| "About It" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Terry Bisson
                              
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                        2010 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2011 | Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "All the Love in the World" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Cat Sparks
                              
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                        2010 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2011 | Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "At Budokan" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Alastair Reynolds
                              
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                        2010 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2011 | Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Cassandra Project" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Jack McDevitt
                              
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                        2010 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2011 | Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Castoff World" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Kay Kenyon
                              
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                        2010 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2011 | Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Eight Miles" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Sean McMullen
                              
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                        2010 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Hugo Award - Story Finalist | 
                                             | 2011 | Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             | 2011 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 edited by Allan Kaster | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Futures in the Memories Market" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Nina Kiriki Hoffman
                              
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                        2010 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2011 | Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Paul Park
                              
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                        2010 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Sturgeon finalist | 
                                              | Nebula Award - Story Finalist | 
                                             | 2011 | Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             | 2011 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Good Hand" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Robert Reed
                              
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                        2010 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2011 | Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Graffiti in the Library of Babel" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                David Langford
                              
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                        2010 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2011 | Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Hebras And The Demons And The Damned" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Brenda Cooper
                              
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                        2010 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2011 | Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "How to Become a Mars Overlord" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Catherynne M. Valente
                              
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                        2010 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2011 | Year's Best SF 16 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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                            | "Jackie's-Boy" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Steven Popkes
                              
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                        2010 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2011 | Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             | 2011 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             | 2011 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 1 edited by Allan Kaster | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Penumbra" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Gregory Benford
                              
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                        2010 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2011 | Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Petopia" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Benjamin Crowell
                              
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                        2010 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2011 | Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "A Preliminary Assessment of the Drake Equation, Being an Excerpt From the Memoirs of Star Captain Y.-T. Lee" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Vernor Vinge
                              
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                        2010 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2011 | Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Sleeping Dogs" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Joe Haldeman
                              
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                        2010 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2011 | Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             | 2011 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Somadeva: A Sky River Sutra" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Vandana Singh
                              
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                        2010 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2011 | Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Steadfast Castle" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Michael Swanwick
                              
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                        2010 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2011 | Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "To Hie from Far Cilenia" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Karl Schroeder
                              
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                        2009 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2011 | Year's Best SF 16 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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                            | "Under the Moons of Venus" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Damien Broderick
                              
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                        2010 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Sturgeon finalist | 
                                             | 2011 | Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer | 
                                             | 2011 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton | 
                                             | 2011 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five edited by Jonathan Strahan | 
                                             | 2011 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             | 2011 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 edited by Allan Kaster | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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