Introduction -- Arkfall / Carolyn Ives Gilman -- Orange / Neil Gaiman -- Memory dog / Kathleen Ann Goonan -- Pump six / Paolo Bacigalupi -- Boojum / Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette -- Exhalation / Ted Chiang -- Traitor / M. Rickert -- The things that make me weak and strange get engineered away / Cory Doctorow -- Oblivion : a journey / Vandana Singh -- The house left empty / Robert Reed -- The scarecrow's boy / Michael Swanwick -- N-words / Ted Kosmatka -- Fury / Alastair Reynolds -- Cheats / Ann Halam -- The ships like clouds, risen by their rain / Jason Sanford -- The egg man / Mary Rosenblum -- Glass / Daryl Gregory -- Fixing Hanover / Jeff VanderMeer -- Message found in a gravity wave / Rudy Rucker -- Mitigation / Karl Schroeder and Tobias S. Buckell -- Spiders / Sue Burke.
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2008's best short-form SF - selected by acclaimed, award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer - offers stunning new extrapolations on what awaits humankind beyond the next dawn. The art of the story is explored boldly and provocatively in this powerful new collection of Year's Best speculative fiction.