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• 7 • Introduction: The Year in Fantasy (Fantasy: The Best of the Year: 2006 Edition) • essay by Rich Horton
• 11 • Pip and the Fairies • (2005) • short story by Theodora Goss
• 18 • Comber • (2005) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 27 • Three Urban Folk Tales • (2005) • short story by Eric Schaller
• 32 • Wax • [New Amsterdam] • (2005) • novelette by Elizabeth Bear
• 59 • The Emperor of Gondwanaland • (2005) • short story by Paul Di Filippo
• 75 • CommComm • (2005) • short story by George Saunders
• 95 • Five Ways Jane Austen Never Died • (2005) • short story by Samantha Henderson
• 106 • Fancy Bread • (2005) • short story by Gregory Feeley
• 118 • Sunbird • (2005) • novelette by Neil Gaiman
• 136 • The Secret of Broken Tickers • (2005) • short story by Joe Murphy
• 151 • On the Blindside • (2005) • short story by Sonya Taaffe
• 161 • Jane • (2005) • short story by Marc Laidlaw
• 171 • Is There Life After Rehab? • (2005) • short story by Pat Cadigan
• 187 • Two Hearts • [Last Unicorn] • (2005) • novelette by Peter S. Beagle
• 220 • Super-Villains • (2006) • short story by Michael Canfield
• 241 • Empty Places • [The Laws of Power / Tymon the Black Universe] • (2005) • short story by Richard Parks
• 263 • Invisible • (2005) • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 279 • By the Light of Tomorrow's Sun • (2005) • short story by Holly Phillips
• 292 • The Gist Hunter • [Henghis Hapthorn] • (2005) • novelette by Matthew Hughes