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• ix • Introduction (Year's Best SF 9) • essay by Kathryn Cramer and David G. Hartwell
• 1 • Amnesty • (2003) • novelette by Octavia E. Butler
• 32 • Birth Days • (2003) • short story by Geoff Ryman
• 48 • The Waters of Meribah • (2003) • short story by Tony Ballantyne
• 74 • Ej-Es • (2003) • short story by Nancy Kress
• 97 • Four Short Novels • (2003) • short story by Joe Haldeman
• 107 • Rogue Farm • (2003) • short story by Charles Stross
• 126 • The Violet's Embryos • (2003) • novelette by Angélica Gorodischer (trans. of Los embriones del violeta 1973)
• 167 • Coyote at the End of History • (2003) • short story by Michael Swanwick
• 177 • In Fading Suns and Dying Moons • (2003) • novelette by John Varley
• 197 • Castaway • (2003) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 204 • The Hydrogen Wall • (2003) • novelette by Gregory Benford
• 244 • The Day We Went Through the Transition • (2003) • short story by Ricard de la Casa and Pedro Jorge Romero (trans. of El día que hicimos la Transición 1997)
• 270 • Nimby and the Dimension Hoppers • (2003) • short story by Cory Doctorow
• 290 • Night of Time • [The Great Ship Universe] • (2003) • short story by Robert Reed
• 311 • A Night on the Barbary Coast • [The Company Short Fiction] • (2003) • short story by Kage Baker
• 335 • Annuity Clinic • (2003) • short story by Nigel Brown
• 354 • The Madwoman of Shuttlefield • [Coyote Trilogy] • (2003) • novelette by Allen Steele [as by Allen M. Steele]
• 388 • Bread and Bombs • (2003) • short story by M. Rickert
• 404 • The Great Game • [Xeelee] • (2003) • short story by Stephen Baxter
• 426 • The Albertine Notes • (2003) • novella by Rick Moody