| "After Kerry" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Ian McDonald
                              
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                        1997 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Balinese Dancer" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Gwyneth Jones
                              
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                        1997 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Beauty in the Night" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Robert Silverberg
                              
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                        1997 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1998 | Year's Best SF 3 edited by David G. Hartwell | 
                                             | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "A Cold, Dry Cradle" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Gregory Benford, 
                              
                            
                          
                        
                          
                            
                              Elisabeth Malartre
                            
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                        1997 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Crossing Chao Meng Fu" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                G. David Nordley
                              
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                        1997 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Echoes" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Alan Brennert
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1997 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Sturgeon finalist | 
                                             | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Escape Route" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Peter F. Hamilton
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1997 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             | 2006 | The Space Opera Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Frost Painting" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Carolyn Ives Gilman
                              
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                        1997 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Getting to Know you" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                David Marusek
                              
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                        1997 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Gulliver at Home" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                John Kessel
                              
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                        1997 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Heart of Whiteness" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Howard Waldrop
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1997 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Itsy Bitsy Spider" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                James Patrick Kelly
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1997 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Sturgeon finalist | 
                                              | Hugo Award - Story Finalist | 
                                              | Nebula Award - Story Finalist | 
                                             | 1998 | Year's Best SF 3 edited by David G. Hartwell | 
                                             | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             | 2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Lethe" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Walter Jon Williams
                              
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                        1997 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Sturgeon finalist | 
                                              | Nebula Award - Story Finalist | 
                                             | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Marrow" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Robert Reed
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1997 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Hugo Award - Story Finalist | 
                                             | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             | 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Masque of Agamemnon" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Sean Williams, 
                              
                            
                          
                        
                          
                            
                              Simon Brown
                            
                           | 
                      
                        1997 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Moon Six" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Stephen Baxter
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1997 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Hugo Award - Story Finalist | 
                                             | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Nevermore" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Ian R. MacLeod
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1997 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Open Veins" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Simon Ings
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1997 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Pipes of Pan" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Brian Stableford
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1997 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1998 | Year's Best SF 3 edited by David G. Hartwell | 
                                             | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Reasons to be Cheerful" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Greg Egan
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1997 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             | 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Second Skin" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Paul J. McAuley
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1997 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             | 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "A Spy in Europa" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Alastair Reynolds
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1997 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Steamship Soldier on the Information Front" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Nancy Kress
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1997 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Hugo Award - Story Finalist | 
                                             | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Undiscovered" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                William Sanders
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1997 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Sturgeon finalist | 
                                              | Hugo Award - Story Finalist | 
                                              | Nebula Award - Story Finalist | 
                                             | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             | 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             | 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "We Will Drink a Fish Together …" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Bill Johnson
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1997 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Nebula Award - Story Finalist | 
                                              | Hugo Award - Story Winner | 
                                             | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Winter Fire" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Geoffrey A. Landis
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1997 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Nebula Award - Story Finalist | 
                                             | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Wisdom of Old Earth" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Michael Swanwick
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1997 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1998 | Year's Best SF 3 edited by David G. Hartwell | 
                                             | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Yeyuka" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Greg Egan
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1997 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1998 | Year's Best SF 3 edited by David G. Hartwell | 
                                             | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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