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