Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • Introduction (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three) • (2009) • essay by Jonathan Strahan
• 5 • Exhalation • (2008) • short story by Ted Chiang
• 17 • Shoggoths In Bloom • (2008) • novelette by Elizabeth Bear
• 35 • Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel • (2008) • novelette by Peter S. Beagle
• 63 • Fixing Hanover • (2008) • short story by Jeff VanderMeer
• 75 • The Gambler • (2008) • novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• 97 • The Dust Assassin • [India 2047] • (2008) • novelette by Ian McDonald
• 119 • Virgin • juvenile • (2008) • short story by Holly Black
• 127 • Pride and Prometheus • (2008) • novelette by John Kessel
• 157 • The Thought War • (2008) • short story by Paul J. McAuley [as by Paul McAuley]
• 163 • Beyond the Sea Gates of the Scholar Pirates of Sarsköe • [Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz] • (2009) • novelette by Garth Nix (variant of Beyond the Sea Gate of the Scholar-Pirates of Sarsköe 2008)
• 189 • The Small Door • (2008) • short story by Holly Phillips
• 203 • Turing's Apples • (2008) • short story by Stephen Baxter
• 219 • The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates • (2008) • short story by Stephen King
• 227 • Five Thrillers • (2008) • novelette by Robert Reed
• 265 • The Magician's House • (2008) • novelette by Meghan McCarron
• 283 • Goblin Music • (2008) • short story by Joan Aiken
• 293 • Machine Maid • (2008) • novelette by Margo Lanagan
• 309 • The Art of Alchemy • (2008) • novelette by Ted Kosmatka
• 327 • 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss • (2008) • short story by Kij Johnson
• 337 • Marry the Sun • (2008) • short story by Rachel Swirsky
• 351 • Crystal Nights • (2008) • novelette by Greg Egan
• 373 • His Master's Voice • (2008) • short story by Hannu Rajaniemi
• 385 • Special Economics • (2008) • novelette by Maureen F. McHugh
• 409 • Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter's Personal Account • (2008) • short story by M. Rickert
• 417 • From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled ... • (2008) • short story by Michael Swanwick
• 435 • If Angels Fight • (2008) • novelette by Richard Bowes
• 459 • The Doom of Love in Small Spaces • (2008) • short story by Ken Scholes
• 471 • Pretty Monsters • (2008) • novelette by Kelly Link
• 511 • Copyright Acknowledgements (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three) • (2009) • essay by uncredited