| "Breathmoss" | Ian R. MacLeod | 2002 |  | 
                                
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                            | "Halo" | Charles Stross | 2002 |  | 
                                
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                            | "Lambing Season" | Molly Gloss | 2002 |  | 
                                
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                            | "Slow Life" | Michael Swanwick | 2002 |  | 
                                
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                            | "Coelacanths" | Robert Reed | 2002 |  | 
                                
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                            | "In Paradise" | Bruce Sterling | 2002 |  | 
                                
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                            | "The Political Officer" | Charles Coleman Finlay | 2002 |  | 
                                
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                            | "The Potter of Bones" | Eleanor Arnason | 2002 |  | 
                                
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                            | "Singleton" | Greg Egan | 2002 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Sturgeon finalist |  | 2003 | Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |  | 2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 
                    
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                            | "Stories for Men" | John Kessel | 2002 |  | 
                                
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                            | "Presence" | Maureen F. McHugh | 2002 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  | 2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 
                    
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                            | "Turquoise Days" | Alastair Reynolds | 2002 |  | 
                                
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                                        | 2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 2007 | The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 
                    
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                            | "Agent Provocateur" | Alex Irvine | 2002 |  | 
                                
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                                        | 2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 
                    
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                            | "At the Money" | Richard Wadholm | 2002 |  | 
                                
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                                        | 2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Clear Blue Seas of Luna" | Gregory Benford | 2002 |  | 
                                
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                                        | 2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 
                    
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                            | "A Flock of Birds" | James Van Pelt | 2002 |  | 
                                
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                                        | 2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Hotel at Harlan's Landing" | Kage Baker | 2002 |  | 
                                
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                                        | 2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Millennium Party" | Walter Jon Williams | 2002 |  | 
                                
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                                        | 2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Most Famous Little Girl in the World" | Nancy Kress | 2002 |  | 
                                
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                                        | 2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Old Cosmonaut and the Construction Worker Dream of Mars" | Ian McDonald | 2002 |  | 
                                
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                                        | 2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Passenger" | Paul J. McAuley | 2002 |  | 
                                
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                                        | 2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 
                    
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                            | "To Become a Warrior" | Chris Beckett | 2002 |  | 
                                
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                                        | 2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 
                    
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                            | "V. A. O." | Geoff Ryman | 2002 |  | 
                                
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                                        | 2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Whisper of Disks" | John Meaney | 2002 |  | 
                                
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                                        | 2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 
                    
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                            | "Winters Are Hard" | Steven Popkes | 2002 |  | 
                                
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