Gardner Dozois' "The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection" (2002): 26 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; download link is provided here as well as in my review article.

Stories I have read come first, ranked 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 R MacLeod's "New Light On the Drake Equation"; download; scifi.com: Not read.
   
2. * Michael Cassutt's "More Adventures On Other Planets"; download; scifi.com: Not read.
3. Dan Simmons' "On K2 With Kanakaredes": Not read.
4. * William Sanders' "When This World Is All On Fire"; download; Asimov's: Not read.
5. * Nancy Kress' "Computer Virus"; download; Asimov's: Not read.
6. Geoff Ryman's "Have Not Have": Not read.
7. * Charles Stross' "Lobsters"; download; Asimov's: Is it a part of Accelerando? Not read.
8. * Michael Swanwick's "The Dog Said Bow-Wow"; download; Asimov's: Not read.
9. * Andy Duncan's "The Chief Designer"; download; Asimov's: Not read.
10. Paul Di Filippo's "Neutrino Drag": Not read.
11. Alastair Reynolds' "Glacial": Not read.
12. * Allen M Steele's "The Days Between"; download; Asimov's: Not read.
13. * Howard Waldrop & Leigh Kennedy's "One Horse Town"; download; scifi.com: Not read.
14. Eleanor Arnason's "Moby Quilt": Not read.
15. Robert Reed's "Raven Dream": Not read.
16. James Patrick Kelly's "Undone": Not read.
17. Carolyn Ives Gilman's "The Real Thing": Not read.
18. Maureen F McHugh's "Interview: On Any Given Day": Not read.
19. Ian R MacLeod's "Isabel Of the Fall": Fantasy? Not read.
20. Jim Grimsley's "Into Greenwood": Not read.
21. Michael Blumlein's "Know How, Can Do": Not read.
22. * Simon Ings' "Russian Vine"; download; scifi.com: Not read.
23. Paul McAuley's "The Two Dicks": Not read.
24. Brenda W Clough's "May Be Some Time": Not read.
25. Chris Beckett's "Marcher": Not read.
26. Ken MacLeod's "The Human Front": Not read.

Fact sheet

Editor: Gardner Dozois
First published: 2002
See also: Gardner Dozois's "Year's Best" & "Best of Best" anthology series.