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• Summation: 2009 • (2010) • essay by Gardner Dozois
• Utriusque Cosmi • (2009) • novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
• A Story, with Beans • [7th Sigma] • (2009) • short story by Steven Gould
• Under the Shouting Sky • (2009) • short story by Karl Bunker
• Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance • (2009) • novelette by John Kessel
• Useless Things • (2009) • short story by Maureen F. McHugh
• Black Swan • (2009) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
• Crimes and Glory • [Jackaroo] • (2009) • novella by Paul J. McAuley
• Seventh Fall • (2009) • novelette by Alex Irvine [as by Alexander Irvine]
• Butterfly Bomb • (2009) • short story by Dominic Green
• Infinities • (2008) • novelette by Vandana Singh
• Things Undone • (2009) • novelette by John Barnes
• On the Human Plan • (2009) • short story by Jay Lake
• The Island • [Sunflower Cycle] • (2009) • novelette by Peter Watts
• The Integrity of the Chain • [Earth (Lavie Tidhar)] • (2009) • short story by Lavie Tidhar
• Lion Walk • (2009) • novelette by Mary Rosenblum
• Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction • [Small Change] • (2009) • short story by Jo Walton
• Three Leaves of Aloe • (2009) • novelette by Rand B. Lee
• Mongoose • [Boojum] • (2009) • novelette by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
• Paradiso Lost • (2009) • novella by Albert E. Cowdrey
• It Takes Two • (2009) • novelette by Nicola Griffith
• Blocked • (2009) • short story by Geoff Ryman
• Solace • (2009) • short story by James Van Pelt
• Act One • (2009) • novella by Nancy Kress
• Twilight of the Gods • (2009) • novelette by John C. Wright
• Blood Dauber • (2009) • novelette by Ted Kosmatka and Michael Poore
• This Wind Blowing, and This Tide • (2009) • novelette by Damien Broderick
• Hair • (2009) • novelette by Adam Roberts
• Before My Last Breath • (2009) • short story by Robert Reed
• One of Our Bastards Is Missing • [Jonathan Hamilton • 2] • (2009) • novelette by Paul Cornell
• Edison's Frankenstein • (2009) • novelette by Chris Roberson
• Erosion • (2009) • short story by Ian Creasey
• Vishnu at the Cat Circus • [India 2047] • (2009) • novella by Ian McDonald
• Honorable Mentions: 2009 • (2010) • essay by Gardner Dozois