
* The Land of Nod by Mike Resnick, nominee, 1997 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
* The Flowers of Aulit Prison by Nancy Kress, nominee, 1997 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* The Dead by Michael Swanwick, nominee, 1997 Hugo Award for Best Short Story

Other stories:
* A Dry Quiet War by Tony Daniel
* Thirteen Phantasms by James P. Blaylock
* Primrose and Thorn by Bud Sparhawk
* The Miracle of Ivar Avenue by John Kessel
* The Last Homosexual by Paul Park
* Recording Angel by Ian McDonald
* Death Do Us Part by Robert Silverberg
* The Spade of Reason by Jim Cowan
* The Weighing of Ayre by Gregory Feeley
* The Longer Voyage by Michael Cassutt
* Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland by Gwyneth Jones
* The Lady Vanishes by Charles Sheffield
* Chrysalis by Robert Reed
* The Wind Over the World by Steven Utley
* Changes by William Barton
* Counting Cats in Zanzibar by Gene Wolfe
* How We Got in Town and out Again by Jonathan Lethem
* Dr. Tilmann's Consultant A Scientific Romance by Cherry Wilder
* Schrodinger's Dog by Damien Broderick
* Foreign Devils by Walter Jon Williams
* In the MSOB by Stephen Baxter
* The Robot's Twilight Companion by Tony Daniel

Award winners and nominees:
* The Lincoln Train by Maureen F. McHugh, winner, 1996 Hugo Award and nominees, 1995 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* * Luminous by Greg Egan, nominee, Hugo Award for Best Novelette
* Think Like a Dinosaur by James Patrick Kelly, winner 1996 Hugo Award and nominee, 1995 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* The Death of Captain Future by Allen Steele, winner 1996 Hugo Award and nominee, 1996 Nebula Award for Best Novella
* A Woman's Liberation by Ursula K. Le Guin, nominee, 1996 Hugo and Nebula awards for Best Novella

Other stories:

* Starship Day by Ian R. MacLeod
* A Place with Shade by Robert Reed
* The Promise of God by Michael F. Flynn
* Death in the Promised Land by Pat Cadigan
* For White Hill by Joe Haldeman
* Some Like It Cold by John Kessel
* We Were Out of Our Minds with Joy by David Marusek
* Radio Waves by Michael Swanwick
* Wang's Carpets by Greg Egan
* Casting at Pegasus by Mary Rosenblum
* Looking for Kelly Dahl by Dan Simmons
* Coming of Age in Karhide by Sov Thade Tage em Ereb of Rer in Karhide on Gethen by Ursula K. Le Guin
* Genesis by Poul Anderson
* Feigenbaum Number by Nancy Kress
* Home by Geoff Ryman
* There Are No Dead by Terry Bisson
* Recording Angel by Paul J. McAuley
* Elvis Bearpaw's Luck by William Sanders
* Mortimer Gray's History of Death by Brian Stableford

Award winners and nominees:

* None So Blind by Joe Haldeman, winner, 1995 Hugo Award and nominee, 1994 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* Nekropolis by Maureen F. McHugh, nominee, 1994 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Cocoon by Greg Egan, nominee, 1995 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
* The Matter of Seggri by Ursula K. Le Guin, nominee, 1995 Hugo Award and 1995 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Forgiveness Day by Ursula K. Le Guin, nominee, 1995 Hugo Award and 1994 Nebula Award for Best Novella
* Melodies of the Heart by Michael F. Flynn, nominee 1995 Hugo Award for Best Novella
* Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge by Mike Resnick,winner, 1995 Hugo Award and 1994 Nebula Award for Best Novella
* Cri de Coeur by Michael Bishop, nominee, 1995 Hugo Award for Best Novella
* Les Fleurs du Mal by Brian Stableford, nominee, 1995 Hugo Award for Best Novella

Other stories:
* The Remoras by Robert Reed
* Margin of Error by Nancy Kress
* Cilia-of-Gold by Stephen Baxter
* Going After Old Man Alabama by William Sanders
* The Hole in the Hole by Terry Bisson
* Paris In June by Pat Cadigan
* Flowering Mandrake by George Turner
* Dead Space for the Unexpected by Geoff Ryman
* The Sawing Boys by Howard Waldrop
* Ylem by Eliot Fintushel
* Asylum by Katharine Kerr
* Red Elvis by Walter Jon Williams
* California Dreamer by Mary Rosenblum
* Split Light by Lisa Goldstein

Award winners and nominees:

* Mwalimu in the Squared Circle by Mike Resnick, nominee, 1994 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
* Death on the Nile by Connie Willis, winner 1994 Hugo Award for Best Short Story and 1993 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Dancing on Air by Nancy Kress, nominee, 1994 Hugo Award and 1993 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Georgia on My Mind by Charles Sheffield, winner, 1994 Hugo Award and 1993 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Into the Miranda Rift by G. David Nordley, nominee 1994 Hugo Award and 1993 Nebula Award for Best Novella
* The Night We Buried Road Dog by Jack Cady, nominee, 1994 Hugo Award and winner, 1993 Nebula Award for Best Novella
* Wall Stone Craft by Walter Jon Williams, nominee, 1994 Hugo Award and 1993 Nebula Award for Best Novella

Other stories:

* Papa by Ian R. MacLeod
* Sacred Cow by Bruce Sterling
* A Visit to the Farside by Don Webb
* Alien Bootlegger by Rebecca Ore
* Friendship Bridge by Brian W. Aldiss
* Guest of Honor by Robert Reed
* Love Toys of the Gods by Pat Cadigan
* Chaff by Greg Egan
* Cush by Neal Barrett, Jr.
* On the Collection of Humans by Mark Rich
* There and Then by Steven Utley
* Feedback by Joe Haldeman
* Lieserl by Stephen Baxter
* Flashback by Dan Simmons
* A Child's Christmas in Florida by William Browning Spencer
* Whispers by Maureen F. McHugh and David B. Kisor

Award winners and nominees:
* Even the Queen by Connie Willis, winner 1993 Hugo Award and 1992 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* The Mountain to Mohammed by Nancy Kress, nominee, 1993 Hugo Award and 1992 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* Griffin's Egg by Michael Swanwick, nominee, 1992 Hugo Award and Nebula Award for Best Novella
* The Territory by Bradley Denton, nominee 1993 Hugo Award and 1992 Nebula Award for Best Novella
* Protection by Maureen F. McHugh, nominee, 1993 Hugo Award and 1992 Nebula Award for Best Novella

Other stories:

* The Round-Eyed Barbarians by L. Sprague de Camp
* Dust by Greg Egan
* Two Guys from the Future by Terry Bisson
* The Coming of Vertumnus by Ian Watson
* A Long Night's Vigil at the Temple by Robert Silverberg
* The Hammer of God by Arthur C. Clarke
* Grownups by Ian R. MacLeod
* Graves by Joe Haldeman
* The Glowing Cloud by Steven Utley
* Gravity's Angel by Tom Maddox
* The Last Cardinal Bird in Tennessee by Neal Barrett Jr.
* Birth Day by Robert Reed
* Naming Names by Pat Cadigan
* The Elvis National Theater of Okinawa by Jonathan Lethem and Lukas Jaeger
* The Best and the Rest of James Joyce by Ian McDonald
* Naming the Flowers by Kate Wilhelm
* Snodgrass by Ian R. MacLeod
* By the Mirror of My Youth by Kathe Koja
* Outnumbering the Dead by Frederik Pohl

Award winners and nominees:

* The Dark by Karen Joy Fowler, nominee, 1991 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* A Walk in the Sun by Geoffrey A. Landis, winner, 1992 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
* One Perfect Morning with Jackals by Mike Resnick, nominee, 1992 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
* Prayers on the Wind by Walter Jon Williams, nominee, 1992 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Dispatches from the Revolution by Pat Cadigan, nominee, 1992 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
* Matter's End by Gregory Benford, nominee, 1992 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress, winner, 1992 Hugo Award and 1991 Nebula Award for Best Novella
* Jack by Connie Willis, nominee, 1992 Hugo Award and 1991 Nebula Award for Best Novella
* The Gallery of His Dreams by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, nominee, 1992 Hugo Award and 1991 Nebula Award for Best Novella

Other stories:

* Living Will by Alexander Jablokov
* A Just and Lasting Peace by Lois Tilton
* Skinner's Room by William Gibson
* Blood Sisters by Greg Egan
* Marnie by Ian R. MacLeod
* A Tip on a Turtle by Robert Silverberg
* Ubermensch! by Kim Newman
* Pipes by Robert Reed
* A History of the Twentieth Century with Illustrations by Kim Stanley Robinson
* Gene Wars by Paul J. McAuley
* Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria by Ian McDonald
* Angels in Love by Kathe Koja
* Eyewall by Rick Shelley
* Pogrom by James Patrick Kelly
* The Moat by Greg Egan
* Voices by Jack M. Dann
* FOAM by Brian W. Aldiss
* La Macchina by Chris Beckett
* Desert Rain by Mark L. Van Name and Pat Murphy

Award winners and nominees:

* Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson, winner, 1991 Hugo Award and 1990 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* Cibola by Connie Willis, nominee, 1991 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
* Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates by Pat Murphy, nominee, 1990 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* The Shobies' Story by Ursula K. Le Guin, nominee, 1990 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* A Braver Thing by Charles Sheffield, nominee, 1991 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
* The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk by Dafydd ab Hugh, nominee, 1991 Hugo Award and 1990 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Tower of Babylon by Ted Chiang, nominee, 1991 Hugo Award and winner, 1990 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Mr. Boy by James Patrick Kelly, nominee, 1990 Nebula Award for Best Novella
* The Hemingway Hoax by Joe W. Haldeman, winner, 1991 Hugo Award and 1990 Nebula Award for Best Novella

Other stories:

* The Caress by Greg Egan
* We See Things Differently by Bruce Sterling
* And the Angels Sing by Kate Wilhelm
* Past Magic by Ian R. MacLeod
* The All-Consuming by Lucius Shepard and Robert Frazier
* Personal Silence by Molly Gloss
* Invaders by John Kessel
* The Cairene Purse by Michael Moorcock
* The Death Artist by Alexander Jablokov
* The First Since Ancient Persia by John Brunner
* Inertia by Nancy Kress
* Learning to Be Me by Greg Egan
* Walking the Moons by Jonathan Lethem
* Rainmaker Cometh by Ian McDonald
* Hot Sky by Robert Silverberg
* White City by Lewis Shiner

Award winners and nominees:

* Dori Bangs by Bruce Sterling, nominee, 1990 Hugo Award and 1989 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* The Edge of the World by Michael Swanwick, nominee, 1990 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
* For I Have Touched the Sky by Mike Resnick, nominee, 1990 Hugo Award and 1989 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* The Price of Oranges by Nancy Kress, nominee, 1990 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
* Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man by Megan Lindholm, nominee, 1989 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Enter a Soldier Later Enter Another by Robert Silverberg, winner, 1990 Hugo Award and nominee, 1989 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Tiny Tango by Judith Moffett, nominee, 1990 Hugo Award and 1989 Nebula Award for Best Novella
* Great Work of Time by John Crowley, nominee, 1989 Nebula Award for Best Novella

Other stories:

* Out of Copyright by Charles Sheffield
* Alphas by Gregory Benford
* At the Rialto by Connie Willis
* Skin Deep by Kathe Koja
* The Egg by Steven Popkes
* Tales from the Venia Woods by Robert Silverberg
* Visiting the Dead by William King
* The Ends of the Earth by Lucius Shepard
* Lottery Night by S. P. Somtow
* A Deeper Sea by Alexander Jablokov
* The Third Sex by Alan Brennert
* Winter on the Belle Fourche by Neal Barrett, Jr.
* Relationships by Robert Sampson
* Just Another Perfect Day by John Varley
* The Loch Moose Monster by Janet Kagan
* The Magic Bullet by Brian M. Stableford
* The Odd Old Bird by Avram Davidson
* Great Work of Time by John Crowley, nominee, 1989 Nebula Award for Best Novella

Award winners and nominees:

* Stable Strategies for Middle Management by Eileen Gunn, nominee, 1989 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
* Kirinyaga by Mike Resnick, winner, 1989 Hugo Award for Best Short Story and nominee, 1988 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Our Neural Chernobyl by Bruce Sterling, nominee, 1989 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
* Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner by John Kessel, nominee, 1988 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* Peaches for Mad Molly by Steven Gould, nominee, 1989 Hugo Award and 1988 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* The Hob by Judith Moffett, nominee, 1988 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Schrodinger's Kitten by George Alec Effinger, winner, 1989 Hugo Award and 1988 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Do Ya Do Ya Wanna Dance? by Howard Waldrop, nominee, 1989 Hugo Award and 1988 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Surfacing by Walter Jon Williams, nominee, 1989 Hugo Award and 1988 Nebula Award for Best Novella
* The Last of the Winnebagos by Connie Willis, winner, 1989 Hugo Award and 1988 Nebula Award for Best Novella
* The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter by Lucius Shepard, nominee, 1989 Hugo Award and 1988 Nebula Award for Best Novella

Other stories:

* Home Front by James Patrick Kelly
* The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady by Brian M. Stableford
* The Last Article by Harry Turtledove
* In Memoriam by Nancy Kress
* The Girl Who Loved Animals by Bruce McAllister
* Love in Vain by Lewis Shiner
* House of Bones by Robert Silverberg
* The Growth of the House of Usher by Brian M. Stableford
* Glacier by Kim Stanley Robinson
* Sanctuary by James Lawson
* The Dragon Line by Michael Swanwick
* Emissary by Stephen Kraus
* It Was the Heat by Pat Cadigan
* Skin Deep by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
* Dying in Hull by David Alexander Smith
* Distances by Kathe Koja
* Famous Monsters by Kim Newman

Award winners and nominees:

* Forever Yours, Anna by Kate Wilhelm, nomination, 1988 Hugo Award and winner, 1987 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* Night of the Cooters by Howard Waldrop, nomination, 1988 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
* Angel by Pat Cadigan, nomination, 1988 Hugo Award and 1987 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* The Faithful Companion at Forty by Karen Joy Fowler, nomination, 1988 Hugo Award and 1987 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* Rachel in Love by Pat Murphy, nomination, 1988 Hugo Award and winner, 1987 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Dream Baby by Bruce McAllister, nominee, 1988 Hugo Award and 1987 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Flowers of Edo by Bruce Sterling, nominee, 1988 Hugo Award and 1987 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Dinosaurs by Walter Jon Williams, nominee, 1988 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
* Buffalo Gals Won't You Come Out Tonight? by Ursula K. Le Guin, winner, 1988 Hugo Award and nominee, 1987 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* The Evening and the Morning and the Night by Octavia E. Butler, nominee, 1987 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* The Forest of Time by Michael F. Flynn, nominee, 1988 Hugo Award for Best Novella
* Mother Goddess of the World by Kim Stanley Robinson, nominee, 1988 Hugo Award for Best Novella

Other stories:

* At the Cross-Time Jaunters' Ball by Alexander Jablokov
* The Temporary King by Paul J. McAuley
* Perpetuity Blues by Neal Barrett, Jr.
* The Pardoner's Tale by Robert Silverberg
* The Glass Cloud by James Patrick Kelly
* Shades by Lucius Shepard
* Candle in a Cosmic Wind by Joseph Manzione
* The Emir's Clock by Ian Watson
* Ever After by Susan Palwick
* The Million-Dollar Wound by Dean Whitlock
* The Moon of Popping Trees by R. Garcia y Robertson
* Diner by Neal Barrett, Jr.
* All the Hues of Hell by Gene Wolfe
* Halley's Passing by Michael McDowell
* America by Orson Scott Card
* For Thus Do I Remember Carthage by Michael Bishop

Award winners and nominees:

* Pretty Boy Crossover by Pat Cadigan, nominee, 1986 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* Tangents by Greg Bear, winner 1987 Hugo Award and 1986 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* Hatrack River by Orson Scott Card, nominee, 1987 Hugo Award and 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Surviving by Judith Moffett, nominee, 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* The Winter Market by William Gibson, nominee, 1987 Hugo Award and 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* R&R by Lucius Shepard, nominee, 1987 Hugo Award and winner, 1976 Nebula Award for Best Novella

Other stories:

* Strangers on Paradise by Damon Knight
* Against Babylon by Robert Silverberg
* Fiddling for Waterbuffaloes by Somtow Sucharitkul
* Into Gold by Tanith Lee
* Sea Change by Scott Baker
* Covenant of Souls by Michael Swanwick
Y* The Pure Product by John Kessel
* Grave Angels by Richard Keans
* The Beautiful and the Sublime by Bruce Sterling
* Tattoos by Jack Dann
* Night Moves by Tim Powers
* The Prisoner of Chillon by James Patrick Kelly
* Chance by Connie Willis
* And So To Bed by Harry Turtledove
* Fair Game by Howard Waldrop
* Video Star by Walter Jon Williams
* Sallie C by Neal Barrett
* Jeff Beck by Lewis Shiner
* Down and Out in the Year 2000 by Kim Stanley Robinson
* Snake-Eyes by Tom Maddox
* The Gate of Ghosts by Karen Joy Fowler

Award winners and nominees:

* Fermi and Frost by Frederik Pohl, winner, 1986 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
* Snow by John Crowley, nominee, 1986 Hugo Award and 1985 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* More Than The Sum Of His Parts by Joe Haldeman, nominee, 1985 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* Out Of All Them Bright Stars by Nancy Kress, winner, 1985 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* Dinner in Audoghast by Bruce Sterling, nominee, 1986 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
* Paper Dragons by James P. Blaylock, nominee, 1985 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard, nominee, 1985 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Dogfight by Michael Swanwick and William Gibson, nominee, 1986 Hugo Award and 1985 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* The Fringe by Orson Scott Card, nominee, 1986 Hugo Award and 1985 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Rockabye Baby by S. C. Sykes, nominee, 1985 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Green Days in Brunei by Bruce Sterling, nominee, 1985 Nebula Award for Best Novella
* Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg, nominee, 1986 Hugo Award and winner, 1985 Nebula Award for Best Novella
* Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, nominee, 1986 Hugo Award and 1985 Nebula Award for Best Novella

Other stories:

* The Lake Was Full Of Artificial Things by Karen Joy Fowler
* Solstice by James Patrick Kelly
* Duke Pasquale's Ring by Avram Davidson
* Side Effects by Walter Jon Williams
* The Only Neat Thing To Do by James Tiptree, Jr.
* Under Siege by George R. R. Martin
* Flying Saucer Rock & Roll by Howard Waldrop
* A Spanish Lesson by Lucius Shepard
* Roadside Rescue by Pat Cadigan
* Magazine Section by R. A. Lafferty
* The War at Home by Lewis Shiner

Award winners and nominees:

* Salvador by Lucius Shepard, nominee, 1985 Hugo Award and 1984 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* Sunken Gardens by Bruce Sterling, nominee, 1984 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* A Cabin on the Coast by Gene Wolfe, nominee, 1984 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler, winner, 1985 Hugo Award and 1984 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Blued Moon by Connie Willis, nominee, 1985 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
* Trojan Horse by Michael Swanwick, nominee, 1984 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Bad Medicine by Jack Dann, nominee, 1984 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* The Lucky Strike by Kim Stanley Robinson, nominee, 1985 Hugo Award and 1984 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Press Enter [] by John Varley, winner, 1985 Hugo Award and 1984 Nebula Award for Best Novella
* Trinity by Nancy Kress, nominee, 1984 Nebula Award for Best Novella

Other stories:

* Promises to Keep by Jack McDevitt
* A Message to the King of Brobdingnag by Richard Cowper
* The Affair by Robert Silverberg
* New Rose Hotel by William Gibson
* The Map by Gene Wolfe
* Interlocking Pieces by Molly Gloss
* At the Embassy Club by Elizabeth A. Lynn
* Pursuit of Excellence by Rena Yount
* The Kindly Isle by Frederik Pohl
* Rock On by Pat Cadigan
* The Trouble With the Cotton People by Ursula K. Le Guin
* Twilight Time by Lewis Shiner
* Black Coral by Lucius Shepard
* Friend by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
* Foreign Skins by Tanith Lee
* Company in the Wings by R. A. Lafferty

Award winners and nominees:

* Cryptic by Jack McDevitt, nominee, 1983 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* Her Furry Face by Leigh Kennedy, nominee, 1983 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
* Cicada Queen by Bruce Sterling, nominee, 1983 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Slow Birds by Ian Watson, nominee, 1984 Hugo Award and 1983 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* The Sidon in the Mirror by Connie Willis, nominee, 1984 Hugo Award and 1983 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Blood Music by Greg Bear, winner, 1984 Hugo Award and 1983 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* The Monkey Treatment by George R. R. Martin, nominee, 1984 Hugo Award and 1983 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Black Air by Kim Stanley Robinson, nominee, 1984 Hugo Award and 1983 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* Hardfought by Greg Bear, nominee, 1984 Hugo Award and winner, 1983 Nebula Award for Best Novella

Other stories:

* Beyond the Dead Reef by James Tiptree, Jr.
* Vulcan's Forge by Poul Anderson
* Man-Mountain Gentian by Howard Waldrop
* Manifest Destiny by Joe Haldeman
* Full Chicken Richness by Avram Davidson
* Multiples by Robert Silverberg
* Golden Gate by R. A. Lafferty
* Blind Shemmy by Jack Dann
* In the Islands by Pat Murphy
* Nunc Dimittis by Tanith Lee
* Knight of Shallows by Rand B. Lee
* The Cat by Gene Wolfe
* Nearly Departed by Pat Cadigan
* Hearts Do Not in Eyes Shine by John Kessel
* Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
* Gemstone by Vernor Vinge