Originally published: New York : HarperCollins, 2004.
Amnesty / Octavia E. Butler --; Birth days / Geoff Ryman --; Waters of Meribah / Tony Ballantyne --; Ej-Es / Nancy Kress --; Four short novels / Joe Haldeman --; Rogue farm / Charles Stross --; Violet's embryos / Angelica Gorodischer --; Coyote at the end of history / Michael Swanwick --; In fading suns and dying moons / John Varley --; Castaway / Gene Wolfe --; Hydrogen wall / Gergory Benford --; Day we went through the transition / Ricard de la Casa and Pedro Jorge Romero --; Nimby and the dimension hoppers / Cory Doctorow --; Night of time / Robert Reed --; Night on the Barbary Coast / Kage Baker --; Annuity clinic / Nigel Brown --; Madwoman of Shuttlefield / Allen M. Steele --; Bread and bombs / M. Rickert --; Great game / Stephen Baxter --; Albertine notes / Rick Moody.
Year's best science fiction 9; Year's best SF nine