The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 25 (Mammoth Books) (158 page)

Glen Cook, “Shadow Thieves”,
Down These Strange Streets.

———, “Smelling Danger: A Black Company Story”,
Subterreanean Dark Fantasy 2.

Matthew Cook, “Insha’allah”,
Interzone 235.

S. C. E. Cooney, “The Last Sophia”,
Strange Horizons,
3/11.

Albert E. Cowdrey, “The Black Mountain”,
F&SF,
May/June.

———, “The Bogle”,
F&SF,
January/February.

———, “How Peter Met Pan”,
F&SF,
November/December.

———, “Scatter My Ashes”,
F&SF,
March/April.

———, “Where Have All the Young Men Gone?”,
F&SF,
September/October.

Ian Creasey, “I Was Nearly Your Mother”,
Asimov’s,
March.

———, “The Odor of Sanctity”,
Asimov’s,
September.

John Crowley, “And Go Like This”,
Naked City.

Leah Cypess, “Twelvers”,
Asimov’s,
July.

Don D’Ammassa, “The Buddy System”,
Analog,
November.

———, “Martyrs”,
Panverse Three.

Colin P. Davies, “Fighter”,
Asimov’s,
June.

Aliette de Bodard, “Exodus Tides”,
OSCIMS,
April.

———, “Shipbirth”,
Asimov’s,
February.

Michael J. De Luca, “The Nine-Tailed Cat”,
Beneath Ceaseless Skies,
June.

Bradley Denton, “The Adakian Eagle”,
Down These Strange Streets.

Paul Di Filippo, “Farmearth”,
Welcome to the Greenhouse.

———, “A Pocketful of Faces”,
F&SF,
March/April.

———, “Specter-Bombing the Beer Goggles”,
TRSF.

———, “Sweet Spots”,
Solaris Rising.

Cory Doctorow, “The Brave Little Toaster”,
TRSF.

———, “Martian Chronicles”,
Life on Mars.

Alexandra Duncan, “Rampion”,
F&SF,
May/June.

Andy Duncan, “Slow as a Bullet”,
Eclipse Four.

Thoraiya Dyer, “Breaking the Ice”,
Cosmos,
March.

Carol Emshwiller, “The New and Perfect Man”,
Postscripts 24/25.

David Farland, “Against Eternity”,
Lightspeed,
October.

K. M. Ferebee, “Seven Spells to Sever the Heart”,
Fantasy,
November.

Sheila Finch, “The Evening and the Morning”,
F&SF,
March/April.

Michael F. Flynn, “The Frog Prince”,
Analog,
January/February.

Jeffrey Ford, “The Double of My Double Is Not My Double”,
Eclipse Four.

Eugie Foster, “Black Swan, White Swan”,
End of an Aeon.

Karen Joy Fowler, “Younger Women”,
Subterranean,
Summer.

Esther M. Friesner, “The One That Got Away”,
Asimov’s,
April/May.

Gregory Frost, “The Dingus”,
Supernatural Noir.

Nancy Fulda, “Movement”,
Asimov’s,
March.

Diana Gabaldon, “Lord John and the Plague of Zombies”,
Down These Strange Streets.

Neil Gaiman, “And Weep Like Alexander”,
Fables from the Fountain.

James Alan Gardner, “Three Damnations: A Fugue”,
Fantasy,
September.

Laura Anne Gilman, “Crossroads”,
Fantasy,
August.

Lisa Goldstein, “Little Vampires”,
Realms of Fantasy,
April.

———, “Paradise Is a Walled Garden”,
Asimov’s,
August.

Kathleen Ann Goonan, “Angel and You Dogs”,
PS Publishing.

———, “Creatures with Wings”,
Engineering Infinity.

Theodora Goss, “Pug”,
Asimov’s,
July.

Gavin J. Grant, “Windows in the World”,
Strange Horizons,
February.

Joseph Green, “Turtle Love”,
Welcome to the Greenhouse.

Simon R. Green, “Hungry Heart”,
Down These Strange Streets.

Daryl Gregory, “Persistence”,
Unpossible.

John Gribben, “The Alice Encounter”,
PS Publishing.

Eileen Gunn, “Thought Experiment”,
Eclipse Four.

Joe Haldeman, “Complete Sentence”,
TRSF.

Peter F. Hamilton, “Return of the Mutant Worms”,
Solaris Rising.

M. L. N. Hanover, “The Difference Between a Puzzle and a Mystery”,
Down These Strange Streets.

Charlaine Harris, “Death by Dahlia”,
Down These Strange Streets.

Howard V. Hendrix, “A New Bridge Across the Lethe”,
Abyss & Apex,
1st Quarter.

Rosamund Hodge, “Apotheosis”,
Black Gate,
Spring.

Nalo Hopkinson, “Old Habits”,
Eclipse Four.

Kat Howard, “Choose Your Own Adventure”,
Fantasy,
4/11.

———, “The Speaking Bone”,
Apex Magazine.

Matthew Hughes, “So Loved”,
Postscripts 24/25.

———, “Yellow Cabochen”,
PS Publishing.

Thea Hutcheson, “The Good Husband”,
Realms of Fantasy,
June.

Conn Iggulden, “The Lady Is a Screamer”,
Down These Strange Streets.

Jon Ingold, “Sleepers”,
Interzone 234.

Alexander Jablokov, “The Day the Wires Came Down”,
Asimov’s,
April/May.

C. W. Johnson, “Fermi’s Plague”,
Abyss & Apex,
2nd Quarter.

Kij Johnson, “Story Kit”,
Eclipse Four.

Gwyneth Jones, “The Flame Is Roses, the Smoke Is Briars”,
TRSF.

———, “The Ki-anna”,
Engineering Infinity.

Vylar Kaftan, “The Sighted Watchmaker”,
Lightspeed,
December.

James Patrick Kelly, “Crazy Me”,
Tor.com
.

———, “Happy Ending”,
F&SF,
March/April.

———, “Tourists”,
Eclipse Four.

John Kessel, “Clean”,
Asimov’s,
March.

Caitlin R. Kiernan, “Hydraguros”,
Subterranean Dark Fantasy 2.

———, “The Maltese Unicorn”,
Supernatural Noir.

———, “Tidal Forces”,
Eclipse Four.

Laurie R. King, “Hellbender”,
Down These Strange Streets.

Ellen Klages, “Goodnight Moons”,
Life on Mars.

Stephen Kotowych, “Under the Shield”,
OSCIMS,
August.

Mary Robinette Kowal, “Kiss Me Twice”,
Asimov’s,
June.

———, “Water to Wine”,
Subterranean,
Spring.

Nancy Kress, “A Hundred Hundred Daisies”,
Asimov’s,
October/November.

———, “Eliot Wrote”,
Lightspeed,
May.

———, “First Principle”,
Life on Mars.

Naomi Kritzer, “What Happened at Blessing Creek”,
OSCIMS,
August.

Ellen Kushner, “The Duke of Riverside”,
Naked City.

Marc Laidlaw, “The Boy Who Followed Lovecraft”,
Subterranean,
Winter.

Jay Lake, “ ‘Hello,’ Said the Gun”,
Daily SF,
February 22.

———, “Her Fingers Like Whips, Her Eyes Like Razors”,
Postscripts 24/25.

——— & Shannon Page, “The Passion of Mother Vajpai”,
Subterranean Dark Fantasy 2.

Margo Lanagan, “Mulberry Boys”,
Blood and Other Cravings.

Geoffrey A. Landis, “Private Space”,
TRSF.

Joel Lane & Mat Joiner, “Ashes in the Water”,
Postscripts 24/25.

Sarah Langan, “The Man Inside Black Betty”,
F&SF,
September/October.

David Langford, “The Pocklington Poltergeist”,
Fables from the Fountain.

Joe R. Lansdale, “The Bleeding Shadow”,
Down These Strange Streets.

———, “The Crawling Sky”,
Subterranean,
Spring.

Chris Lawson, “Sundown”,
Welcome to the Greenhouse.

Tanith Lee, “Black Fire”,
Lightspeed,
January.

Tim Lees, “Crosstown Traffic”,
Interzone 233.

David D. Levine, “Citizen-Astronaut”,
Analog,
June.

———, “The Tides of the Heart”,
Realms of Fantasy,
June.

Marissa Lingen, “Some of Them Closer”,
Analog,
January/February.

Kelly Link, “Valley of the Girls”,
Subterranean,
Summer.

Ken Liu, “Altogether Elsewhere, Vast Herds of Reindeer”,
F&SF,
May/June.

———, “The Countable”,
Asimov’s,
December.

———, “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary”,
Panverse Three.

———, “The Paper Menagerie”,
F&SF,
March/April.

———, “Real Artists”,
TRSF.

———, “Simulacrum”,
Lightspeed,
February.

———, “Staying Behind”,
Clarkesworld,
October.

———, “Tying Knots”,
Clarkesworld,
January.

Richard A. Lovett, “Jak and the Beanstalk”,
Analog,
July/August.

Will Ludwigsen, “We Were Wonder Scouts”,
Asimov’s,
August.

Richard Lupoff, “12:02
P.M.
”,
F&SF,
January/February.

Jeffrey Lyman, “The Hanged Poet”,
OSCIMS,
June.

Pat MacEwan, “Home Sweet Bi’ome”,
F&SF,
January/February.

Ken MacLeod, “The Best Science Fiction of the Year Three”,
Solaris Rising
.

———, “The Surface of Last Scattering”,
TRSF
.

Ian R. MacLeod, “The Crane Method”,
Subterranean,
Spring.

Emily Mah, “The River People”,
Black Gate,
Spring.

Geoffrey Maloney, “Mr. Morrow Becomes Acquainted with the Delicate Art of Squid Keeping”,
Beneath Ceaseless Skies,
March.

Daniel Marcus, “Bright Moment”,
F&SF,
September/October.

Bruce McAllister, “The Messenger”,
Asimov’s,
July.

Tim McDaniel, “Brother Sleep”,
Asimov’s,
February.

Ian McDonald, “A Smart Well-Mannered Uprising of the Dead”,
Solaris Rising
.

Ian McHugh, “Boumee and the Apes”,
Analog,
May.

———, “The Godbreaker of Seggau-Li”,
Andromeda Spaceways 50
.

———, “Interloper”,
Asimov’s,
January.

Maureen McHugh, “The Effects of Centrifugal Forces”,
After the Apocalypse
.

Sean McMullen, “Enigma”,
Analog,
January/February.

Greg Mellor, “Day Break”,
Cosmos,
April/May.

Erick Melton, “Shadow Angel”,
Asimov’s,
September.

China Mieville, “Covehithe”,
The Guardian,
April 22.

Eugene Mirabelli, “The Pastry Chef, the Nanotechnologist, the Aerobics Instructor, and the Plumber”,
Asimov’s,
October/November.

Judith Moffett, “The Middle of Somewhere”,
Welcome to the Greenhouse
.

Sarah Monette, “The Devil in Gaylord’s Creek”,
Fantasy,
May.

R. Neube, “Grandma Said”,
Asimov’s,
September.

Alec Nevala-Lee, “Kawataro”,
Analog,
June.

Larry Niven, “The Artists”,
Subterranean,
Winter.

Garth Nix, “The Curious Case of the Mondawn Daffodils Murder as Experienced by Sir Magnus Holmes and Almost-Doctor Susan Shirke”,
Ghosts by Gaslight
.

Rick Norwood, “Long Time”,
F&SF,
January/February.

Naomi Novik, “Priced to Sell”,
Naked City
.

Nnedi Okorafor, “The Book of Phoenix (Excerpted from The Great Book)”, Clarkesworld, March.

An Owomoyele, “All That Touches the Air”,
Lightspeed,
April.

———, “Frozen Voice”,
Clarkesworld,
July.

———, “God in the Sky”,
Asimov’s,
March.

Stephen Palmer, “Eluna”,
Solaris Rising
.

Suzanne Palmer, “The Ceiling Is Sky”,
Interzone 234
.

Paul Park, “Mysteries of the Old Quarter”,
Ghosts by Gaslight
.

K. J. Parker, “A Room with a View”,
Subterranean Dark Fantasy 2
.