Gardner Dozois has announced the table of contents for The Year’s Best Science Fiction, twenty sixth annual collection over at the Asimov’s forum. As IO9 observes, there are a very large number of original anthologies represented in the TOC. Are the digests dead? Did they fall or where they pushed? Interzone, Postscripts and Solaris hold up the British end of things, congrats deserved all around there. But a disappointing lack of material from the online ‘zines, with only one story from Clarkesworld, leaving Strange Horizons as the most notable abscence. Perhaps the ‘zines prefence for more literary and / or genre bending stories have put them out of the running.
TURING’S APPLES, Stephen Baxter
(Eclipse 2, ed. Jonathan Strahan)
FROM BABEL’S FALL’N GLORY WE FLED, Michael Swanwick
(Asimov’s, February 2008)
THE GAMBLER, Paolo Bacigalupi
(Fast Forward 2, ed. Lou Anders)
BOOJUM, Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette
(Fast Ships, Black Sails, ed. Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer)
THE SIX DIRECTIONS OF SPACE, Alastair Reynolds
(Galactic Empires, ed. Gardner Dozois)
N-WORDS, Ted Kosmatka
(Seeds of Change, ed. John Joseph Adams)
AN ELIGIBLE BOY, Ian McDonald
(Fast Forward 2, ed. Lou Anders)
SHINING ARMOUR, Dominic Green
(The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume 2, ed. George Mann)
THE HERO, Karl Schroeder
(Eclipse 2, ed. Jonathan Strahan)
EVIL ROBOT MONKEY, Mary Robinette Kowal
(The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume 2, ed. George Mann)
FIVE THRILLERS, Robert Reed
(F & SF, April 2008)
THE SKY THAT WRAPS THE WORLD ROUND, PAST THE BLUE AND INTO THE BLACK, Jay Lake (Clarkesworld, March 2008)
INCOMERS, Paul McAuley
(The Starry Rift, ed. Jonathan Strahan)
CRYSTAL NIGHTS, Greg Egan
(Interzone, April 2008)
THE EGG MAN, Mary Rosenblum
(Asimov’s, February 2008)
HIS MASTER’S VOICE, Hannu Rajaniemi
(Interzone, October 2008)
THE POLITICAL PRISONER, Charles Coleman Finlay
(F & SF, August 2008)
BALANCING ACCOUNTS, James L. Cambias
(F & SF, February 2008)
SPECIAL ECONOMICS, Maureen McHugh
(The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. Ellen Datlow)
DAYS OF WONDER, Geoff Ryman
(F & SF, October/November 2008)
CITY OF THE DEAD, Paul McAuley
(Postscripts # 15)
THE VOYAGE OUT, Gwyneth Jones
(Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures, ed. Lynne Jamneck)
THE ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY OF LORD GRIMM, Daryl Gregory
(Eclipse 2, ed. Jonathan Strahan)
G-MEN, Kristine Kathryn Rusch
(Sideways in Crime, ed. Lou Anders)
THE ERDMANN NEXUS, Nancy Kress
(Asimov’s, October/November 2008)
OLD FRIENDS, Garth Nix
(Dreaming Again, ed. Jack Dann)
THE RAY-GUN: A LOVE STORY, James Alan Gardner
(Asimov’s, February 2008)
LESTER YOUNG AND THE JUPITER’S MOONS’ BLUES, Gord Sellar
(Asimov’s, July 2008)
BUTTERFLY, FALLING AT DAWN, Aliete de Bodard
(Interzone, November 2008)
THE TEAR, Ian McDonald
(Galactic Empires, ed. Gardner Dozois)
Damien Walter 