Gardner Dozois' "The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty Second Annual Collection" (2005): 28 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. * Vernor Vinge's "Synthetic Serendipity" (C); online: A world with ubiquitous wearable computing. This story was later expanded to become the novel "Rainbows End" that won Hugo Award 2007.
2. * Pat Murphy's "Inappropriate Behavior"; online: not read.
3. * Benjamin Rosenbaum's "Start the Clock"; online: not read.
   
4. David Moles' "The Third Party"; Asimov's: not read.
   
5. * Christopher Rowe's "The Voluntary State"; online: not read.
   
6. Nancy Kress' "Shiva in Shadow": not read.
7. Paolo Bacigalupi's "The People of Sand and Slag": not read.
8. Michael F Flynn's "The Clapping Hands of God": not read.
9. M John Harrison's "Tourism": not read.
10. * Terry Bisson's "Scout's Honor"; online: not read.
    
11. James Patrick Kelly's "Men Are Trouble"; Asimov's, June 2004: not read.
    
12. Kage Baker's "Mother Aegypt": not read.
13. Mary Rosenblum's "Skin Deep": not read.
14. Vandana Singh's "Delhi": not read.
15. Albert E Cowdrey's "The Tribes of Bela": not read.
16. William Sanders's "Sitka": not read.
17. * Daniel Abraham's "Leviathan Wept"; online: not read.
    
18. Colin P Davies' "The Defenders": not read.
19. Stephen Baxter's "Mayflower II": not read.
20. Caitlin R Kiernan's "Riding the White Bull": not read.
21. Brendan DuBois' "Falling Star": not read.
22. * Robert Reed's "The Dragons of Summer Gulch"; online: not read.
    
23. James L Cambias's "The Ocean of the Blind": not read.
24. Eleanor Arnason's "The Garden: A Hwarhath Science Fiction Romance": not read.
25. Peter F Hamilton's "Footvote": not read.
26. Paul Di Filippo's "Sisyphus and the Stranger": not read.
27. Paul Melko's "Ten Sigmas": not read.
28. Walter Jon Williams's "Investments": not read.

Fact sheet.
Editor: Gardner Dozois
First published: 2005
See also: Gardner Dozois's "Year's Best" & "Best of Best" anthology series.