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• Introduction (Year's Best SF 4) • (1999) • essay by David G. Hartwell
• Market Report • (1998) • novelette by Alexander Jablokov
• A Dance to Strange Musics • (1998) • novelette by Gregory Benford
• The Year of the Mouse • (1998) • short story by Norman Spinrad
• The Day Before They Came • (1998) • short story by Mary Soon Lee
• This Side of Independence • (1998) • short story by Rob Chilson
• The Twelfth Album • (1998) • short story by Stephen Baxter
• Story of Your Life • (1998) • novella by Ted Chiang
• Whiptail • (1998) • short story by Robert Reed
• The Eye of God • (1998) • novelette by Mary Rosenblum
• Rules of Engagement • (1998) • novelette by Michael F. Flynn
• Radiant Doors • (1998) • short story by Michael Swanwick
• Unravelling the Thread • (1998) • short story by Jean-Claude Dunyach (trans. of
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  1997)
• That Thing Over There • (1998) • short story by Dominic Green
• The Allies • (1998) • novelette by Mark S. Geston
• My Pal Clunky • (1998) • short story by Ron Goulart
• Life in the Extreme • [Uplift Universe] • (1998) • short story by David Brin
• Near Enough to Home • (1997) • short story by Michael Skeet
• A Game of Consequences • (1998) • short story by David Langford
• State of Nature • (1998) • short story by Nancy Kress
• Maneki Neko • (1998) • short story by Bruce Sterling