David Hartwell (Ed)'s "Year's Best SF 5": Volume 5 of annual anthology series, 25 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.

Where author or publisher has made a story available online for free, & I am aware of it, I mark it with "* prefix, & provide link either here or in my review article.

Stories collected were each published during the year 1999.

1. * Geoff Ryman's "Everywhere"; Interzone, online: Not read.
2. * Elisabeth Malartre's "Evolution Never Sleeps"; Asimov's, online: Not read.
3. Kim Stanley Robinson's "Sexual Dimorphism": Not read.
4. Robert Reed's "Game of the Century"; F&SF: Not read.
5. Michael Bishop's "Secrets of the Alien Reliquary": It's a poem, not a story. Not read.
6. Sarah Zettel's "Kinds of Strangers"; Analog: Not read.
7. Cory Doctorow's "Visit the Sins"; Asimov's: Not read.
8. * Greg Egan's "Border Guards"; Interzone, online: Not read.
9. * Terry Bisson's "Macs"; F&SF, Nov 1999, online: Not read.
10. Chris Lawson's "Written in Blood"; Asimov's: Not read.
11. Gene Wolfe's "Has Anybody Seen Junie Moon?": Not read.
12. * Robert J Sawyer's "The Blue Planet" (aka "Mars Reacts!"), online: Not read.
13. Mary Soon Lee's "Lifework"; Interzone: Not read.
14. Fred Lerner's "Rosetta Stone": Not read.
15. Brian Aldiss' "An Apollo Asteroid": Not read.
16. Curt Wohleber's "100 Candles": Not read.
17. G David Nordley's "Democritus' Violin"; Analog: Not read.
18. Tom Purdom's "Fossil Games"; Asimov's: Not read.
19. Chris Beckett's "Valour"; Interzone: Not read.
20. Stephen Baxter's "Huddle"; F&SF: Not read.
21. Brian M Stableford's "Ashes and Tombstones": Not read.
22. Michael Swanwick's "Ancient Engines"; Asimov's: Not read.
23. Hiroe Suga's "Freckled Figure"; original in Japanese in 1994; English translation in Interzone in 1999: : Not read.
24. Barry N Malzberg's "Shiva": Not read.
25. Lucy Sussex's "The Queen of Erewhon";F&SF: Not read.
    

First published: 2000
See also: Entire anthology series.