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• The Year in Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2009 • essay by Rich Horton
• A Story, with Beans • [7th Sigma] • (2009) • short story by Steven Gould
• Child-Empress of Mars • (2009) • short story by Theodora Goss
• The Island • [Sunflower Cycle] • (2009) • novelette by Peter Watts
• The Logic of the World • (2009) • short fiction by Robert Kelly
• The Long, Cold Goodbye • (2009) • novelette by Holly Phillips
• The Endangered Camp • (2009) • short story by Ann Leckie
• Dragon's Teeth • [Borea • 2] • (2009) • novelette by Alex Irvine
• As Women Fight • (2009) • short story by Sara Genge
• Sylgarmo's Proclamation • [Dying Earth] • (2009) • novelette by Lucius Shepard
• Three Twilight Tales • (2009) • short story by Jo Walton
• Necroflux Day • (2009) • novelette by John Meaney
• The Persistence of Memory, or, This Space for Sale • (2009) • short story by Paul Park
• This Peaceable Land; or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe • (2009) • novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
• On the Human Plan • (2009) • short story by Jay Lake
• Technicolor • (2009) • novelette by John Langan
• Catalog • (2009) • short story by Eugene Mirabelli
• Crimes and Glory • [Jackaroo] • (2009) • novella by Paul J. McAuley [as by Paul McAuley]
• Eros, Philia, Agape • (2009) • novelette by Rachel Swirsky
• A Painter, a Sheep, and a Boa Constrictor • (2009) • short story by Nir Yaniv
• Glister • (2009) • short story by Dominic Green
• The Qualia Engine • (2009) • novelette by Damien Broderick
• The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew • (2009) • short story by Catherynne M. Valente
• Wife-Stealing Time • (2009) • novelette by R. Garcia y Robertson
• Images of Anna • (2009) • short story by Nancy Kress
• Mongoose • [Boojum] • (2009) • novelette by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
• Living Curiosities • (2009) • short story by Margo Lanagan
• The Death of Sugar Daddy • (2009) • short fiction by Toiya Kristen Finley
• Secret Identity • (2009) • novelette by Kelly Link
• Bespoke • (2009) • short story by Genevieve Valentine
• Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance • (2009) • novelette by John Kessel
• Biographies (The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2010) • essay by uncredited
• Recommended Reading (The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2010) • essay by uncredited