| "Altogether Elsewhere, Vast Herds of Reindeer" | Ken Liu | 2011 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "And Weep Like Alexander" | Neil Gaiman | 2011 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Best Science Fiction of the Year Three" | Ken MacLeod | 2011 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Dolly" | Elizabeth Bear | 2011 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Education of Junior Number 12" | Madeline Ashby | 2011 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Eliot Wrote" | Nancy Kress | 2011 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I'll Not Be Back Again" | Michael Swanwick | 2011 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Home Sweet Bi'Ome" | Pat MacEwen | 2011 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Ice Owl" | Carolyn Ives Gilman | 2011 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  | 2012 | Year's Best SF 17 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |  | 2012 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 2012 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 2 edited by Allan Kaster |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Ki-Anna" | Gwyneth Jones | 2011 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Laika's Ghost" | Karl Schroeder | 2011 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Master of the Aviary" | Bruce Sterling | 2011 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Mercies" | Gregory Benford | 2011 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Middle of Somewhere" | Judith Moffett | 2011 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Nearest Thing" | Genevieve Valentine | 2011 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Our Candidate" | Robert Reed | 2011 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Six Months, Three Days" | Charlie Jane Anders | 2011 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Sturgeon finalist |  |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Hugo Award - Story Winner |  | 2012 | Year's Best SF 17 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |  | 
                    
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                            | "Tethered" | Mercurio D. Rivera | 2011 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Thick Water" | Karen Heuler | 2011 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel" | Yoon Ha Lee | 2011 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Wahala" | Nnedi Okorafor | 2011 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "The War Artist" | Tony Ballantyne | 2011 |  |  | 
                    
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