Year’s Best SF 9
editors David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer
(HarperCollins/Eos 0-06-057559-X, June 2004, $7.99, 500 + xii, pb, cover by Gregory Bridges)
  • • Amnesty • Octavia E. Butler • ss Sci Fiction website January 22, 2003
  • • Birthdays • Geoff Ryman • ss Interzone April, 2003
  • • The Waters of Meribah • Tony Ballantyne • ss Interzone May/June, 2003
  • • EJ-ES • Nancy Kress • nv Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian, editors Janis Ian and Mike Resnick, DAW, 2003
  • • Four Short Novels • Joe Haldeman • ss F&SF October/November, 2003
  • • Rogue Farm • Charles Stross • ss Live Without a Net, editor Lou Anders, Roc, 2003
  • • The Violet’s Embryos • Angélica Gorodischer • ss Cosmos Latinos, editors Andrea L. Bell & Yolanda Molina-Gavilán, Wesleyan University Press, 2003
  • • Coyote at the End of History • Michael Swanwick • ss Asimov’s October/November, 2003
  • • In Fading Suns and Dying Moons • John Varley • nv Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian, editors Janis Ian and Mike Resnick, DAW, 2003
  • • Castaway • Gene Wolfe • ss Sci Fiction website February 5, 2003
  • • The Hydrogen Wall • Gregory Benford • nv Asimov’s October/November, 2003
  • • The Day We Went Through the Transition • Ricard de la Casa & Pedro Jorge Romero • ss Cosmos Latinos, editors Andrea L. Bell & Yolanda Molina-Gavilán, Wesleyan University Press, 2003
  • Nimby and the Dimension Hoppers • Cory Doctorow • ss Asimov’s June, 2003
  • • Night of Time • Robert Reed • ss The Silver Gryphon, editors Gary Turner & Marty Halpern, Golden Gryphon Press, 2003
  • • A Night on the Barbary Coast • Kage Baker • ss The Silver Gryphon, editors Gary Turner & Marty Halpern, Golden Gryphon Press, 2003
  • • Annuity Clinic • Nigel Brown • ss Interzone April, 2003
  • • The Madwoman of Shuttlefield [Coyote] • Allen M. Steele • nv Asimov’s May, 2003
  • • Bread and Bombs • M. Rickert • ss F&SF April, 2003
  • • The Great Game [Xeelee] • Stephen Baxter • ss Asimov’s March, 2003
  • • The Albertine Notes • Rick Moody • ss McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, editor Michael Chabon, Vintage Books, 2003