Rich Horton has announced the tables of contents of his two year’s best anthologies (one science fiction, the other fantasy). He notes that “each volume is waiting on author approval for one story.”
The science fiction book will include:
“Dark Integers” by Greg Egan (originally published in Asimov’s October-November 2007 issue)
“A Plain Tale From Our Hills” by Bruce Sterling (Subterranean, Spring)
“An Eye for an Eye” by Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF,June)
“Always” by Karen Joy Fowler (Asimov’s, April-May)
“An Ocean is a Snowflake, Four Billion Miles Away” by John Barnes (Baen’s Universe, August)
“Virus Changes Skin” by Ekaterina Sedia (Analog, October)
“Wikiworld” by Paul Di Filippo (Fast Forward 1)
“Artifice and Intelligence” by Tim Pratt (Strange Horizons, 6 August)
“Jesus Christ, Reanimator” by Ken MacLeod (Fast Forward 1)
“Night Calls” by Robert Reed (Asimov’s, October-November)
“Everyone Bleeds Through” by Jack Skillingstead (Realms of Fantasy, October)
“Art of War” by Nancy Kress (The New Space Opera)
“Three Days of Rain” by Holly Phillips (Asimov’s, June)
“Brain Raid” by Alexander Jablokov (F&SF, February)
“For Solo Cello, Op. 12” by Mary Robinette Kowal (Cosmos, February/March)
“Perfect Violet” by Will McIntosh (On Spec, Summer)
“Vectoring” by Geoffrey Landis (Analog, June)
“The Skysailor’s Tale” by Michael Swanwick (The Dog Said Bow-Wow)
The contents of the Fantasy volume will include:
“Unpossible” by Daryl Gregory (F&SF, October/November)
“Light” by Kelly Link (Tin House, Fall)
“The Teashop” by Zoran Zivkovic (12 Collections and the Teashop)
“The Rope” by Noreen Doyle (Realms of Fantasy, April)
“Buttons” by William Alexander (Zahir, Summer)
“Brother of the Moon” by Holly Phillips (Fantasy)
“A Diorama of the Infernal Regions” by Andy Duncan (Wizards)
“Heartstrung” by Rachel Swirsky (Interzone, June)
“Something in the Mermaid Way” by Carrie Laben (Clarkesworld, March)
“Public Safety” by Matthew Johnson (Asimov’s, March)
“Stray” by Benjamin Rosenbaum and David Ackert (F&SF, December)
“The Comb” by Marly Youmans (Fantasy, December)
“Sir Hereward and Master Fitz Go to War Again” by Garth Nix (Baen’s Universe, April)
“The Last Worders” by Karen Joy Fowler (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, June)
“Singing of Mount Abora” by Theodora Goss (Logorrhea)
“Save Me Plz” by David Barr Kirtley (Realms of Fantasy, October)
“Bufo Rex” by Erik Amundsen (Weird Tales)
“The Master Miller’s Tale” by Ian R. MacLeod (F&SF, May)