_____, “Becoming One with the Ghosts,” Asimov’s, October/November.
_____, “The Dark Man,” Is Anybody Out There?
_____, “Hollywood Ending,” JBU, April.
_____, “The Possession of Paavo Deshin,” Analog, January/February.
_____, “The Thrill of the Hunt,” JBU, February.
_____, “The Tower,” Asimov’s, March.
Patricia Russo, “Wishes and Feathers,” Fantasy, May 18.
Patrick Samphire, “Camelot,” Interzone 230.
Jason Sanford, “Memoria,” Interzone 231.
_____, “The Never Never Wizard of Apalachicola,” OSCIMS, December.
_____, “Plague Birds,” Interzone 228.
Pamela Sargent, “Mindband,” Asimov’s, April/May.
Steven Saylor, “The Eagle and the Rabbit,” Warriors.
John Scalzi, “The President’s Brain is Missing,” Tor.com.
Ken Scholes and Jay Lake, “Looking for Truth in a Wild Blue Yonder,” Tor.com.
Aaron Schultz, “Dr. Death vs. the Vampire,” F&SF, May/June.
Gord Sellar, “The Bodhisattvas,” Subterranean, Spring.
_____, “The Broken Pathway,” The Immersion Book of SF.
_____, “Sarging Rasmussen: A Report by Organic,” Shine.
Priya Sharma, “The Nature of Bees,” Albedo One.
Lucius Shepard, “The Company He Keeps,” Postscripts 22/23.
_____, “Dream Burgers at the Mouth of Hell,” The Book of Dreams.
_____, “The Flock,” The Beastly Bride.
_____, “The Taborin Scale,” Subterranean, Summer.
Felicity Shoulders, “Conditional Love,” Asimov’s, January.
_____, “The Termite Queen of Tallulah County,” Asimov’s, October/November.
_____ and Leslie What, “Rare Earth,” Is Anybody Out There?
Robert Silverberg, “Dark Times at the Midnight Market,” Swords & Dark Magic.
_____, “Defenders of the Frontier,” Warriors.
_____, “The Prisoner,” The Book of Dreams.
Cyril Simsa, “Daughters of Fortune,” Electric Velocipede 20.
Linnea Sinclair, “Courting Trouble,” Songs of Love & Death.
Vandana Singh, “Somadeva: a Sky River Sutra,” Strange Horizons, March 29.
Alan Smale, “A Clash of Eagles,” Panverse Two.
_____, “High Art,” Abyss & Apex 36.
Melinda M. Snodgrass, “The Wayfarer’s Advice,” Songs of Love & Death.
Bud Sparhawk, “The Tortuous Path,” Abyss & Apex 33.
Allen M. Steele, “The Great Galactic Ghoul,” Analog, October.
_____, “The Jekyll Island Horror,” Asimov’s, January.
_____, “Zoo Team,” Analog, November.
Bruce Sterling, “The Exterminator’s Want-Ad,” Shareable Futures, June.
S. M. Stirling, “Ancient Ways,” Warriors.
Jason Stoddard, “Overhead,” Shine.
Eric James Stone, “That Leviathan, Who Thou Hast Made,” Analog, October.
Tim Sullivan, “Star-Crossed,” F&SF, March/April.
Michael Swanwick, “Goblin Lake,” Stories.
_____, “Spirits in the Night,” Abyss & Apex 36.
_____, “Steadfast Castle,” F&SF, September/October.
_____ and Eileen Gunn, “The Trains That Climb the Winter Tree,” Tor.com.
Rachel Swirsky, “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window,” Subterranean, Summer.
_____, “The Monster’s Million Faces,” Tor.com.
_____, “The Stable-Master’s Tale,” Fantasy, July 5.
Midori Snider, “The Monkey Bride,” The Beastly Bride.
David Tallerman, “Jenny’s Sick,” Lightspeed, December.
Steve Rasnic Tem, “A Letter from the Emperor,” Asimov’s, January.
Lavie Tidhar, “Aphrodisia,” Strange Horizons, September.
_____, “Butterfly and the Blight at the Heart of the World,” Daily Science Fiction, 9/3.
_____, “Cloud Permutations,” PS Publishing.
_____, “The Insurance Agent,” Interzone 230.
_____, “Lode Stars,” The Immersion Book of SF.
_____, “The Monks of Udom Xhai,” Abyss & Apex 34.
_____, “Monsters,” Fantasy, October 18.
_____, “The Solnet Ascendancy,” Shine.
E. Catherine Tobler, “Island Lake,” The Beastly Bride.
Sarah Totton, “Malleus, Incus, Stapes,” Fantasy, December 20.
Ian Tregillis, “What Doctor Gottlieb Saw,” Tor.com.
_____, “Still Life (A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale),” Apex Magazine, October.
Harry Turtledove, “Vilcabamba,” Tor.com.
Lisa Tuttle, “His Wolf,” Songs of Love & Death.
Catherynne M. Valente, “How to Become a Mars Overlord,” Lightspeed, August.
Genevieve Valentine, “So Deep That the Bottom Could Not Be Seen,” The Way of the Wizard.
Carrie Vaughn, “The Girls from Avenger,” Warriors.
_____, “Rooftops,” Songs of Love & Death.
Wendy N. Wagner, “The Secret of Calling Rabbits,” The Way of the Wizard.
Howard Waldrop, “Ninieslando,” Warriors.
Don Webb, “The Man Who Scared Lovecraft,” Postscripts 22/23.
David Weber, “Out of the Dark,” Warriors.
K. D. Wentworth, “The Embians,” Destination: Future.
Ian Werkheiser, “Variations,” Asimov’s, December.
Dean Whitlock, “Nanosferatu,” F&SF, January/February.
Rick Wilber, “Several Items of Interest,” Asimov’s, October/November.
Kate Wilhelm, “Changing the World,” Asimov’s, October/November.
_____, “The Late Night Train,” F&SF, January/February.
Sean Williams, “A Glimpse of the Marvelous Structure (and the Threat It Entails),” Godlike Machines.
_____, “The Spark (A Romance in Four Acts): A Tale of the Change,” Legends of Australian Fantasy.
Michael D. Winkle, “The Curious Adventure of the Jersey Devil,” Panverse Two.
Gene Wolfe, “Bloodsport,” Swords & Dark Magic.
_____, “King Rat,” Gateways.
_____, “Innocent,” Full Moon City.
_____, “Leif in the Wind,” Stories.
John C. Wright, “Murder in Metachronopolis,” Clockwork Phoenix 3.
Christie Yant, “The Magician and the Maid and Other Stories,” The Way of the Wizard.
Caroline M. Yoachim, “The Sometimes Child,” Fantasy, May 3.
_____, “Stone Wall Truth,” Asimov’s, February.
_____, “What Happens in Vegas,” GUD, Summer.
Marly Youmans, “The Salamander Fire,” The Beastly Bride.
Melissa Yuan-Innes, “Iron Monk,” Interzone 228.
Derek Zumsteg, “Ticket Inspector Gliden Becomes the First Martyr of the Glorious Human Uprising,” Asimov’s, March.
Table of Contents
Cover
Author biography
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Permissions
Acknowledgments
Summation: 2010
A HISTORY OF TERRAFORMING
THE SPONTANEOUS KNOTTING OF AN AGITATED STRING
THE THINGS
THE SULTAN OF THE CLOUDS
THE BOOKS
RE-CROSSING THE STYX
AND MINISTERS OF GRACE
MAMMOTHS OF THE GREAT PLAINS
SLEEPING DOGS
JACKIE’S BOY
FLYING IN THE FACE OF GOD
CHICKEN LITTLE
FLOWER, MERCY, NEEDLE, CHAIN
RETURN TO TITAN
UNDER THE MOONS OF VENUS
SEVEN YEARS FROM HOME
THE PEACOCK CLOAK
AMARYLLIS
SEVEN CITIES OF GOLD
AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN
ELEGY FOR A YOUNG ELK
LIBERTARIAN RUSSIA
THE NIGHT TRAIN
MY FATHER’S SINGULARITY
THE STARSHIP MECHANIC
SLEEPOVER
THE TASTE OF NIGHT
BLIND CAT DANCE
THE SHIPMAKER
IN-FALL
CHIMBWI
DEAD MAN’S RUN
Honorable Mentions: 2010