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• 11 • Introduction (The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eight) • essay by Jonathan Strahan
• 15 • Some Desperado • [The First Law Universe] • (2013) • short story by Joe Abercrombie
• 35 • Zero for Conduct • (2013) • novelette by Greg Egan
• 65 • Effigy Nights • (2013) • short story by Yoon Ha Lee
• 79 • Rosary and Goldenstar • (2013) • short story by Geoff Ryman
• 97 • The Sleeper and the Spindle • (2013) • novelette by Neil Gaiman
• 121 • Cave and Julia • (2013) • short story by M. John Harrison
• 135 • The Herons of Mer de l'Ouest • (2013) • short story by M. Bennardo
• 151 • Water • (2013) • short story by Ramez Naam
• 169 • The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling • (2013) • novelette by Ted Chiang
• 207 • The Ink Readers of Doi Saket • (2013) • short story by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (trans. of De inktlezers van Doi Saket 2012)
• 225 • Cherry Blossoms on the River of Souls • (2013) • short story by Richard Parks
• 243 • Rag and Bone • (2013) • novelette by Priya Sharma
• 265 • The Book Seller • [Central Station] • (2013) • novelette by Lavie Tidhar
• 295 • The Sun And I • (2013) • novelette by Tom Holt [as by K. J. Parker]
• 337 • The Promise of Space • (2013) • short story by James Patrick Kelly
• 349 • The Master Conjurer • (2013) • short story by Charlie Jane Anders
• 367 • The Pilgrim and the Angel • (2013) • short story by E. Lily Yu
• 379 • Entangled • (2013) • novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
• 409 • Fade to Gold • (2013) • short story by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
• 423 • Selkie Stories Are for Losers • (2013) • short story by Sofia Samatar
• 433 • In Metal, In Bone • (2013) • short story by An Owomoyela
• 449 • Kormak the Lucky • (2013) • novelette by Eleanor Arnason
• 493 • Sing • [Aino • 1] • (2013) • short story by Karin Tidbeck
• 509 • Social Services • (2013) • short story by Madeline Ashby
• 525 • The Road of Needles • (2013) • short story by
  Caitlín R. Kiernan^?Caitlin R. Kiernan
• 543 • Mystic Falls • (2013) • short story by Robert Reed
• 559 • The Queen of Night's Aria • (2013) • novelette by Ian McDonald (variant of The Queen of the Night's Aria)
• 591 • The Irish Astronaut • (2013) • novelette by Val Nolan