The Year's Best Science Fiction

Mr. Boy / James Patrick Kelly The Shobie's story / Ursula Le Guin The caress / Greg Egan A braver thing / Charles Sheffield We see things differently / Bruce Sterling And the angels sing / Kate Wilhelm Past magic / Ian R. MacLeod Bears discover fire / Terry Bisson The all-consuming / Lucius Shepard and Robert Frazier Personal silence / Molly Gloss Invaders / John Kessel The Cairene purse / Michael Moorcock The coon rolled down and ruptured his larinks : a squeezed novel by Mr. Skunk / Dafydd ab Hugh Tower of Babylon / Ted Chiang The death artist / Aleaxander Jablokov The first since ancient Persia / John Brunner Inertia / Nancy Kress Learning to be me / Greg Egan Cibola / Connie Willis Walking the moons / Jonathan Letham Rainmaker cometh / Ian McDonald Hot sky / Robert Silverberg White city / Lewis Shiner Love and sex among the invertebrates / Pat Murphy The Hemingway hoax / Joe Haldeman