Year's Best SF 12

A banner year for bold, provocative, brilliantly inventive science fiction has produced some of the most enthrallingly original short sf since the genre's conception. In their twelfth remarkable collection of the very best of the last twelve months, award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer present amazing stories of galaxy-shaking events, alien contact, utopian science, and technology run amok: tales that celebrate the continually evolving literary artistry of some of the form's finest, most respected practitioners . . . while showcasing the magnificent talents of the science fiction superstars of the near future.

Contents

viii • Acknowledgments (Year's Best SF 12) • essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
ix • Introduction (Year's Best SF 12) • essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
1 • Nano Comes to Clifford Falls • (2006) • shortstory by Nancy Kress
21 • Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? • (2006) • shortstory by Terry Bisson
33 • When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth • (2006) • novelette by Cory Doctorow
74 • Just Do It! • (2006) • shortstory by Heather Lindsley
89 • Counterfactual • (2006) • novelette by Gardner Dozois [as by Gardner R. Dozois ]
111 • Moon Does Run • (2006) • shortstory by Edd Vick
124 • Home Movies • (2006) • novelette by Mary Rosenblum
157 • Chu and the Nants • (2006) • shortstory by Rudy Rucker
174 • Silence in Florence • (2006) • shortstory by Ian Creasey
188 • The Women of Our Occupation • (2006) • shortstory by Kameron Hurley
197 • This Is the Ice Age • (2006) • shortstory by Claude Lalumière
210 • Speak, Geek • (2006) • shortstory by Eileen Gunn
214 • Expedition, with Recipes • (2006) • shortstory by Joe Haldeman
221 • The Age of Ice • (2006) • shortstory by Liz Williams
233 • Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth • (2006) • novella by Michael F. Flynn [as by Michael Flynn ]
282 • Applied Mathematical Theology • (2006) • shortstory by Gregory Benford
286 • Quill • (2006) • novelette by Carol Emshwiller
313 • Tiger, Burning • (2006) • novelette by Alastair Reynolds
342 • Dead Men Walking • (2006) • novelette by Paul J. McAuley
364 • Damascus • (2006) • novelette by Daryl Gregory
399 • Tin Marsh • (2006) • novelette by Michael Swanwick
421 • Taking Good Care of Myself • (2006) • shortstory by Ian R. MacLeod
425 • The Lowland Expedition • [Old Earth] • (2006) • shortstory by Stephen Baxter
444 • Heisenberg Elementary • (2006) • shortstory by Wil McCarthy
449 • Rwanda • (2006) • shortstory by Robert Reed
459 • Preemption • (2006) • shortstory by Charlie Rosenkrantz