Gardner Dozois' "The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty Third Annual Collection" (2006): 30 stories

Note: 2008 edition (Vol 25) annotated ToC - in case you mistakenly landed at this page.
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Below is the full table of contents. Where a story is available as a free download, I mark it with "*" prefix; follow "online" tag for full story text.

Stories I have read come first, ordered by quality - best first; my rating follows (in brackets), plus a very short summary. Where I have posted a review, link on story title takes you there.

1. * Ian McDonald's "The Little Goddess"; Asimov's; online: not read.
2. Paolo Bacigalupi's "The Calorie Man": not read.
3. Alastair Reynolds' "Beyond the Aquila Rift": not read.
4. Daryl Gregory's "Second Person, Present Tense": not read.
5. Jay Lake & Ruth Nestvold's "The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Back from the Stars": not read.
6. Michael Swanwick's "Triceratops Summer": not read.
7. Robert Reed's "Camouflage": not read.
8. * Ken MacLeod's "A Case of Consilience"; online: not read.
9. Bruce Sterling's "The Blemmye's Strategem": not read.
10. William Sanders' "Amba"; Asimov's: not read.
11. Mary Rosenblum's "Search Engine": not read.
12. Chris Beckett's "Piccadilly Circus": not read.
13. David Gerrold's "In the Quake Zone": not read.
14. * Liz Williams' "La Malcontenta"; Strange Horizons, 7 March 2007; online: not read.
15. * Stephen Baxter's "The Children of Time"; Asimov's; online: not read.
16. * Vonda N McIntyre's "Little Faces"; online: not read.
17. Gene Wolfe's "Comber": not read.
18. * Harry Turtledove's "Audubon in Atlantis"; Analog; online: not read.
19. Hannu Rajaniemi's "Deus Ex Homine": not read.
20. Steven Popkes' "The Great Caruso": not read.
21. Neal Asher's "Softly Spoke the Gabbleduck": not read.
22. Alastair Reynolds' "Zima Blue": not read.
23. * David Moles' "Planet of the Amazon Women"; Strange Horizons, 16 May 2005; online: not read.
24. Dominic Green's "The Clockwork Atom Bomb"; Interzone; not read.
25. Chris Roberson's "Gold Mountain": not read.
26. Gwyneth Jones' "The Fulcrum": not read.
27. Peter Watts & Derryl Murphy's "Mayfly": not read.
28. * Elizabeth Bear's "Two Dreams on Trains"; Strange Horizons, 3 January 2005; online: not read.
29. * Joe Haldeman's "Angel of Light"; Cosmos magazine, December 2005; online: not read.
30. * James Patrick Kelly's "Burn"; online: not read.

Fact sheet.
Editor: Gardner Dozois
First published: 2006
See also: Gardner Dozois's "Year's Best" & "Best of Best" anthology series.