Gardner Dozois (Ed)'s "The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels": 12 novellas

I list the contents by quality, best first. My rating follows in brackets - where I have read the story. Links on individual stories are to my reviews, if I have posted one.

If the author or publisher have made a book available for free download, & I am aware of it, I provide a link either here or in appropriate review article. Prefix "*" marks such entries.

1. Alastair Reynolds's "Turquoise Days" (B): A water world with planet scale hive intelligence, & its interactions with humans.
2. Robert Silverberg's "Sailing to Byzantium": not read.
3. Michael Swanwick's "Griffin's Egg": not read.
4. Joe Haldeman's "The Hemingway Hoax": not read.
5. Nancy Kress's "Beggars in Spain": not read.
6. Ian McDonald's "Tendeléo's Story": not read.
7. James Patrick Kelly's "Mr Boy": not read.
8. Frederik Pohl's "Outnumbering the Dead": not read.
9. * Ian R MacLeod's "New Light on the Drake Equation"; scifi.com, online: not read.
10. Ursula K Le Guin's "Forgiveness Day": not read.
11. Maureen F McHugh's "The Cost to Be Wise": not read.
12. Walter Jon Williams's "Surfacing": not read.
    

Fact sheet.
Editor: Gardner Dozois
First published: 2007
See also: Gardner Dozois's "Year's Best" & "Best of Best" anthology series.
Series: Vol 1 (short stories, 2005), Vol 2 (novellas, 2007)