David Hartwell (Ed)'s "Year's Best SF 6": Volume 6 of annual anthology series, 27 stories

Stories are ranked 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 I am aware that author or publisher have made a story available for free on the web, I prefix the entry with "*", & provide a link both here & in story review.

Stories collected were each published during the year 2000.

1. * Stephen Baxter's "Sheena 5" (A); Analog, May 2000; download: Humans inadvertently bootstrap very dangerous sentient species.
2. * David Brin's "Reality Check" (C); Nature magazine, 16 March 2000; download: A stupid answer to "why haven't we met aliens yet?"
3. Paul J McAuley's "Reef": Not read.
4. Robert Silverberg's "The Millenium Express"; Playboy: Not read.
5. Tananarive Due's "Patient Zero"; F&SF: Not read.
6. Ken MacLeod's "The Oort Cloud"; Nature magazine: Not read.
7. M Shayne Bell's "The Thing About Benny": Not read.
8. Brian Stableford's "The Last Supper": Not read.
9. Joan Slonczewski's "Tuberculosis Bacteria Join UN"; Nature magazine: Not read.
10. Howard Waldrop's "Our Mortal Span": Not read.
11. David Langford's "Different Kinds of Darkness"; F&SF: Not read.
12. Norman Spinrad's "New Ice Age, or Just Cold Feet?"; Nature magazine: Not read.
13. Stephen Dedman's "The Devotee": Not read.
14. Chris Beckett's "The Marriage of Sky and Sea"; Interzone: Not read.
15. John M Ford's "In the Days of the Comet"; Nature magazine: Not read.
16. Ursula K Le Guin's "The Birthday of the World"; F&SF: Not read.
17. * Greg Egan's "Oracle"; Asimov's, download: Not read.
18. Nancy Kress' "To Cuddle Amy"; Asimov's: Not read.
19. Brian W Aldiss' "Steppenpferd"; F&SF: Not read.
20. Darrel Schweitzer's "The Fire Eggs"; Interzone: Not read.
21. Robert Sheckley's "The New Horla"; F&SF: Not read.
22. Dan Simmons' "Madame Bovary, C'est Moi"; Nature magazine: Not read.
23. Robert Reed's "Grandma's Jumpman": Not read.
24. Chris Dexter Ward's "Bordeaux Mixture"; Nature magazine: Not read.
25. Robert Charles Wilson's "The Dryad's Wedding": Not read.
26. Michael F Flynn's "Built Upon the Sands of Time"; Analog: Not read.
27. Ted Chiang's "Seventy-Two Letters": Not read.

First published: 2001
See also: Entire anthology series.