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• xiii • Summation: 2009 • essay by Gardner Dozois
• 1 • Utriusque Cosmi • (2009) • novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
• 18 • A Story, with Beans • [7th Sigma] • (2009) • short story by Steven Gould
• 25 • Under the Shouting Sky • (2009) • short story by Karl Bunker
• 32 • Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance • (2009) • novelette by John Kessel
• 55 • Useless Things • (2009) • short story by Maureen F. McHugh
• 68 • Black Swan • (2009) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
• 86 • Crimes and Glory • [Jackaroo] • (2009) • novella by Paul J. McAuley [as by Paul McAuley]
• 127 • Seventh Fall • (2009) • novelette by Alex Irvine [as by Alexander Irvine]
• 141 • Butterfly Bomb • (2009) • short story by Dominic Green
• 154 • Infinities • (2008) • novelette by Vandana Singh
• 175 • Things Undone • (2009) • novelette by John Barnes
• 205 • On the Human Plan • (2009) • short story by Jay Lake
• 213 • The Island • [Sunflower Cycle] • (2009) • novelette by Peter Watts
• 240 • The Integrity of the Chain • [Earth (Lavie Tidhar)] • (2009) • short story by Lavie Tidhar
• 246 • Lion Walk • (2009) • novelette by Mary Rosenblum
• 274 • Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction • [Small Change] • (2009) • short story by Jo Walton
• 282 • Three Leaves of Aloe • (2009) • novelette by Rand B. Lee
• 296 • Mongoose • [Boojum] • (2009) • novelette by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
• 312 • Paradiso Lost • (2009) • novella by Albert E. Cowdrey
• 353 • It Takes Two • (2009) • novelette by Nicola Griffith
• 377 • Blocked • (2009) • short story by Geoff Ryman
• 391 • Solace • (2009) • short story by James Van Pelt
• 404 • Act One • (2009) • novella by Nancy Kress
• 441 • Twilight of the Gods • (2009) • novelette by John C. Wright
• 459 • Blood Dauber • (2009) • novelette by Ted Kosmatka and Michael Poore
• 486 • This Wind Blowing, and This Tide • (2009) • novelette by Damien Broderick
• 502 • Hair • (2009) • novelette by Adam Roberts
• 521 • Before My Last Breath • (2009) • short story by Robert Reed
• 535 • One of Our Bastards Is Missing • [Jonathan Hamilton • 2] • (2009) • novelette by Paul Cornell
• 553 • Edison's Frankenstein • (2009) • novelette by Chris Roberson
• 567 • Erosion • (2009) • short story by Ian Creasey
• 577 • Vishnu at the Cat Circus • [India 2047] • (2009) • novella by Ian McDonald
• 633 • Honorable Mentions: 2009 • essay by Gardner Dozois