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    (By Gardner Dozois)

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    Author Gardner Dozois
    “Book Descriptions: The twenty-eight stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and to the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: Daniel Abraham • Eleanor Arnason • Pauolo Bacigalupi • Kage Baker • Stephen Baxter • Terry Bisson • James L. Cambias • Albert E. Cowdrey • Colin P. Davies • Paul Di Fillipo • Brendan DuBois • Michael F. Flynn • Peter F. Hamilton • M. John Harrison • James Patrick Kelly • Caitlin R. Kiernan • Nancy Kress • Paul Melko • David Moles • Pat Murphy • Robert Reed • Benjamin Rosenbaum • Mary Rosenbaum • Christopher Rowe • William Sanders • Vandana Singh • Vernor Vinge • Walter Jon Williams

    Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource as well as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

    Cover design by Shea M. Kornblum
    Cover illustration by Stephan Martiniere

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    Contents
    xi • Acknowledgments (The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection) • (2005) • essay by Gardner Dozois
    xiii • Summation: 2004 • essay by Gardner Dozois
    1 • Inappropriate Behavior • (2004) • novelette by Pat Murphy
    27 • Start the Clock • (2004) • shortstory by Benjamin Rosenbaum
    42 • The Third Party • (2004) • novelette by David Moles
    72 • The Voluntary State • (2004) • novelette by Christopher Rowe
    105 • Shiva in Shadow • (2004) • novelette by Nancy Kress
    153 • The People of Sand and Slag • (2004) • novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
    172 • The Clapping Hands of God • (2004) • novelette by Michael F. Flynn
    214 • Tourism • (2004) • shortstory by M. John Harrison
    228 • Scout's Honor • (2004) • shortstory by Terry Bisson
    244 • Men Are Trouble • (2004) • novelette by James Patrick Kelly
    283 • Mother Aegypt • [Company] • (2004) • novella by Kage Baker
    348 • Synthetic Serendipity • (2004) • shortstory by Vernor Vinge
    366 • Skin Deep • (2004) • shortstory by Mary Rosenblum
    389 • Delhi • (2004) • shortstory by Vandana Singh
    405 • The Tribes of Bela • [Colonel Kohn] • (2004) • novella by Albert E. Cowdrey
    465 • Sitka • (2004) • shortstory by William Sanders
    478 • Leviathan Wept • (2004) • shortstory by Daniel Abraham
    499 • The Defenders • (2004) • shortstory by Colin P. Davies
    504 • Mayflower II • [Xeelee] • (2004) • novella by Stephen Baxter
    562 • Riding the White Bull • (2004) • novelette by Caitlín R. Kiernan
    588 • Falling Star • (2004) • shortstory by Brendan DuBois
    603 • The Dragons of Summer Gulch • (2004) • novelette by Robert Reed
    628 • The Ocean of the Blind • (2004) • shortstory by James L. Cambias
    649 • The Garden: A Hwarhath Science Fictional Romance • [Hwarhath] • (2004) • novella by Eleanor Arnason
    688 • Footvote • (2004) • shortstory by Peter F. Hamilton
    706 • Sisyphus and the Stranger • (2004) • shortstory by Paul Di Filippo (aka Sisyphe et l'étranger)
    718 • Ten Sigmas • (2004) • shortstory by Paul Melko
    726 • Investments • [Dread Empire's Fall] • (2004) • novella by Walter Jon Williams
    811 • Honorable Mentions: 2004 • essay by Gardner Dozois”

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