Contents (view Concise Listing)

• xiii • Introduction (Year's Best SF 15) • essay by Kathryn Cramer and David G. Hartwell
• 1 • Infinities • (2008) • novelette by Vandana Singh
• 35 • This Peaceable Land; or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe • (2009) • novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
• 65 • The Unstrung Zither • (2009) • novelette by Yoon Ha Lee
• 91 • Black Swan • (2009) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
• 119 • Exegesis • (2009) • short story by Nancy Kress
• 125 • Erosion • (2009) • short story by Ian Creasey
• 141 • Collision • [Buonarotti Transit] • (2009) • short story by Gwyneth Jones
• 155 • Donovan Sent Us • (2009) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 173 • The Calculus Plague • (2009) • short story by Marissa Lingen [as by Marissa K. Lingen]
• 181 • The Island • [Sunflower Cycle] • (2009) • novelette by Peter Watts
• 222 • One of Our Bastards Is Missing • [Jonathan Hamilton • 2] • (2009) • novelette by Paul Cornell
• 251 • Lady of the White-Spired City • (2009) • short story by Sarah L. Edwards
• 271 • The Highway Code • (2009) • novelette by Brian Stableford
• 292 • On the Destruction of Copenhagen by the War-Machines of the Merfolk • (2009) • short story by Peter M. Ball
• 299 • The Fixation • (2009) • short story by Alastair Reynolds
• 318 • In Their Garden • (2009) • short story by Brenda Cooper
• 328 • Blocked • (2009) • short story by Geoff Ryman
• 349 • The Last Apostle • (2009) • short story by Michael Cassutt
• 373 • Another Life • (2009) • novelette by Charles Oberndorf
• 407 • The Consciousness Problem • (2009) • short story by Mary Robinette Kowal
• 427 • Tempest 43 • (2009) • novelette by Stephen Baxter
• 447 • Bespoke • (2009) • short story by Genevieve Valentine
• 457 • Attitude Adjustment • (2009) • short story by Eric James Stone
• 470 • Edison's Frankenstein • (2009) • novelette by Chris Roberson