| "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" | Ted Chiang | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Accord" | Keith Brooke | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Against the Current" | Robert Silverberg | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Alien Archeology" | Neal Asher | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Beyond the Wall" | Justin Stanchfield | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Craters" | Kristine Kathryn Rusch | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Dark Heaven" | Gregory Benford | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Finisterra" | David Moles | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Glory" | Greg Egan | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  | 2008 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 2008 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 
                    
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                            | "Hellfire at Twilight" | Kage Baker | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Immortals of Atlantis" | Brian Stableford | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Kiosk" | Bruce Sterling | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Last Contact" | Stephen Baxter | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  | 2008 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 2008 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Laws of Survival" | Nancy Kress | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Lighting Out" | Ken MacLeod | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Mists of Time" | Tom Purdom | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Nothing Personal" | Pat Cadigan | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Ocean is a Snowflake, Four Billion Miles Away" | John Barnes | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Of Late, I Dreamt of Venus" | James Van Pelt | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Of Love and Other Monsters" | Vandana Singh | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Prophet of Flores" | Ted Kosmatka | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Roxie" | Robert Reed | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Sanjeev and Robotwallah" | Ian McDonald | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2008 | Year's Best SF 13 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |  | 2008 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 
                    
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                            | "Saving Tiamaat" | Gwyneth Jones | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Sea Change" | Una McCormack | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Sky Is Large and the Earth Is Small" | Chris Roberson | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Skysailor's Tale" | Michael Swanwick | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Sledge-Maker's Daughter" | Alastair Reynolds | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Steve Fever" | Greg Egan | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Stray" | Benjamin Rosenbaum, 
                              
                            
                          
                        
                          
                            
                              David Ackert | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Tideline" | Elizabeth Bear | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Winner |  |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 2008 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |  | 2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden |  | 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |  | 
                    
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                            | "Verthandi's Ring" | Ian McDonald | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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