David Hartwell (Ed)'s "Year's Best SF 4": Volume 4 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.

Stories collected were each published during the year 1998.

1. Alexander Jablokov's "Market Report"; Asimov's: Not read.
2. Gregory Benford's "A Dance to Strange Music": Not read
3. Norman Spinrad's "The Year of the Mouse"; Asimov's: Not read
4. Mary Soon Lee's "The Day Before They Came"; Interzone: Not read
5. Rob Chilson's "The Side of Independence"; F&SF: Not read
6. Stephen Baxter's "The Twelfth Album"; Interzone: Not read
7. Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life": Not read
8. Robert Reed's "Whiptail"; Asimov's: Not read
9. Mary Rosenblum's "The Eye of God"; Asimov's: Not read
10. Michael F Flynn's "Rules of Engagement"; Analog: Not read
11. Michael Swanwick's "Radiant Doors"; Asimov's: Not read
12. Jean-Claude Dunyach's "Déchiffrer la Trame", translated to English as "Unraveling the Thread": Not read
13. Dominic Green's "That Thing Over There"; Interzone: Not read
14. Mark S Geston's "The Allies"; F&SF: Not read
15. Ron Goulart's "My Pal Clunky"; Analog: Not read
16. David Brin's "Life in the Extreme": Not read
17. Michael Skeet's "Near Enough to Home": Not read
18. David Langford's "A Game of Consequences": Not read
19. Nancy Kress' "State of Nature": Not read
20. Bruce Sterling's "Maneki Neko"; F&SF: Not read

First published: 1999
See also: Entire anthology series.