David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (Ed)'s "Year's Best SF 11": Volume 11 of annual anthology series, 31 stories

Stories are ordered by quality, best first. Where I have read the story, my rating follows title, in brackets, followed by a very brief summary. Where I have posted a proper review of story, link on title takes you there.

A few of the stories have been made available online for free by author or publisher. Where I am aware of this, I provide the link either here or in my review article. Such entries are prefixed with a "*".

Stories collected were each published during the year 2005.

1. * Ted Chiang's "What's Expected of Us" (A): No entertainment, but a subtle argument - if you can send a message to past, you have no free will!
2. David Langford's "New Hope for the Dead". Nature magazine.
   
3. Hannu Rajaniemi's "Deus Ex Homine"
4. Gardner R Dozois's "When the Great Days Came". F&SF, 1 Dec 2005.
   
5. Daryl Gregory's "Second Person, Present Tense"
6. Justina Robson's "Dreadnought". Nature magazine.
   
7. * Ken MacLeod's "A Case of Consilience". online.
   
8. * Tobias S Buckell's "Toy Planes". Nature magazine, 13 October 2005. online.
   
9. Neal Asher's "Mason's Rats"
10. * Vonda N McIntyre's "A Modest Proposal". Nature magazine. online.
    
11. Rudy Rucker's "Guadalupe and Hieronymus Bosch"
12. Peter F Hamilton's "The Forever Kitten". Nature magazine.
    
13. Matthew Jarpe's "City of Reason"
14. Bruce Sterling's "Ivory Tower". Nature magazine.
    
15. Lauren McLaughlin's "Sheila"
16. Paul McAuley's "Rats of the System"
17. Larissa Lai's "I Love Liver: A Romance". Nature magazine.
    
18. * James Patrick Kelly's "The Edge of Nowhere". Asimov's June 2005. online as MP3 (link unverified).
    
19. * Michael Swanwick's "Girls and Boys, Come Out to Play". Asimov's. online.
    
20. Stephen Baxter's "Lakes of Light"
21. Oliver Morton's "The Albian Message". Nature magazine.
    
22. Bud Sparhawk's "Bright Red Star"
23. Alaya Dawn Johnson's "Third Day Lights"
24. * Greg Bear's "Ram Shift Phase 2". Nature magazine. online.
    
25. Gregory Benford's "On the Brane"
    
26. R Garcia y Robertson's "Oxygen Rising"
27. Adam Roberts' "And Future King..."
28. Alastair Reynolds's "Beyond the Aquila Rift"
29. * Joe Haldeman's "Angel of Light". Cosmos magazine, Dec 2005. online.
    
30. Liz Williams's "Ikiryoh"
31. * Cory Doctorow's "I, Robot". The Infinite Matrix, 15 Feb 2005. online.
    

See also: Entire anthology series.