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• Foreword (The Mammoth Book of The Best of The Best New SF) • (2008) • essay by Robert Silverberg
• Preface (The Mammoth Book of The Best of The Best New SF) • (2008) • essay by Gardner Dozois
• Blood Music • (1983) • novelette by Greg Bear
• A Cabin on the Coast • (1984) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• Salvador • (1984) • short story by Lucius Shepard
• Trinity • (1984) • novella by Nancy Kress
• Flying Saucer Rock and Roll • (1989) • novelette by Howard Waldrop (variant of Flying Saucer Rock & Roll 1985)
• Dinner in Audoghast • (1985) • short story by Bruce Sterling
• Roadside Rescue • (1985) • short story by Pat Cadigan
• Snow • (1985) • short story by John Crowley
• The Winter Market • (1985) • novelette by William Gibson
• The Pure Product • (1986) • novelette by John Kessel
• Stable Strategies for Middle Management • (1988) • short story by Eileen Gunn
• Kirinyaga • [Kirinyaga • 2] • (1988) • novelette by Mike Resnick
• Tales from the Venia Woods • [Roma Eterna] • (1989) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• Bears Discover Fire • (1990) • short story by Terry Bisson
• Even the Queen • (1992) • short story by Connie Willis
• Guest of Honor • (1991) • novelette by Robert Reed
• None So Blind • (1994) • short story by Joe Haldeman
• Mortimer Gray's History of Death • [Emortality] • (1995) • novella by Brian Stableford (variant of Mortimer Gray's "History of Death")
• The Lincoln Train • (1995) • short story by Maureen F. McHugh
• Wang's Carpets • (1995) • novelette by Greg Egan
• Coming of Age in Karhide • [Hainish] • (1995) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Dead • (1996) • short story by Michael Swanwick
• Recording Angel • (1996) • short story by Ian McDonald
• A Dry, Quiet War • (1996) • novelette by Tony Daniel
• The Undiscovered • (1997) • novelette by William Sanders
• Second Skin • [The Quiet War] • (1997) • short story by Paul J. McAuley
• Story of Your Life • (1998) • novella by Ted Chiang
• People Came from Earth • (1999) • short story by Stephen Baxter
• The Wedding Album • [Cathy] • (1999) • novella by David Marusek
• 10 to 16 to 1 • (1999) • novelette by James Patrick Kelly (variant of
  10¹⁶ to 1^?10 to the power 16 to 1
  )
• Daddy's World • (1999) • novelette by Walter Jon Williams
• The Real World • [Silurian Tales] • (2000) • novelette by Steven Utley
• Have Not Have • (2001) • novelette by Geoff Ryman
• Lobsters • [Macx Family • 1] • (2001) • novelette by Charles Stross
• Breathmoss • [Breathmoss Universe] • (2002) • novella by Ian R. MacLeod
• Lambing Season • (2002) • short story by Molly Gloss
• The Fluted Girl • (2003) • novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Footvote • (2004) • short story by Peter F. Hamilton
• Zima Blue • (2005) • novelette by Alastair Reynolds