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• 11 • Introduction (The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2012 ) • (2012) • essay by Rich Horton
• 15 • Ghostweight • (2011) • novelette by Yoon Ha Lee
• 34 • The Sandal-Bride • (2011) • short story by Genevieve Valentine
• 44 • The Adakian Eagle • (2011) • novella by Bradley Denton
• 99 • The Sighted Watchmaker • (2011) • short story by Vylar Kaftan
• 107 • The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland, for a Little While • juvenile • [Fairyland] • (2012) • novelette by Catherynne M. Valente (variant of The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland — For a Little While 2011)
• 130 • Walking Stick Fires • (2011) • short story by Alan DeNiro
• 143 • Late Bloomer • (2011) • novelette by Suzy McKee Charnas
• 162 • The Choice • [Jackaroo] • (2011) • novelette by Paul J. McAuley [as by Paul McAuley]
• 198 • East of Furious • (2011) • novelette by Jonathan Carroll
• 213 • Martian Heart • (2011) • short story by John Barnes
• 227 • Pug • (2011) • short story by Theodora Goss
• 239 • Rampion • (2011) • novella by Alexandra Duncan
• 278 • "And Weep Like Alexander" • (2011) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 282 • Widows in the World • (2011) • novelette by Gavin J. Grant
• 308 • Younger Women • (2011) • short story by Karen Joy Fowler
• 315 • Canterbury Hollow • (2011) • short story by Chris Lawson
• 326 • The Summer People • (2011) • novelette by Kelly Link
• 349 • Mulberry Boys • (2011) • short story by Margo Lanagan
• 364 • The Silver Wind • [Martin Newland] • (2011) • novelette by Nina Allan
• 397 • Choose Your Own Adventure • (2011) • short story by Kat Howard
• 401 • A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong • (2011) • novella by Tom Holt [as by K. J. Parker]
• 432 • Woman Leaves Room • (2011) • short story by Robert Reed
• 439 • My Chivalric Fiasco • (2011) • short story by George Saunders
• 446 • The Last Sophia • (2011) • short story by C. S. E. Cooney
• 457 • Some of Them Closer • (2011) • short story by Marissa Lingen
• 467 • Fields of Gold • (2011) • novelette by Rachel Swirsky
• 487 • The Smell of Orange Groves • [Central Station] • (2011) • short story by Lavie Tidhar
• 499 • The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees • (2011) • short story by E. Lily Yu
• 507 • The Man Who Bridged the Mist • (2011) • novella by Kij Johnson
• 563 • Biographies (The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2012) • (2012) • essay by uncredited