Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • Introduction (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four) • (2010) • essay by Jonathan Strahan
• 7 • It Takes Two • (2009) • novelette by Nicola Griffith
• 33 • Three Twilight Tales • (2009) • short story by Jo Walton
• 45 • The Night Cache • (2009) • novelette by Andy Duncan
• 69 • The Island • [Sunflower Cycle] • (2009) • novelette by Peter Watts
• 99 • Ferryman • (2009) • short story by Margo Lanagan
• 105 • "A Wild and a Wicked Youth" • [The World of Riverside] • (2009) • novelette by Ellen Kushner
• 125 • The Pelican Bar • (2009) • short story by Karen Joy Fowler
• 139 • Spar • (2009) • short story by Kij Johnson
• 145 • Going Deep • [Mariska Volochkova] • (2009) • novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• 159 • The Coldest Girl in Coldtown • juvenile • [The Coldest Girl in Coldtown] • (2009) • novelette by Holly Black
• 175 • Zeppelin City • (2009) • novelette by Eileen Gunn and Michael Swanwick
• 205 • Dragon's Teeth • [Borea • 2] • (2009) • novelette by Alex Irvine
• 225 • This Wind Blowing, and This Tide • (2009) • novelette by Damien Broderick
• 243 • By Moonlight • (2009) • novelette by Peter S. Beagle
• 265 • Black Swan • (2009) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
• 285 • As Women Fight • (2009) • short story by Sara Genge
• 299 • The Cinderella Game • (2009) • short story by Kelly Link
• 307 • Formidable Caress: A Tale of Old Earth • [Old Earth] • (2009) • novelette by Stephen Baxter (variant of Formidable Caress)
• 327 • Blocked • (2009) • short story by Geoff Ryman
• 343 • Truth and Bone • (2009) • novelette by Pat Cadigan
• 373 • Eros, Philia, Agape • (2009) • novelette by Rachel Swirsky
• 397 • The Motorman's Coat • (2009) • short story by John Kessel
• 407 • Mongoose • [Boojum] • (2009) • novelette by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
• 425 • Echoes of Aurora • (2009) • short story by Ellen Klages
• 435 • Before My Last Breath • (2009) • short story by Robert Reed
• 451 • JoBoy • (2009) • short story by Diana Wynne Jones
• 459 • Utriusque Cosmi • (2009) • novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
• 477 • A Delicate Architecture • (2009) • short story by Catherynne M. Valente
• 485 • The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles • (2009) • novelette by Kij Johnson
• 513 • Recommended Reading (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four) • (2010) • essay by Jonathan Strahan