| "The Island" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Peter Watts
                              
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                        2009 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Sturgeon finalist | 
                                              | Hugo Award - Story Winner | 
                                             | 2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             | 2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 edited by Rich Horton | 
                                             | 2010 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan | 
                                             | 2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             | 2010 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 edited by Allan Kaster | 
                                             | 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll | 
                                             | 2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Erosion" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Ian Creasey
                              
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                        2009 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             | 2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             | 2010 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 edited by Allan Kaster | 
                                             | 2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "One of Our Bastards Is Missing" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Paul Cornell
                              
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                        2009 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Hugo Award - Story Finalist | 
                                             | 2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             | 2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             | 2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Black Swan" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Bruce Sterling
                              
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                        2009 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             | 2010 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan | 
                                             | 2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Blocked" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Geoff Ryman
                              
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                        2009 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             | 2010 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan | 
                                             | 2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Infinities" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Vandana Singh
                              
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                        2009 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             | 2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             | 2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "This Peaceable Land; or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Robert Charles Wilson
                              
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                        2009 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             | 2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 edited by Rich Horton | 
                                             | 2010 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 edited by Allan Kaster | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Bespoke" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Genevieve Valentine
                              
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                        2009 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             | 2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 edited by Rich Horton | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Calculus Plague" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Marissa Lingen
                              
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                        2009 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             | 2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Edison's Frankenstein" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Chris Roberson
                              
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                        2009 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             | 2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Another Life" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Charles Oberndorf
                              
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                        2009 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Attitude Adjustment" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Eric James Stone
                              
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                        2009 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Collision" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Gwyneth Jones
                              
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                        2009 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Consciousness Problem" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Mary Robinette Kowal
                              
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                        2009 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Donovan Sent Us" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Gene Wolfe
                              
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                        2009 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Exegesis" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Nancy Kress
                              
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                        2009 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Fixation" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Alastair Reynolds
                              
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                        2009 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Highway Code" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Brian Stableford
                              
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                        2009 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "In Their Garden" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Brenda Cooper
                              
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                        2009 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Lady of the White-Spired City" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Sarah L. Edwards
                              
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                        2009 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Last Apostle" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Michael Cassutt
                              
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                        2009 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "On the Destruction of Copenhagen by the War Machines of the Merfolk" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Peter M. Ball
                              
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                        2009 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Tempest 43" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Stephen Baxter
                              
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                        2009 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Unstrung Zither" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Yoon Ha Lee
                              
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                        2009 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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