The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 2
Jonathan Strahan, Ted Chiang, Daniel Abraham, Nancy Kress, Bruce Sterling, Theodora Goss, Neil Gaiman, Stephen Baxter, Ken MacLeod, Susan Palwick, Michael Swanwick, M. Rickert, Peter S. Beagle, Tony Daniel, Elizabeth Hand, Chris Roberson, Elizabeth Bear, Kelly Link, Charles Stross, Greg Egan, Daryl Gregory, Jeffrey Ford, Holly Black, Ted Kosmatka, Alexander C. Irvine
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A Baghdad merchant encounters an alchemist who may have conquered time; a socialite, a miniature elephant, and a butler attempt to survive a coup masquerading as a wild soiree; a pair of scientists, their species altered in order that they may perform research on an alien world, find themselves embroiled in an interplanetary conflict; a young man begins to question his faith in God when he encounters the remains of a race of tool-using hominids; a warrior treads a grisly path as he strives to stop a rogue wizard's influence; a woman born with her heart outside her body finds solace in the arms of a heartless man; the messiah returns to earth, with disappointing news about the afterlife; figures out of myth and legend do battle with an enemy armed with a frightening weapon...the ability to steal away language itself; a girl and her fortune-teller mother travel the countryside, collecting ghosts.
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