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• Acknowledgments (The Year's Best Science Fiction Twenty-Third Annual Collection) • (2006) • essay by Gardner Dozois
• Summation: 2005 • (2006) • essay by Gardner Dozois
• The Little Goddess • [India 2047] • (2005) • novella by Ian McDonald
• The Calorie Man • [The Windup Universe] • (2005) • novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Beyond the Aquila Rift • (2005) • novelette by Alastair Reynolds
• Second Person, Present Tense • (2005) • novelette by Daryl Gregory
• The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Back from the Stars • (2005) • short story by Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold (variant of The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Home from the Stars)
• Triceratops Summer • (2005) • short story by Michael Swanwick
• Camouflage • [The Great Ship Universe] • (2005) • novella by Robert Reed
• A Case of Consilience • (2005) • short story by Ken MacLeod
• The Blemmye's Strategem • (2005) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
• Amba • (2005) • novelette by William Sanders
• Search Engine • (2005) • novelette by Mary Rosenblum
• Piccadilly Circus • [Outsiders] • (2005) • short story by Chris Beckett
• In the Quake Zone • (2005) • novella by David Gerrold
• La Malcontenta • (2005) • short story by Liz Williams
• The Children of Time • (2005) • short story by Stephen Baxter
• Little Faces • [Little Faces] • (2005) • novelette by Vonda N. McIntyre
• Comber • (2005) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• Audubon in Atlantis • [Lost Continent of Atlantis] • (2005) • novella by Harry Turtledove
• Deus Ex Homine • (2005) • short story by Hannu Rajaniemi
• The Great Caruso • (2005) • short story by Steven Popkes
• Softly Spoke the Gabbleduck • [Polity Universe] • (2005) • novelette by Neal Asher
• Zima Blue • (2005) • novelette by Alastair Reynolds
• Planet of the Amazon Women • (2005) • novelette by David Moles
• The Clockwork Atom Bomb • (2005) • short story by Dominic Green
• Gold Mountain • [Celestial Empire] • (2005) • short story by Chris Roberson
• The Fulcrum • [Buonarotti Transit] • (2005) • novelette by Gwyneth Jones
• Mayfly • (2005) • short story by Derryl Murphy and Peter Watts
• Two Dreams on Trains • (2005) • short story by Elizabeth Bear
• Angel of Light • (2005) • short story by Joe Haldeman
• Burn • (2005) • novella by James Patrick Kelly
• Honourable Mentions: 2005 • (2006) • essay by Gardner Dozois (variant of Honorable Mentions: 2005)