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• ix • Acknowledgments (The Year's Best Science Fiction Twenty-Third Annual Collection) • (2006) • essay by Gardner Dozois
• xi • Summation: 2005 • (2006) • essay by Gardner Dozois
• 1 • The Little Goddess • [India 2047] • (2005) • novella by Ian McDonald
• 36 • The Calorie Man • [The Windup Universe] • (2005) • novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• 61 • Beyond the Aquila Rift • (2005) • novelette by Alastair Reynolds
• 88 • Second Person, Present Tense • (2005) • novelette by Daryl Gregory
• 106 • The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Back from the Stars • (2005) • short story by Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold (variant of The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Home from the Stars)
• 123 • Triceratops Summer • (2005) • short story by Michael Swanwick
• 136 • Camouflage • [The Great Ship Universe] • (2005) • novella by Robert Reed
• 183 • A Case of Consilience • (2005) • short story by Ken MacLeod
• 195 • The Blemmye's Strategem • (2005) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
• 222 • Amba • (2005) • novelette by William Sanders
• 248 • Search Engine • (2005) • novelette by Mary Rosenblum
• 264 • Piccadilly Circus • [Outsiders] • (2005) • short story by Chris Beckett
• 280 • In the Quake Zone • (2005) • novella by David Gerrold
• 359 • La Malcontenta • (2005) • short story by Liz Williams
• 366 • The Children of Time • (2005) • short story by Stephen Baxter
• 379 • Little Faces • [Little Faces] • (2005) • novelette by Vonda N. McIntyre
• 407 • Comber • (2005) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 415 • Audubon in Atlantis • [Lost Continent of Atlantis] • (2005) • novella by Harry Turtledove
• 457 • Deus Ex Homine • (2005) • short story by Hannu Rajaniemi
• 469 • The Great Caruso • (2005) • short story by Steven Popkes
• 484 • Softly Spoke the Gabbleduck • [Polity Universe] • (2005) • novelette by Neal Asher
• 503 • Zima Blue • (2005) • novelette by Alastair Reynolds
• 521 • Planet of the Amazon Women • (2005) • novelette by David Moles
• 545 • The Clockwork Atom Bomb • (2005) • short story by Dominic Green
• 561 • Gold Mountain • [Celestial Empire] • (2005) • short story by Chris Roberson
• 576 • The Fulcrum • [Buonarotti Transit] • (2005) • novelette by Gwyneth Jones
• 602 • Mayfly • (2005) • short story by Derryl Murphy and Peter Watts
• 615 • Two Dreams on Trains • (2005) • short story by Elizabeth Bear
• 622 • Angel of Light • (2005) • short story by Joe Haldeman
• 629 • Burn • (2005) • novella by James Patrick Kelly
• 711 • Honourable Mentions: 2005 • (2006) • essay by Gardner Dozois (variant of Honorable Mentions: 2005)