Contents
The book includes a 30-page summation by Dozois; 29 stories, all that first appeared in 2005, and each with a two-paragraph introduction by Dozois; and a ten-page referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows.
- Ian McDonald: "The Little Goddess"
- Paolo Bacigalupi: "The Calorie Man"
- Alastair Reynolds: "Beyond the Aquila Rift"
- Daryl Gregory: "Second Person, Present Tense"
- Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold: "The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Back From the Stars"
- Michael Swanwick: "Triceratops Summer"
- Robert Reed: "Camouflage"
- Ken MacLeod: "A Case of Consilience"
- Bruce Sterling: "The Blemmye's Strategem"
- William Sanders: "Amba"
- Mary Rosenblum: "Search Engine"
- Chris Beckett: "Picadilly Circus"
- David Gerrold: "In the Quake Zone"
- Liz Williams: "La Malcontenta"
- Stephen Baxter: "The Children of Time"
- Vonda N. McIntyre: "Little Faces"
- Gene Wolfe: "Comber"
- Harry Turtledove: "Audubon in Atlantis"
- Hannu Rajaniemi: "Deus Ex Homine"
- Steven Popkes: "The Great Caruso"
- Neal Asher: "Softly Spoke the Gabbleduck"
- Alastair Reynolds: "Zima Blue"
- David Moles: "Planet of the Amazon Women"
- Dominic Green: "The Clockwork Atom Bomb"
- Chris Roberson: "Gold Mountain"
- Gwyneth Jones: "The Fulcrum"
- Peter Watts and Derryl Murphy: "Mayfly"
- Elizabeth Bear: "Two Dreams on Trains"
- Joe Haldeman: "Angel of Light"
- James Patrick Kelly: "Burn"
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