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• xiii • Summation: 2004 • essay by Gardner Dozois
• 1 • Inappropriate Behavior • (2004) • novelette by Pat Murphy
• 27 • Start the Clock • (2004) • short story by Benjamin Rosenbaum
• 42 • The Third Party • (2004) • novelette by David Moles
• 72 • The Voluntary State • [The Voluntary State] • (2004) • novelette by Christopher Rowe
• 105 • Shiva in Shadow • (2004) • novella by Nancy Kress
• 153 • The People of Sand and Slag • (2004) • novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• 172 • The Clapping Hands of God • (2004) • novelette by Michael F. Flynn
• 214 • Tourism • (2004) • short story by M. John Harrison
• 228 • Scout's Honor • (2004) • short story by Terry Bisson
• 244 • Men Are Trouble • (2004) • novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• 283 • Mother Aegypt • [The Company Short Fiction] • (2004) • novella by Kage Baker
• 348 • Synthetic Serendipity • (2004) • short story by Vernor Vinge
• 366 • Skin Deep • (2004) • short story by Mary Rosenblum
• 389 • Delhi • (2004) • short story by Vandana Singh
• 405 • The Tribes of Bela • [Colonel Kohn] • (2004) • novella by Albert E. Cowdrey
• 465 • Sitka • (2004) • short story by William Sanders
• 478 • Leviathan Wept • (2004) • short story by Daniel Abraham
• 499 • The Defenders • (2004) • short story by Colin P. Davies
• 504 • Mayflower II • [Xeelee] • (2004) • novella by Stephen Baxter
• 562 • Riding the White Bull • (2004) • novelette by
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• 588 • Falling Star • (2004) • short story by Brendan DuBois
• 603 • The Dragons of Summer Gulch • (2004) • novelette by Robert Reed
• 628 • The Ocean of the Blind • (2004) • short story by James L. Cambias
• 649 • The Garden: A Hwarhath Science Fictional Romance • [Hwarhath] • (2004) • novelette by Eleanor Arnason
• 688 • Footvote • (2004) • short story by Peter F. Hamilton
• 706 • Sisyphus and the Stranger • (2004) • short story by Paul Di Filippo
• 718 • Ten Sigmas • (2004) • short story by Paul Melko
• 726 • Investments • [Dread Empire's Fall] • (2004) • novella by Walter Jon Williams
• 811 • Honorable Mentions: 2004 • essay by Gardner Dozois