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• xiii • Summation: 2008 • (2009) • essay by Gardner Dozois
• 1 • Turing's Apples • (2008) • short story by Stephen Baxter
• 18 • From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled • (2008) • short story by Michael Swanwick (variant of From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled...)
• 36 • The Gambler • (2008) • novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• 57 • Boojum • [Boojum] • (2008) • short story by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
• 73 • The Six Directions of Space • (2008) • novella by Alastair Reynolds
• 122 • N-Words • (2008) • short story by Ted Kosmatka
• 136 • An Eligible Boy • [India 2047] • (2008) • novelette by Ian McDonald
• 159 • Shining Armour • (2008) • novelette by Dominic Green (variant of Shining Armor)
• 175 • The Hero • [Virga] • (2008) • novelette by Karl Schroeder
• 196 • Evil Robot Monkey • (2008) • short story by Mary Robinette Kowal
• 199 • Five Thrillers • (2008) • novelette by Robert Reed
• 236 • The Sky That Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black • (2008) • short story by Jay Lake
• 245 • Incomers • [The Quiet War] • (2008) • novelette by Paul J. McAuley
• 263 • Crystal Nights • (2008) • novelette by Greg Egan
• 284 • The Egg Man • (2008) • novelette by Mary Rosenblum
• 304 • His Master's Voice • (2008) • short story by Hannu Rajaniemi
• 315 • The Political Prisoner • (2008) • novella by Charles Coleman Finlay
• 369 • Balancing Accounts • (2008) • short story by James L. Cambias
• 385 • Special Economics • (2008) • novelette by Maureen F. McHugh
• 409 • Days of Wonder • (2008) • novelette by Geoff Ryman
• 441 • City of the Dead • [Jackaroo] • (2008) • novelette by Paul J. McAuley [as by Paul McAuley]
• 464 • The Voyage Out • [Buonarotti Transit] • (2007) • short story by Gwyneth Jones
• 480 • The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm • (2008) • novelette by Daryl Gregory
• 498 • G-Men • [The Enemy Within] • (2008) • novelette by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• 529 • The Erdmann Nexus • (2008) • novella by Nancy Kress
• 588 • Old Friends • (2008) • short story by Garth Nix
• 595 • The Ray-Gun: A Love Story • (2008) • novelette by James Alan Gardner
• 614 • Lester Young and the Jupiter's Moons' Blues • (2008) • novelette by Gord Sellar
• 642 • Butterfly, Falling at Dawn • [Universe of Xuya] • (2008) • novelette by Aliette de Bodard
• 662 • The Tear • (2008) • novella by Ian McDonald
• 713 • Honorable Mentions: 2008 • (2009) • essay by Gardner Dozois