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John Varley: Air Raid (Asimov's, Spring 1977)
A sample from this anthology.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1978.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1977.
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As by ‘Herb Boehm’. Expanded into the novel ‘Millennium’.

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Jeff Duntemann: Inevitability Sphere (Asimov's, September 1978)
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Jeff Duntemann: Guardian (Asimov's, September 1980)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1981.
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Jeff Duntemann: Silicon Psalm (Asimov's, February 1981)
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Connie Willis: Fire Watch (Asimov's, February 1982)
Hugo for Best Novelette 1983.
Nebula for Best Novelette 1982.
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Rudy Rucker: Pac-Man (Asimov's, June 1982)
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Spider Robinson: Not Fade Away (Asimov's, August 1982)
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Jack McDevitt: Cryptic (Asimov's, April 1983)
A sample from this collection.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1983.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, First Edition.
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Pat Cadigan: Nearly Departed (Asimov's, June 1983)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, First Edition.
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Jack McDevitt: Melville On Iapetus (Asimov's, November 1983)
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Leigh Kennedy: Her Furry Face (Asimov's, December 1983)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1983.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, First Edition.
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Lewis Shiner: Twilight Time (Asimov's, April 1984)
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Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Second Edition.
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’Travel to a 1961 with aliens, flying saucers, and a prom."
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Marta Randall: On Cannon Beach (Asimov's, April 1984)
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Octavia E. Butler: Bloodchild (Asimov's, June 1984)
A sample from this anthology. Alternate link.
Hugo for Best Novelette 1985.
Nebula for Best Novelette 1984.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Second Edition.
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Frederik Pohl: The Kindly Isle (Asimov's, November 1984)
A sample from this anthology.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Second Edition.
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Frederik Pohl: Fermi and Frost (Asimov's, January 1985)
A sample from this anthology.
Hugo for Best Short Story 1986.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Third Edition.
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Marta Randall: Undeniably Cute: A Cautionary Tale (Asimov's, February 1985)
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Bruce Sterling: Dinner in Audoghast (Asimov's, May 1985)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1986.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Third Edition.
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Lewis Shiner: The War at Home (Asimov's, May 1985)
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Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Third Edition.
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’The ghost of Vietnam haunts the 1980s US."
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Marta Randall: Sea Changes (Asimov's, May 1985)
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Ian McDonald: Scenes from a Shadowplay (Asimov's, July 1985)
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Wayne Wightman: In the Realm of the Heart, in the World of the Knife (Asimov's, August 1985)
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Ian McDonald: Empire Dreams (Asimov's, December 1985)
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Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling: Storming the Cosmos (Asimov's, December 1985)
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Lewis Shiner: Jeff Beck (Asimov's, January 1986)
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Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Fourth Edition.
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’Rock and roll dreams mix with working class angst."
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John Kessel: The Pure Product (Asimov's, March 1986)
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Kim Stanley Robinson: Escape from Kathmandu (Asimov's, September 1986)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 1987.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 1986.
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A serialized podcast. Part 2. Part 3.

Neal Barrett, Jr.: Trading Post (Asimov's, October 1986)
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Lewis Shiner: Cabracan (Asimov's, October 1986)
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’Chapter 3 of Deserted Cities, from Asimov’s."
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Rudy Rucker: Bringing in the Sheaves (Asimov's, January 1987)
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Pat Murphy: Rachel in Love (Asimov's, April 1987)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1988.
Nebula for Best Novelette 1987.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Fifth Edition.
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Lillian Stewart Carl: Out of Darkness (Asimov's, April 1987)
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Pat Cadigan: Angel (Asimov's, May 1987)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1988.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1987.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 1988.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Fifth Edition.
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Neal Barrett, Jr.: Perpetuity Blues (Asimov's, May 1987)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Fifth Edition.
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Lawrence Watt-Evans: Why I Left Harry’s All-Night Hamburgers (Asimov's, July 1987)
Hugo for Best Short Story 1988.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1987.
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Alexander Jablokov: At the Cross-Time Jaunters’ Ball (Asimov's, August 1987)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Fifth Edition.
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Tom Maddox: Spirit of the Night (Asimov's, September 1987)
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Michael Bishop: The Calling of Paisley Coldpony (Asimov's, January 1988)
A sample from this anthology.
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An excerpt (Chapters 15-17) from the novel ‘Unicorn Mountain’.

Karen Joy Fowler: Lily Red (Asimov's, July 1988)
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David Alexander Smith: Dying In Hull (Asimov's, November 1988)
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Michael Swanwick: A Midwinter’s Tale (Asimov's, December 1988)
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Janet Kagan: The Loch Moose Monster (Asimov's, March 1989)
A sample from this collection.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Seventh Edition.
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Robert Silverberg: Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another (Asimov's, June 1989)
A sample from this anthology.
Hugo for Best Novelette 1990.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1989.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Seventh Edition.
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Nancy Kress: People Like Us (Asimov's, September 1989)
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John Kessel: Buddha Nostril Bird (Asimov's, March 1990)
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Bruce McAllister: Angels (Asimov's, May 1990)
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Larry Niven: Madness Has Its Place (Asimov's, June 1990)
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Terry Bisson: Bears Discover Fire (Asimov's, August 1990)
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Hugo for Best Short Story 1991.
Nebula for Best Short Story 1990.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 1991.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Eighth Edition.
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Greg Costikyan: Bright Light, Big City (Asimov's, February 1991)
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Mary Rosenblum: Water Bringer (Asimov's, March 1991)
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Mike Resnick: One Perfect Morning, with Jackals (Asimov's, March 1991)
A sample from this collection.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1992.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Ninth Edition.
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Paul Witcover: Lighthouse Summer (Asimov's, April 1991)
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Kim Stanley Robinson: A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations (Asimov's, April 1991)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Ninth Edition.
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Mary Rosenblum: Celilo (Asimov's, June 1991)
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Pat Cadigan: Dispatches from the Revolution (Asimov's, July 1991)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1992.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Ninth Edition.
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Mary Rosenblum: The Bee Man (Asimov's, September 1991)
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Geoffrey A. Landis: A Walk in the Sun (Asimov's, October 1991)
A sample from this anthology.
Hugo for Best Short Story 1992.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Ninth Edition.
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Eileen Gunn: Fellow Americans (Asimov's, December 1991)
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Maureen F. McHugh: The Beast (Asimov's, March 1992)
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Connie Willis: Even the Queen (Asimov's, April 1992)
Hugo for Best Short Story 1993.
Nebula for Best Short Story 1992.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Tenth Edition.
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Ian R. MacLeod: Grownups (Asimov's, June 1992)
A sample from this collection.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Tenth Edition.
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L. Sprague de Camp: The Big Splash (Asimov's, June 1992)
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James Patrick Kelly: Monsters (Asimov's, June 1992)
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Greg Costikyan: A Doe, in Charcoal (Asimov's, July 1992)
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Ben Bova: Sepulcher (Asimov's, November 1992)
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Richard Paul Russo: Just Drive, She Said (Asimov's, December 1992)
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Bruce McAllister: Southpaw (Asimov's, August 1993)
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Steven Utley: The Country Doctor (Asimov's, October 1993)
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Mike Resnick: Barnaby in Exile (Asimov's, February 1994)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1995.
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Terry Bisson: The Hole in the Hole (Asimov's, February 1994)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twelfth Edition.
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Maureen F. McHugh: Nekropolis (Asimov's, April 1994)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1994.
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Lisa Goldstein: The Narcissus Plague (Asimov's, July 1994)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1995.
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Eleanor Arnason: The Lovers (Asimov's, July 1994)
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Stephen Baxter: Cilia-of-Gold (Asimov's, August 1994)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twelfth Edition.
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Joe Haldeman: None So Blind (Asimov's, November 1994)
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Hugo for Best Short Story 1995.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1994.
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Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling: Big Jelly (Asimov's, November 1994)
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Charles Sheffield: The Bee’s Kiss (Asimov's, November 1994)
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Jeff VanderMeer: Mahout (Asimov's, 1995)
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Lewis Shiner: Sitcom (Asimov's, January 1995)
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’Any resemblance to a certain 70s TV show is...a conspiracy?"
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Tony Daniel: Life on the Moon (Asimov's, April 1995)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1996.
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Ian R. MacLeod: Starship Day (Asimov's, July 1995)
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Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Thirteenth Edition.
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Allen Steele: The War Memorial (Asimov's, September 1995)
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Greg Egan: TAP (Asimov's, November 1995)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1996.
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Steven Utley: The Age of Mud and Slime (Asimov's, March 1996)
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Ian Watson: Early, in the Evening (Asimov's, April 1996)
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Steven Utley: A Silurian Tale (Asimov's, May 1996)
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Tony Daniel: A Dry, Quiet War (Asimov's, June 1996)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Fourteenth Edition.
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John Kessel: The Miracle of Ivar Avenue (Asimov's, September 1996)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1997.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Fourteenth Edition.
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Kelly Link: Flying Lessons (Asimov's, October 1996)
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Nancy Kress: The Flowers of Aulit Prison (Asimov's, October 1996)
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Nebula for Best Novelette 1997.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Fourteenth Edition.
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Connie Willis: In Coppelius’s Toyshop (Asimov's, December 1996)
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Tom Purdom: Canary Land (Asimov's, January 1997)
Featured in David Hartwell’s ‘Year’s Best SF 3’.
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Nancy Kress: Always True to Thee, in My Fashion (Asimov's, January 1997)
Featured in David Hartwell’s ‘Year’s Best SF 3’.
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Andy Duncan: Beluthahatchie (Asimov's, March 1997)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1998.
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Kage Baker: Noble Mold (Asimov's, March 1997)
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Paul J. McAuley & Kim Newman: Residuals (Asimov's, June 1997)
A sample from this anthology.
Featured in Datlow et al.’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror’, Eleventh Edition.
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Rebecca Ore: Scarey Rose in Deep History (Asimov's, June 1997)
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James Patrick Kelly: Itsy Bitsy Spider (Asimov's, June 1997)
A sample from this anthology.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1998.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1997.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Fifteenth Edition.
Featured in David Hartwell’s ‘Year’s Best SF 3’.
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Karen Joy Fowler: Standing Room Only (Asimov's, August 1997)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1998.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1998.
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L. Timmel Duchamp: The Apprenticeship of Isabetta di Pietro Cavazzi (Asimov's, September 1997)
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Mike Resnick: The 43 Antarean Dynasties (Asimov's, December 1997)
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Hugo for Best Short Story 1998.
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Janet Kagan: Standing in the Spirit (Asimov's, December 1997)
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Geoffrey A. Landis: Approaching Perimelasma (Asimov's, January 1998)
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Greg Egan: The Planck Dive (Asimov's, February 1998)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1999.
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Michael Swanwick: The Very Pulse of the Machine (Asimov's, February 1998)
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Hugo for Best Short Story 1999.
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Paul J. McAuley: 17 (Asimov's, June 1998)
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Greg Egan: Oceanic (Asimov's, August 1998)
Hugo for Best Novella 1999.
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Lisa Goldstein: The Game This Year (Asimov's, December 1998)
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Nisi Shawl: The Pragmatical Princess (Asimov's, January 1999)
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Michael Swanwick: Ancient Engines (Asimov's, February 1999)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2000.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1999.
Featured in David Hartwell’s ‘Year’s Best SF 5’.
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Cory Doctorow: Visit the Sins (Asimov's, June 1999)
Featured in David Hartwell’s ‘Year’s Best SF 5’.
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James Patrick Kelly: 10 to 16 to 1 (Asimov's, June 1999)
Hugo for Best Novelette 2000.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Seventeenth Edition.
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Geoffrey A. Landis: Into The Blue Abyss (Asimov's, August 1999)
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Kage Baker: Smart Alec (Asimov's, September 1999)
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Ian R. MacLeod: The Chop Girl (Asimov's, December 1999)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2000.
World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story 2000.
Featured in Datlow et al.’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror’, Thirteenth Edition.
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Esther M. Friesner: The Shunned Trailer (Asimov's, February 2000)
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Stephen Baxter: The Gravity Mine (Asimov's, April 2000)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2001.
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Susan Palwick: Going After Bobo (Asimov's, May 2000)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Eighteenth Edition.
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Greg Egan: Oracle (Asimov's, July 2000)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2001.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Eighteenth Edition.
Featured in David Hartwell’s ‘Year’s Best SF 6’.
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Mike Resnick: Redchapel (Asimov's, December 2000)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2001.
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Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Results (Asimov's, December 2000)
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Kage Baker: The Dust Enclosed Here (Asimov's, March 2001)
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Nisi Shawl: Shiomah’s Land (Asimov's, March 2001)
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Charles Stross: Lobsters (Asimov's, June 2001)
Available as part of this fix-up novel.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2002.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2002.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Nineteenth Edition.
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Charles Stross: Troubadour (Asimov's, October 2001)
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Michael Swanwick: The Dog Said Bow-Wow (Asimov's, October 2001)
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Hugo for Best Short Story 2002.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2002.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Nineteenth Edition.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 7’.
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Charles Stross: Tourist (Asimov's, February 2002)
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Nancy Kress: Patent Infringement (Asimov's, May 2002)
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 8’.
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Ian R. MacLeod: Breathmoss (Asimov's, May 2002)
A sample from this collection.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2003.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2003.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twentieth Edition.
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Gregory Frost: Madonna of the Maquiladora (Asimov's, May 2002)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2003.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2002.
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Liz Williams: The Banquet of the Lords of Night (Asimov's, June 2002)
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Charles Stross: Halo (Asimov's, June 2002)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2003.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twentieth Edition.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 8’.
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Molly Gloss: Lambing Season (Asimov's, July 2002)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2003.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2003.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twentieth Edition.
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Michael Jasper: Natural Order (Asimov's, July 2002)
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Kage Baker: The Likely Lad (Asimov's, September 2002)
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James Van Pelt: The Last of the O-Forms (Asimov's, September 2002)
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Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2003.
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Charles Stross: Router (Asimov's, September 2002)
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John Kessel: Stories for Men (Asimov's, October 2002)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2003.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twentieth Edition.
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Gregory Benford: The Clear Blue Seas of Luna (Asimov's, October 2002)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twentieth Edition.
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G. David Nordley: War, Ice, Egg, Universe (Asimov's, October 2002)
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James Patrick Kelly: Candy Art (Asimov's, December 2002)
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Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling: Junk DNA (Asimov's, January 2003)
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Charles Stross: Nightfall (Asimov's, April 2003)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2004.
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Jack Skillingstead: Dead Worlds (Asimov's, June 2003)
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Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-First Edition.
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John Kessel: Under the Lunchbox Tree (Asimov's, July 2003)
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Mike Resnick: Robots Don’t Cry (Asimov's, July 2003)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2004.
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Charles Stross: Curator (Asimov's, December 2003)
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Benjamin Rosenbaum: Embracing-The-New (Asimov's, January 2004)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2004.
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Mike Resnick: Travels with My Cats (Asimov's, February 2004)
Hugo for Best Short Story 2005.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2004.
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Gene Wolfe: Pulp Cover (Asimov's, March 2004)
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Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 10’.
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Mary Rosenblum: Tracker (Asimov's, April 2004)
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Mike Resnick: Down Memory Lane (Asimov's, April 2004)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2006.
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William Sanders: Sitka (Asimov's, April 2004)
A sample from this anthology.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Second Edition.
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Neal Asher: The Veteran (Asimov's, June 2004)
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Kit Reed: Yard Sale (Asimov's, August 2004)
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Charles Stross: Elector (Asimov's, September 2004)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2005.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF of the Year’, 2004 Edition.
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Maureen F. McHugh: Oversite (Asimov's, September 2004)
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Ysabeau S. Wilce: The Biography of a Bouncing Boy Terror! (Asimov's, September 2004)
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Mary Rosenblum: Skin Deep (Asimov's, October 2004)
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Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Second Edition.
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Neal Asher: Strood (Asimov's, December 2004)
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Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 10’.
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Chris Roberson: Red Hands, Black Hands (Asimov's, December 2004)
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A Sidewise Award nominee.

Lavie Tidhar: Crucifixation (Asimov's, December 2004)
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Charles Stross: Survivor (Asimov's, December 2004)
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Bud Sparhawk: Bright Red Star (Asimov's, March 2005)
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 11’.
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D. D. Levine: Tk’tk’tk (Asimov's, March 2005)
Hugo for Best Short Story 2006.
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Jack Skillingstead: Bean There (Asimov's, April 2005)
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Michael Jasper & Greg van Eekhout: California King (Asimov's, April 2005)
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James Patrick Kelly: The Edge of Nowhere (Asimov's, June 2005)
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 11’.
Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘SF: The Best of the Year 2006’.
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Tim Pratt: Bottom Feeding (Asimov's, August 2005)
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Neal Asher: Softly Spoke the Gabbleduck (Asimov's, August 2005)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Third Edition.
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Daryl Gregory: Second Person, Present Tense (Asimov's, September 2005)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Third Edition.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 11’.
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On the 2006 Nebula Preliminary Ballot.

Recommended!

Robert Reed: Finished (Asimov's, September 2005)
Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘SF: The Best of the Year 2006’.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF of the Year’, 2005 Edition.
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Nisi Shawl: Cruel Sistah (Asimov's, October 2005)
Featured in Datlow et al.’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror’, Nineteenth Edition.
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D. D. Levine: The Last McDougal’s (Asimov's, January 2006)
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Ian Creasey: The Hastillan Weed (Asimov's, February 2006)
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Jack Skillingstead: Are You There (Asimov's, February 2006)
Available as part of this magazine.
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Bruce McAllister: Kin (Asimov's, February 2006)
Alternate link.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2007.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Fourth Edition.
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Jonathan Sherwood: Under the Graying Sea (Asimov's, February 2006)
Reviews: Isfdb:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Paul J. McAuley: Dead Men Walking (Asimov's, March 2006)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Fourth Edition.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 12’.
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Greg van Eekhout: The Osteomancer’s Son (Asimov's, April 2006)
Alternate link.
Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘Fantasy: The Best of the Year 2007’.
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Chris Roberson: Companion to Owls (Asimov's, May 2006)
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Jack Skillingstead: Life on the Preservation (Asimov's, June 2006)
A sample from this collection.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Fourth Edition.
Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘SF: The Best of the Year 2007’.
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Robert Reed: Eight Episodes (Asimov's, June 2006)
Alternate link.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2007.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume One.
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Ian McDonald: The Djinn’s Wife (Asimov's, July 2006)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo for Best Novelette 2007.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Fourth Edition.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume One.
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Tim Pratt: Impossible Dreams (Asimov's, July 2006)
Hugo for Best Short Story 2007.
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Nancy Kress: Nano Comes to Clifford Falls (Asimov's, July 2006)
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 12’.
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Ian Creasey: Silence in Florence (Asimov's, September 2006)
Available as part of this magazine.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 12’.
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John Kessel: Sunlight or Rock (Asimov's, September 2006)
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Christopher Priest: A Dying Fall (Asimov's, December 2006)
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Jack Dann: Cafe Culture (Asimov's, January 2007)
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Jeff Carlson: Gunfight at the Sugarloaf Pet Food & Taxidermy (Asimov's, January 2007)
Available as part of this magazine.
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Jack Skillingstead: The Chimera Transit (Asimov's, February 2007)
A sample from this collection.
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Elizabeth Bear: Tideline (Asimov's, March 2007)
Alternate link. Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo for Best Short Story 2008.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Fifth Edition.
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Also available here.

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Mike Resnick: Distant Replay (Asimov's, April 2007)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2008.
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Nancy Kress: End Game (Asimov's, April 2007)
Alternate link.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 13’.
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Michael Swanwick: A Small Room in Koboldtown (Asimov's, April 2007)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2008.
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Holly Phillips: Three Days of Rain (Asimov's, June 2007)
Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘SF: The Best of the Year 2008’.
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Chris Roberson: The Sky is Large and the Earth is Small (Asimov's, July 2007)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Fifth Edition.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Two.
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Robert Reed: Roxie (Asimov's, July 2007)
Available as part of this magazine.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Fifth Edition.
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Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling: Hormiga Canyon (Asimov's, August 2007)
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Ted Kosmatka: The Prophet of Flores (Asimov's, September 2007)
Available as part of this magazine.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Fifth Edition.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Two.
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On the 2008 Nebula Preliminary Ballot.

Rudy Rucker: The Perfect Wave (Asimov's, January 2008)
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Tanith Lee: The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Asimov's, January 2008)
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Mary Rosenblum: The Egg Man (Asimov's, February 2008)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Sixth Edition.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 14’.
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Michael Swanwick: From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled … (Asimov's, February 2008)
Alternate link.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Three.
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James Alan Gardner: The Ray-Gun: A Love Story (Asimov's, February 2008)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2009.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2008.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Sixth Edition.
Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2009’.
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Cat Rambo: Kallakak’s Cousins (Asimov's, March 2008)
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Ian Creasey: This Is How It Feels (Asimov's, March 2008)
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Elizabeth Bear: Shoggoths in Bloom (Asimov's, March 2008)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo for Best Novelette 2009.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy 9’.
Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2009’.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Three.
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Kathleen Ann Goonan: Memory Dog (Asimov's, April 2008)
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Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 14’.
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Kij Johnson: 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss (Asimov's, July 2008)
Alternate link. Alternate link.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2009.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2008.
World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story 2009.
Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2009’.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Three.
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Gord Sellar: Lester Young and the Jupiter’s Moons’ Blues (Asimov's, July 2008)
Available as part of this anthology. Available as part of this magazine.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Sixth Edition.
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Michael Bishop: Vinegar Peace, or, The Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage (Asimov's, July 2008)
Available as part of this anthology. Available as part of this magazine.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2009.
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Jack Skillingstead: What You Are About To See (Asimov's, August 2008)
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Will McIntosh: Midnight Blue (Asimov's, September 2008)
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Gord Sellar: Dhuluma No More (Asimov's, October 2008)
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Brandon Sanderson: Defending Elysium (Asimov's, October 2008)
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Geoffrey A. Landis: Still On the Road (Asimov's, December 2008)
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Mary Rosenblum: Lion Walk (Asimov's, January 2009)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Seventh Edition.
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Will McIntosh: Bridesicle (Asimov's, January 2009)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo for Best Short Story 2010.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2009.
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Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling: Colliding Branes (Asimov's, February 2009)
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Damien Broderick: This Wind Blowing, and This Tide (Asimov's, April 2009)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Seventh Edition.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Four.
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Eileen Gunn & Michael Swanwick: The Armies of Elfland (Asimov's, April 2009)
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Mary Robinette Kowal: The Consciousness Problem (Asimov's, August 2009)
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 15’.
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Mike Resnick & Lezli Robyn: Soulmates (Asimov's, September 2009)
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Brenda Cooper: In Their Garden (Asimov's, September 2009)
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Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 15’.
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Ferrett Steinmetz: Camera Obscured (Asimov's, September 2009)
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Ted Kosmatka & Michael Poore: Blood Dauber (Asimov's, October 2009)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Seventh Edition.
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Michael Poore & Ted Kosmatka: Blood Dauber (Asimov's, October 2009)
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Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Seventh Edition.
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Jeff Carlson: A Lovely Little Christmas Fire (Asimov's, December 2009)
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Mike Resnick: The Bride of Frankenstein (Asimov's, December 2009)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2010.
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Felicity Shoulders: Conditional Love (Asimov's, January 2010)
Alternate link.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2010.
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Steve Rasnic Tem: A Letter from the Emperor (Asimov's, January 2010)
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Caroline M. Yoachim: Stone Wall Truth (Asimov's, February 2010)
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Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2010.
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Will Ludwigsen: The Speed of Dreams (Asimov's, March 2010)
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Eugene Fischer: Adrift (Asimov's, April 2010)
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Steven Popkes: Jackie’s-Boy (Asimov's, April 2010)
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Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 16’.
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A serialized podcast. Part 2.

Allen Steele: The Emperor of Mars (Asimov's, June 2010)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo for Best Novelette 2011.
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Aliette de Bodard: The Jaguar House, in Shadow (Asimov's, July 2010)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2011.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2010.
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Geoffrey A. Landis: The Sultan of the Clouds (Asimov's, September 2010)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2011.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2010.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Eighth Edition.
Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2011’.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Five.
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On Tilton’s ‘best fiction from 2010’ list.
Audio version serialized. Part 2. Part 3.

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Mary Robinette Kowal: For Want of a Nail (Asimov's, September 2010)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo for Best Short Story 2011.
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Kij Johnson: Names for Water (Asimov's, October 2010)
Available as part of this magazine.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Five.
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Will McIntosh: Frankenstein, Frankenstein (Asimov's, October 2010)
Available as part of this magazine.
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Ferrett Steinmetz: Under the Thumb of the Brain Patrol (Asimov's, October 2010)
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Ian Creasey: The Prize Beyond Gold (Asimov's, December 2010)
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James Patrick Kelly: Plus or Minus (Asimov's, December 2010)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2011.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2010.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Five.
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Gregory Norman Bossert: Freia in the Sunlight (Asimov's, December 2010)
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Elizabeth Bear: Dolly (Asimov's, January 2011)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Ninth Edition.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 17’.
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Gwendolyn Clare: Ashes on the Water (Asimov's, January 2011)
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Nancy Fulda: Movement (Asimov's, March 2011)
Available as part of this magazine. Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2012.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2011.
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On Tilton’s ‘best fiction from 2011’ list.

Mike Resnick: The Homecoming (Asimov's, April 2011)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2012.
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Rudy Rucker: The Fnoor Hen (Asimov's, April 2011)
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Chris Barzak: Smoke City (Asimov's, April 2011)
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Alan DeNiro: Walking Stick Fires (Asimov's, June 2011)
Available as part of this magazine.
Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2012’.
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Mary Robinette Kowal: Kiss Me Twice (Asimov's, June 2011)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2012.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2011.
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Will Ludwigsen: We Were Wonder Scouts (Asimov's, August 2011)
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Michael Swanwick: For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I’ll Not Be Back Again (Asimov's, August 2011)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Ninth Edition.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 17’.
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Ian Creasey: The Odor of Sanctity (Asimov's, September 2011)
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Allen Steele: The Observation Post (Asimov's, September 2011)
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Derek Künsken: To Live and Die in Gibbontown (Asimov's, October 2011)
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Ferrett Steinmetz: "Run," Bakri Says (Asimov's, December 2011)
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Rudy Rucker & Eileen Gunn: Hive Mind Man (Asimov's, February 2012)
Available as part of this anthology.
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Leah Cypess: Nanny’s Day (Asimov's, March 2012)
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Derek Künsken: The Way of the Needle (Asimov's, March 2012)
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Tom Purdom: Bonding with Morry (Asimov's, April 2012)
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David Barr Kirtley: Power Armor: A Love Story (Asimov's, April 2012)
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Bud Sparhawk: Scout (Asimov's, June 2012)
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Will McIntosh: Possible Monsters (Asimov's, June 2012)
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Megan Lindholm: Old Paint (Asimov's, July 2012)
Available as part of this magazine.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Thirtieth Edition.
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Michael Blumlein: Bird Walks in New England (Asimov's, July 2012)
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Ian Creasey: Joining the High Flyers (Asimov's, August 2012)
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Jason Sanford: Heaven’s Touch (Asimov's, August 2012)
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Theodora Goss: Beautiful Boys (Asimov's, August 2012)
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Seven.
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Indrapramit Das: Weep for Day (Asimov's, August 2012)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Thirtieth Edition.
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Vylar Kaftan: Lion Dance (Asimov's, October 2012)
Alternate link.
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Mike Resnick: The Wizard of West 34th Street (Asimov's, December 2012)
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Alaya Dawn Johnson: They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass (Asimov's, January 2013)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2013.
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M. Bennardo: Outbound from Put-In-Bay (Asimov's, February 2013)
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Vylar Kaftan: The Weight of the Sunrise (Asimov's, February 2013)
Nebula for Best Novella 2013.
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Robert Reed: The Golden Age of Story (Asimov's, February 2013)
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Matthew Hughes: And Then Some (Asimov's, February 2013)
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Alexander Jablokov: Feral Moon (Asimov's, March 2013)
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Karl Bunker: Gray Wings (Asimov's, April 2013)
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Colin P. Davies: Julian of Earth (Asimov's, April 2013)
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David J. Schwartz: Today’s Friends (Asimov's, July 2013)
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On Tilton’s ‘best fiction from 2013’ list.

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Gwendolyn Clare: Stone to Stone, Blood to Blood (Asimov's, August 2013)
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Leah Cypess: What We Ourselves are Not (Asimov's, September 2013)
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Ian R. MacLeod: The Discovered Country (Asimov's, September 2013)
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Dominica Phetteplace: What Changes You, What Takes You Away (Asimov's, September 2013)
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Neal Asher: Memories of Earth (Asimov's, October 2013)
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Charlie Jane Anders: The Time Travel Club (Asimov's, October 2013)
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Henry Lien: Pearl Rehabilitative Colony for Ungrateful Daughters (Asimov's, December 2013)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2013.
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A serial. Part 2.

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Timons Esaias: The Fitter (Asimov's, December 2013)
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Gregory Norman Bossert: Bloom (Asimov's, December 2013)
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Derek Künsken: Schools of Clay (Asimov's, February 2014)
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Sarah Pinsker: The Transdimensional Horsemaster Rabbis of Mpumalanga Province (Asimov's, February 2014)
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James Patrick Kelly: Someday (Asimov's, April 2014)
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Ian Creasey: Ormonde and Chase (Asimov's, June 2014)
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Suzanne Palmer: Shatterdown (Asimov's, June 2014)
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Robert Reed: Blood Wedding (Asimov's, July 2014)
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Kelly Sandoval: Everyone Will Want One (Asimov's, September 2014)
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Kate Bachus: Pinono Deep (Asimov's, October 2014)
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James Patrick Kelly: Uncanny (Asimov's, October 2014)
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Sue Burke: Summer Home (Asimov's, December 2014)
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Caroline M. Yoachim: Ninety-Five Percent Safe (Asimov's, January 2015)
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Christopher Rowe: The Unveiling (Asimov's, January 2015)
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Gwendolyn Clare: Holding the Ghosts (Asimov's, March 2015)
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Eugene Fischer: The New Mother (Asimov's, April 2015)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2015.
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Henry Lien: The Ladies’ Aquatic Gardening Society (Asimov's, June 2015)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2015.
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Sarah Pinsker: Our Lady of the Open Road (Asimov's, June 2015)
Nebula for Best Novelette 2015.
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Will Ludwigsen: Acres of Perhaps (Asimov's, July 2015)
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Nick Wolven: No Placeholder for You, My Love (Asimov's, August 2015)
Alternate link.
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Kelly Robson: Two-Year Man (Asimov's, August 2015)
Available as part of this magazine. Alternate link.
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Sam J. Miller: Calved (Asimov's, September 2015)
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Rich Larson: Bidding War (Asimov's, December 2015)
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Ian McHugh: The Baby Eaters (Asimov's, January 2016)
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Julie Novakova: The Ship Whisperer (Asimov's, March 2016)
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Rich Larson: Masked (Asimov's, July 2016)
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Kathe Koja & Carter Scholz: KIT: Some Assembly Required (Asimov's, August 2016)
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Dominica Phetteplace: Project Extropy (Asimov's, October 2016)
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Karl Bunker: They Have All One Breath (Asimov's, December 2016)
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Ian Creasey: After the Atrocity (Asimov's, March 2017)
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Leah Cypess: On the Ship (Asimov's, May 2017)
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Karen Joy Fowler: Persephone of the Crows (Asimov's, May 2017)
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Allen Steele: An Incident in the Literary Life of Nathan Arkwright (Asimov's, September 2017)
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Sarah Pinsker: Wind Will Rove (Asimov's, September 2017)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2018.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2017.
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