Somehow we missed it when Gardner Dozois announced the table of contents for his Year’s Best Science Fiction, volume 26 (covering 2008, and appearing this Summer from St. Martin’s). His choices as the best stories of the year are:
“Turing’s Apples” by Stephen Baxter
“From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled” by Michael Swanwick
“The Gambler” by Paolo Bacigalupi
“Boojum” by Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette
“The Six Directions of Space” by Alastair Reynolds
“N-Words” by Ted Kosmatka
“An Eligible Boy” by Ian McDonald
“Shining Armour” by Dominic Green
“The Hero” by Karl Schroeder
“Evil Robot Monkey” by Mary Robinette Kowal
“Five Thrillers” by Robert Reed
“The Sky That Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black” by Jay Lake
“Incomers” by Paul McAuley
“Crystal Nights” by Greg Egan
“The Egg Man” by Mary Rosenblum
“His Master’s Voice” by Hannu Rajaniemi
“The Political Prisoner” by Charles Coleman Finlay
“Balancing Accounts” by James L. Cambias
“Special Economics” by Maureen McHugh
“Days of Wonder” by Geoff Ryman
“City of the Dead” by Paul McAuley
“The Voyage Out” by Gwyneth Jones
“The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm” by Daryl Gregory
“G-Men” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
“The Erdmann Nexus” by Nancy Kress
“Old Friends” by Garth Nix
“The Ray-Gun: a Love Story” by James Alan Gardner
“Lester Young and the Jupiter’s Moons’ Blues” by Gord Sellar
“Butterfly, Falling at Dawn” by Aliete de Bodard
“The Tear” by Ian McDonald