Year's Best SF 9 - Edited by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer - Octavia Butler & Greg Egan

The world as we will know it is far different from the future once predicted in simpler times. For this newest collection of the finest short-form SF to appear in print over the preceding year, acclaimed editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer have gathered remarkable works that reflect a new sensibility. Courageous and diverse stories from some of the finest authors in the field grace this amazing volume -- adventures and discoveries, parables and warnings, carrying those eager to fly to far ends of a vast, ever-shifting universe of alien worlds, strange cultures, and mind-bending technologies. Tomorrow has never been as spellbinding, terrifying, or transforming as it is here, today, in these extraordinary pages. Hang on!

* Amnesty • (2003) • shortstory by Octavia E. Butler
* Birth Days • (2003) • shortstory by Geoff Ryman
* The Waters of Meribah • (2003) • shortstory by Tony Ballantyne
* EJ-ES • (2003) • novelette by Nancy Kress
* Four Short Novels • (2003) • shortstory by Joe Haldeman
* Rogue Farm • (2003) • shortstory by Charles Stross
* The Violet’s Embryos • (2003) • shortstory by Angélica Gorodischer
* Coyote at the End of History • (2003) • shortstory by Michael Swanwick
* In Fading Suns and Dying Moons • (2003) • novelette by John Varley
* Castaway • (2003) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe
* The Hydrogen Wall • (2003) • novelette by Gregory Benford
* The Day We Went Through the Transition • (2003) • shortstory by Pedro Jorge Romero and Ricard de la Casa
* Nimby and the Dimension Hoppers • (2003) • shortstory by Cory Doctorow
* Night of Time • (2003) • shortstory by Robert Reed
* A Night on the Barbary Coast • (2003) • shortstory by Kage Baker
* Annuity Clinic • (2003) • shortstory by Nigel Brown
* The Madwoman of Shuttlefield • (2003) • novelette by Allen M. Steele
* Bread and Bombs • (2003) • shortstory by M. Rickert
* The Great Game • (2003) • shortstory by Stephen Baxter
* The Albertine Notes • (2003) • shortstory by Rick Moody