| "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" | Ted Chiang | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "By Fools Like Me" | Nancy Kress | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics" | Daniel Abraham | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Coat of Stars" | Holly Black | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2008 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Constable of Abal" | Kelly Link | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2008 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 
                    
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                            | "Dead Horse Point" | Daryl Gregory | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2008 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Dreaming Wind" | Jeffrey Ford | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Glory" | Greg Egan | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Holiday" | M. Rickert | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2008 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 
                    
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                            | "Jesus Christ, Reanimator" | Ken MacLeod | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2008 | Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition edited by Rich Horton |  | 2008 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 
                    
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                            | "Kiosk" | Bruce Sterling | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Nebula 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 Last and Only, or Mr. Moskowitz Becomes French" | Peter S. Beagle | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2008 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 
                    
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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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                            | "Orm the Beautiful" | Elizabeth Bear | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2008 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Prophet of Flores" | Ted Kosmatka | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 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 |  | 2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Singing of Mount Abora" | Theodora Goss | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Sky Is Large and the Earth Is Small" | Chris Roberson | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                            | "Sorrel's Heart" | Susan Palwick | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2008 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 
                    
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                            | "Trunk and Disorderly" | Charles Stross | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2008 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 
                    
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                            | "Urdumheim" | Michael Swanwick | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2008 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Valley of the Gardens" | Tony Daniel | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2008 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 
                    
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                            | "Winter's Wife" | Elizabeth Hand | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2008 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Witch's Headstone" | Neil Gaiman | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2008 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 
                    
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                            | "Wizard's Six" | Alex Irvine | 2007 |  |  | 
                    
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