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• vi • Introduction (Fantasy: The Best of 2001) • essay by Karen Haber and Robert Silverberg
• 1 • The Bones of the Earth • [Earthsea Cycle] • (2001) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 27 • Legerdemain • (2001) • novelette by Jack O'Connell
• 64 • Diving the Coolidge • (2001) • novelette by Brian A. Hopkins
• 95 • The Mould of Form • (2001) • short story by Rosemary Edghill
• 117 • Eternity and Afterward • (2001) • novella by Lucius Shepard
• 239 • Wolves Till the World Goes Down • (2001) • short story by Greg van Eekhout
• 257 • The Lady of the Winds • [Cappen Varra] • (2001) • novelette by Poul Anderson
• 314 • Ave de Paso • [Skolian Short Fiction • 13] • (2001) • short story by Catherine Asaro
• 335 • Grass • (2001) • short story by Lawrence Miles
• 361 • Slipshod, at the Edge of the Universe • (2001) • short story by Robert Thurston
• 375 • Hell Is the Absence of God • (2001) • novelette by Ted Chiang