David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (Ed)'s "Year's Best SF 9": Volume 9 of annual anthology series, 20 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 are available free online. Where I am aware of this, I provide a link - either here or on review page. Such entries are prefixed with a "*".

Stories collected were each published during the year 2003.

1. * Octavia E Butler's "Amnesty", scifi.com, online.
   
2. Geoff Ryman's "Birth Days"
3. Tony Ballantyne's "The Waters of Meribah"
4. * Nancy Kress's "Ej-Es". online as MP3 audio.
   
5. Joe Haldeman's "Four Short Novels"
6. Charles Stross's "Rogue Farm"
7. Angélica Gorodischer's "The Violet's Embryos"
8. Michael Swanwick's "Coyote at the End of History"
9. John Varley's "In Fading Suns and Dying Moons"
10. Gene Wolfe's "Castaway"
11. Gregory Benford's "The Hydrogen Wall"
12. Ricard de la Casa and Pedro Jorge Romero's "The Day We Went Through the Transition"
13. * Cory Doctorow's "Nimby and the Dimension Hoppers". Asimov's. online.
    
14. Robert Reed's "Night of Time"
15. Kage Baker's "A Night on the Barbary Coast"
16. Nigel Brown's "Annuity Clinic"
17. Allen M Steele's "The Madwoman of Shuttlefield"
18. M Rickert's "Bread and Bombs"
19. Stephen Baxter's "The Great Game"
20. Rick Moody's "The Albertine Notes"

See also: Entire anthology series.