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• xi • Foreword (The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction) • [Silverberg's Essays: Others' Work] • (2005) • essay by Robert Silverberg
• xvii • Preface (The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction) • (2005) • essay by Gardner Dozois
• 1 • Blood Music • (1983) • novelette by Greg Bear
• 19 • A Cabin on the Coast • (1984) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 28 • Salvador • (1984) • short story by Lucius Shepard
• 42 • Trinity • (1984) • novella by Nancy Kress
• 78 • Flying Saucer Rock and Roll • (1989) • novelette by Howard Waldrop (variant of Flying Saucer Rock & Roll 1985)
• 93 • Dinner in Audoghast • (1985) • short story by Bruce Sterling
• 103 • Roadside Rescue • (1985) • short story by Pat Cadigan
• 109 • Snow • (1985) • short story by John Crowley
• 121 • The Winter Market • (1985) • novelette by William Gibson
• 137 • The Pure Product • (1986) • novelette by John Kessel
• 152 • Stable Strategies for Middle Management • (1988) • short story by Eileen Gunn
• 162 • Kirinyaga • [Kirinyaga • 2] • (1988) • novelette by Mike Resnick
• 177 • Tales from the Venia Woods • [Roma Eterna] • (1989) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 191 • Bears Discover Fire • (1990) • short story by Terry Bisson
• 199 • Even the Queen • (1992) • short story by Connie Willis
• 213 • Guest of Honor • (1991) • novelette by Robert Reed
• 238 • None So Blind • (1994) • short story by Joe Haldeman
• 246 • Mortimer Gray's History of Death • [Emortality] • (1995) • novella by Brian Stableford (variant of Mortimer Gray's "History of Death")
• 293 • The Lincoln Train • (1995) • short story by Maureen F. McHugh
• 303 • Wang's Carpets • (1995) • novelette by Greg Egan
• 328 • Coming of Age in Karhide • [Hainish] • (1995) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 342 • The Dead • (1996) • short story by Michael Swanwick
• 352 • Recording Angel • (1996) • short story by Ian McDonald
• 363 • A Dry, Quiet War • (1996) • novelette by Tony Daniel
• 380 • The Undiscovered • (1997) • novelette by William Sanders
• 400 • Second Skin • [The Quiet War] • (1997) • short story by Paul J. McAuley
• 418 • Story of Your Life • (1998) • novella by Ted Chiang
• 454 • People Came from Earth • (1999) • short story by Stephen Baxter
• 464 • The Wedding Album • [Cathy] • (1999) • novella by David Marusek
• 502 • 10 to 16 to 1 • (1999) • novelette by James Patrick Kelly (variant of
  10¹⁶ to 1^?10 to the power 16 to 1
  )
• 520 • Daddy's World • (1999) • novelette by Walter Jon Williams
• 541 • The Real World • [Silurian Tales] • (2000) • novelette by Steven Utley
• 561 • Have Not Have • (2001) • novelette by Geoff Ryman
• 577 • Lobsters • [Macx Family • 1] • (2001) • novelette by Charles Stross
• 597 • Breathmoss • [Breathmoss Universe] • (2002) • novella by Ian R. MacLeod
• 647 • Lambing Season • (2002) • short story by Molly Gloss