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• ix • Preface (The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels) • essay by Gardner Dozois
• 1 • Sailing to Byzantium • (1985) • novella by Robert Silverberg
• 45 • Surfacing • (1988) • novella by Walter Jon Williams
• 89 • The Hemingway Hoax • (1990) • novella by Joe Haldeman
• 158 • Mr. Boy • (1990) • novella by James Patrick Kelly
• 204 • Beggars in Spain • [Sleepless] • (1991) • novella by Nancy Kress
• 261 • Griffin's Egg • (1991) • novella by Michael Swanwick
• 318 • Outnumbering the Dead • (1990) • novella by Frederik Pohl
• 379 • Forgiveness Day • [Yeowe and Werel • 2] • (1994) • novella by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 418 • The Cost to Be Wise • (1996) • novella by Maureen F. McHugh
• 455 • Oceanic • (1998) • novella by Greg Egan
• 491 • Tendeléo's Story • [Chaga] • (2000) • novella by Ian McDonald
• 542 • New Light on the Drake Equation • (2001) • novella by Ian R. MacLeod
• 584 • Turquoise Days • [Revelation Space] • (2002) • novella by Alastair Reynolds