Editor David G. Hartwell has just released the table of contents for his Year’s Best SF 18 (covering the calendar year 2012), which, he notes is “delayed, but out before the end of 2013.” Tor is scheduled to publish the 416-page mass market paperback on December 10th.

Hartwell’s choices for the best stories of the year are:
“Old Paint” by Megan Lindholm
“The Ghosts of Christmas” by Paul Cornell
“Prayer” by Robert Reed
“The Battle of Candle Arc” by Yoon Ha Lee
“Dormanna” by Gene Wolfe
“Holmes Sherlock: a Hwarhath Mystery” by Eleanor Arnason
“Electrica” by Sean McMullen Electrica
“Perfect Day” by C.S. Freidman
“Swift as a Dream and Fleeting as a Sigh” by John Barnes
“Liberty’s Daughter” by Naomi Kritzer
“Weep for Day” by Indrapramit Das
“In Plain Sight” by Pat Cadigan
“Application” by Lewis Shiner
“A Love Supreme” by Kathleen Ann Goonan
“Close Encounters” by Andy Duncan
“Two Sisters in Exile” by Aliette de Bodard
“Waves” by Ken Liu
“The North Revena Ladies Literary Society” by Catherine Shaffer
“Antarctica Starts Here” by Paul McAuley
“Bricks, Sticks, Straw” by Gwyneth Jones”
“The Sigma Structure Symphony” by Gregory Benford
“Glass Future” by Deborah Walker
“If Only” by Tony Ballantyne
“The Woman Who Shook the World Tree” by Michael Swanwick
“Nahiku West” by Linda Nagata
“Houseflies” by Joe Pitkin
“Branches on My Back, Sparrows in My Ear” by Nikki J. North
“The Peak of Eternal Light” by Bruce Sterling