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• 9 • The Year in Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2008 • essay by Rich Horton
• 15 • 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss • (2008) • short story by Kij Johnson
• 25 • Shoggoths In Bloom • (2008) • novelette by Elizabeth Bear
• 42 • Glass • (2008) • short story by Daryl Gregory
• 46 • The Hiss of Escaping Air • (2008) • short story by Christopher Golden
• 59 • Araminta, or, The Wreck of the Amphidrake • (2008) • short story by Naomi Novik
• 75 • We Love Deena • (2008) • short story by Alice Sola Kim
• 87 • The Art of Alchemy • (2008) • novelette by Ted Kosmatka
• 104 • Falling Angel • (2008) • short story by Eugene Mirabelli
• 110 • The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross • (2008) • short story by Margo Lanagan
• 119 • King Pelles the Sure • (2008) • short story by Peter S. Beagle
• 128 • Character Flu • (2008) • short story by Robert Reed
• 131 • Gift from a Spring • (2008) • novelette by Delia Sherman
• 150 • The Region of Unlikeness • (2008) • short story by Rivka Galchen
• 164 • Daltharee • (2008) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
• 171 • The Ray-Gun: A Love Story • (2008) • novelette by James Alan Gardner
• 190 • The God of Au • [The God of Au Universe] • (2008) • novelette by Ann Leckie
• 215 • The Fantasy Jumper • (2008) • short story by Will McIntosh
• 222 • The Magician's House • (2008) • novelette by Meghan McCarron
• 239 • Balancing Accounts • (2008) • short story by James L. Cambias
• 255 • Suicide Drive • (2008) • short story by Charlie Jane Anders [as by Charlie Anders]
• 263 • The Small Door • (2008) • short story by Holly Phillips
• 276 • The Eyes of God • (2008) • short story by Peter Watts
• 284 • Firooz and His Brother • (2008) • short story by Alex Jeffers
• 293 • Infestation • (2008) • short story by Garth Nix
• 307 • A Water Matter • (2008) • novelette by Jay Lake
• 322 • The Golden Octopus • [Éireann] • (2008) • novelette by Beth Bernobich
• 352 • Blue Vervain Murder Ballad #2: Jack of Diamonds • (2008) • short story by Erik Amundsen
• 359 • The Road to Levinshir • [The Kingkiller Chronicle] • (2002) • novelette by Patrick Rothfuss
• 386 • Fixing Hanover • (2008) • short story by Jeff VanderMeer
• 398 • Boojum • [Boojum] • (2008) • short story by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
• 413 • The Difficulties of Evolution • (2008) • short story by Karen Heuler
• 418 • Catherine Drewe • [Jonathan Hamilton • 1] • (2008) • short story by Paul Cornell
• 433 • Silent As Dust • (2008) • short story by James Maxey
• 445 • Evil Robot Monkey • (2008) • short story by Mary Robinette Kowal
• 448 • If Angels Fight • (2008) • novelette by Richard Bowes
• 470 • Spiderhorse • (2008) • short fiction by Liz Williams
• 476 • The Tear • (2008) • novella by Ian McDonald
• 527 • Biographies (The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009 Edition) • essay by uncredited
• 535 • Recommended Reading (The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009 Edition) • essay by uncredited