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                                Jack Williamson
                              
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                        2002 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2003 | Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Ailoura" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Paul Di Filippo
                              
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                        2002 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "At Dorado" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Geoffrey A. Landis
                              
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                        2002 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "The Diamond Drill" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Charles Sheffield
                              
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                        2002 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "Flight Correction" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Ken Wharton
                              
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                        2002 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "Geropods" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Robert Onopa
                              
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                        2002 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "I Saw the Light" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Terry Bisson
                              
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                        2002 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "The Names of All the Spirits" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                J. R. Dunn
                              
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                        2002 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "Patent Infringement" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Nancy Kress
                              
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                        2002 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "Shields of Mars" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Gene Wolfe
                              
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                        2002 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "Shoes" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Robert Sheckley
                              
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                        2002 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2003 | Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "A Slow Day at the Gallery" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                A. M. Dellamonica
                              
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                        2002 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "Snow in the Desert" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Neal Asher
                              
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                        2002 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "Grandma" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Carol Emshwiller
                              
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                        2002 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Nebula Award - Story Finalist | 
                                             | 2003 | Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Knapsack Poems" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Eleanor Arnason
                              
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                        2002 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Nebula Award - Story Finalist | 
                                             | 2003 | Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Lost Sorceress of the Silent Citadel" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Michael Moorcock
                              
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                        2002 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2003 | Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             | 2006 | The Space Opera Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Seasons of the Ansarac" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Ursula K. Le Guin
                              
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                        2002 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Sturgeon finalist | 
                                             | 2003 | Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Coelacanths" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Robert Reed
                              
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                        2002 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Sturgeon finalist | 
                                             | 2003 | Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             | 2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "In Paradise" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Bruce Sterling
                              
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                        2002 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Sturgeon finalist | 
                                             | 2003 | Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             | 2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Singleton" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Greg Egan
                              
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                        2002 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Sturgeon finalist | 
                                             | 2003 | Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             | 2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Halo" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Charles Stross
                              
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                        2002 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Sturgeon finalist | 
                                              | Hugo Award - Story Finalist | 
                                             | 2003 | Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             | 2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Slow Life" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Michael Swanwick
                              
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                        2002 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Hugo Award - Story Winner | 
                                             | 2003 | Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             | 2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             | 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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