The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 23rd Annual Collection (151 page)

Jim Aikin, “Leaving the Station,”
Asimov’s
, December.

Tim Akers, “A Soul Stitched to Iron,”
Solaris Book of SF 3.

Neal Asher, “Shell Game,”
New Space Opera 2.

Kage Baker, “Are You Afflicted with Dragons?,”
The Dragon Book.

_____, “The Green Bird,”
Songs of the Dying Earth.

_____, “The Women of Nell Gwynne’s,”
Subterranean Press.

Peter M. Ball, “Horn,”
Twelfth Planet Press.

_____, “To Dream of Stars: An Astronomer’s Lament,”
Apex Magazine
, October.

Elliott Bangs, “This Must Be the Place,”
Strange Horizons
, 2/2
.

John Barnes, “The Lost Princess Man,”
New Space Opera 2.

_____, “Things Undone,”
JBU
, December.

Kelly Barnhill, “Open the Door and the Light Pours Through,”
Clockwork Phoenix 2.

Laird Barron, “Catch Hell,”
Lovecraft Unbound.

_____, “Strappado,”
Poe.

William Barton, “The Sea of Dreams,”
Asimov’s
, October/November.

Christopher Barzak, “The Ghost Hunter’s Beautiful Daughter,”
Asimov’s
, October/November.

Stephen Baxter, “Artifacts,”
Solaris Book of SF 3.

_____, “Earth II,”
Asimov’s
, July.

_____, “Formidable Caress,”
Analog
, December.

_____, “Kelvin 2.0,”
New Scientist
, 16 September.

_____, “The Phoebean Egg,”
Postscripts
20/21.

_____, “Starfall,”
PS Publishing.

_____, “Tempest 43,”
We Think, Therefore We Are.

_____, “The Unblinking Eye,”
Other Earths.

Peter S. Beagle, “Oakland Dragon Blues,”
The Dragon Book.

_____, “Slight of Hand,”
Eclipse Three.

_____, “Up the Down Beanstalk: A Wife Remembers,”
Troll’s Eye View.

_____, “Vanishing,”
OSC’sIMShow
, March.

Elizabeth Bear, “The Horrid Glory of Its Wings,” Tor.com.

_____, “Snow Dragons,”
Subterranean
, Summer.

_____, “Swell,”
Eclipse Three.

Chris Beckett, “Atomic Truth,”
Asimov’s
, April/May.

_____, “The Famous Cave Paintings on Isolus 9,”
Postscripts
19.

Gregory Benford, “Paradise Afternoon,” Flurb 8.

Judith Berman, “Pelago,”
Asimov’s
, February.

Beth Bernobich, “Ars Memoriae,”
PS Publishing.

Terry Bisson, “Corona CenturionTM FAQ,”
F&SF
, June/July.

James Blaylock, “The Dry Spell,”
Subterranean
, Winter.

Michael Blumlein, “California Burning,”
Asimov’s
, August.

Leah Bobet, “The Parable of the Shower,”
Lone Star Stories
, 1 June.

_____, “Six,” Clockwork
Phoenix 2.

Desirina Boskovich, “Celadon,”
Clarkesworld
, January.

Richard Bowes, “I Needs Must Part, the Policeman Said,”
F&SF
, October/November.

_____, “The Office of Doom,”
Lovecraft Unbound.

Marie Brennan, “Letter Found in a Chest Belonging to the Marquis de Monsseraille,

Following the Death of That Worthy Individual,”
Abyss & Apex 29.

_____, “Once a Goddess,”
Clockwork Phoenix 2.

Damien Broderick, “Flowers of Asphodel,”
Asimov’s
, October/November.

_____, “The Qualia Engine,”
Asimov’s
, August.

_____, “The Ruined Queen of Harvest World,” Tor.com.

Keith Brooke, “Sweats,”
We Think, Therefore We Are.

Eric Brown, “Cold Testing,”
Asimov’s
, June.

_____, “Gilbert and Edward on Mars,”
PS Publishing.

_____, “Salvage Rites,”
We Think, Therefore We Are.

_____, “Starship Fall,”
NewCon Press.

Rachel Manija Brown, “River of Heaven,”
Strange Horizons
, 6/29.

Chaz Brunchley, “White Skies,”
When It Changed.

Tobias S. Bucknell, “Placa Del Fuego,”
Clarkesworld 34.

Karl Bunker, “Murder,”
Abyss & Apex
29.

Stephanie Burgis, “True Names,”
Strange Horizons
, 11/9.

Chris Butler, “The Festival of Tethselem,”
Interzone
224.

Pat Cadigan, “Don’t Mention Madagascar,”
Eclipse Three.

_____, “Truth and Bone,”
Poe.

Paul Carlson, “Mirror Girl,”
Abyss & Apex, 32.

Michael Cassutt, “The Last Apostle,”
Asimov’s
, July.

Jason K. Chapman, “Brief Candle,”
Clarkesworld
, November.

_____, “The Singers of Rhodes,”
Panverse One.

Suzy McKee Charnas, “Lowland Sea,” Poe.

Robert R. Chase, “Five Thousand Light Years from Birdland,”
Asimov’s
, January.

Catherine Cheek, “Voice Like a Cello,”
Fantasy
, May.

J. Kathleen Cheney, “Early Winter, Near Jenli Village,”
Fantasy
, April.

Eric Choi, “Another’s Trea sure,”
Footsteps.

Geffrey W. Cole, “Teaching Bigfoot to Read,”
Clarkesworld
, January.

Glen Cook, “The Good Magician,”
Songs of the Dying Earth.

Brenda Cooper, “In Their Garden,”
Asimov’s
, September.

_____, “Sailors in a Sea of Suns,”
Footsteps.

Bruce Coville, “After the Third Kiss,”
The Dragon Book.

Albert E. Cowdrey, “Bandits of the Trace,” F&SF, October/November.

_____, “The Private Eye,”
F&SF
, August/September.

_____, “Seafarer’s Blood,”
F&SF
, January.

Dave Creek, “Zheng He and the Dragon,”
Analog
, January/February.

Ian Creasey, “Digging for Paradise,”
Realms of Fantasy
, August.

_____, “The Report of a Dubious Creature,”
OSCIMS
, November.

Benjamin Crowell, “A Large Bucket, and Accidental Godlike Mastery of Spacetime,”
Asimov’s
, December.

_____, “The Rising Waters,” Strange Horizons, 4 and 11 May.

Don D’Ammassa, “Duck and Cover,”
Analog
, July/August.

Dennis Danvers, “Healing Benjamin,”
Realms of Fantasy
, August.

Colin P. Davies, “The Certainty Principle,”
Asimov’s
, February.

Rebecca Day, “The Urn of Ravalos,”
OSC’sIMShow
, March.

Aliette de Bodard, “After the Fire,”
Apex Magazine
, November.

_____, “Dancing for the Monsoon,”
Abyss & Apex
, 30.

_____, “In the Age of Iron and Ashes,”
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
, 31 December.

_____, “Ys,” Interzone 222.

Paul Di Filippo, “The New Cyberiad,”
We Think, Therefore We Are.

_____, “Providence,”
Solaris Book of SF 3.

_____, “Yes We Have No Bananas,”
Eclipse Three.

Cory Doctorow, “To Go Boldly,”
New Space Opera 2.

Terry Dowling, “The Copsy Door,”
Songs of the Dying Earth.

_____, “The Library,” X6.

Brendan DuBois, “Illusions of Tranquility,”
F&SF
, October/November.

Alexandra Duncan, “Bad Matter,”
F&SF
, October/November.

Andy Duncan, “The Dragaman’s Bride,”
The Dragon Book.

_____, “The Night Cache,”
PS Publishing.

Scott Edleman, “Glitch,”
Solaris Book of SF 3.

_____, “The Only Wish Ever to Come True,”
Talebones
, Summer.

_____, “The World Breaks,”
Postscript
19.

Sarah L. Edwards, “Lady of the White-Spired City,”
Interzone
222
.

_____, “The Tinyman and Caroline,”
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
, 21 May.

Greg Egan, “Hot Rock,”
Crystal Nights.

Phyllis Eisenstein, “The Last Golden Thread,”
Songs of the Dying Earth.

Carol Emshwiller, “The Bird Paint er in Time of War,”
Asimov’s
, February.

Gemma Files & Stephen J. Barringer, “each thing I show you is a piece of my death,”

Clockwork Phoenix 2.

Charles Coleman Finlay, “The Minuteman’s Watch,”
F&SF
, January.

_____, “The Texas Bake Sale,”
F&SF
, February.

Michael F. Flynn, “Where the Winds Are All Asleep,”
Analog
, October.

Jeffrey Ford, “The Coral Heart,”
Eclipse Three.

Eugie Foster, “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast,”

Interzone
220.

Karen Joy Fowler, “The Pelican Bar,”
Eclipse Three.

Ben Francisco, “Tio Gilberto and the Twenty-Seven Ghosts,”
Realms of Fantasy
, October.

Gregory Frost, “The Final Act,”
Poe.

Julie Frost, “Fortune of Soldiers,”
Cosmos
, April/May.

Adam Corbin Fusco, “Sails Above Greensea,”
Realms of Fantasy
, April.

Diana Gabaldon & Samuel Sykes, “Humane Killer,”
The Dragon Book.

Neil Gaiman, “An Invocation of Incuriosity,”
Songs of the Dying Earth.

R. Garcia y Robertson, “SinBad the Sand Sailor,”
Asimov’s
, July.

_____, “Wife-Stealing Time,” Asimov’s, October/November.

Harry Garfield, “Stratosphere,”
F&SF
, April/May.

Sara Genge, “As Women Fight,”
Asimov’s
, December.

David Gerrold, “Ganny Knits a Spaceship,”
Jim Baen’s Universe
, August.

Carolyn Ives Gilman, “Economancer,”
F&SF
, June/July.

Molly Gloss, “The Visited Man,”
Eclipse Three.

Ari Goelman, “Bird of Paradise,”
Talebones
, Summer.

Lisa Goldstein, “Away From Here,”
Asimov’s
, September.

Theodora Goss, “Ceilla’s Story,”
Other Earths.

_____, “The Puma,” Apex Magazine, March.

Steven Gould, “Bugs in the Arroyo,” Tor.com.

Eric Gregory, “Salt’s Father,”
Strange Horizons
, 8/3.

_____, “The Transmigration of Aishwarya Desai,”
Interzone
223.

Christopher Green, “A Hundredth Name,”
Abyss & Apex
, 31.

Dominic Green, “Coat of Many Colours,”
Interzone
223.

_____, “Glister,”
Interzone
223.

Robert Grossbach, “An Idea Whose Time Has Come,”
Analog
, October.

Eileen Gunn & Michael Swanwick, “The Armies of Elfland,”
Asimov’s
, April/May.

Paul Haines, “Wives,”
X6
.

Joe Haldeman, “Never Blood Enough,”
F&SF
, October/November.

Warren Hammond, “Carnival Night,”
Solaris Book of SF 3.

Elizabeth Hand, “The Far Shore,”
F&SF
, October/November.

_____, “The Return of the Fire Witch,”
Songs of the Dying Earth.

Alex Hardison, “Clouds in the Night,”
Flurb 7.

Gail Hareven, “The Slows,”
The New Yorker
, 7 May.

Andy Heizler, “The Broken Hourglass,”
Cosmos
, December/January.

Samantha Henderson, “Chandra’s Game,”
Lone Star Stories
, 1 Feburary.

_____, “East of Chula Vista,”
Abyss & Apex
29.