Gardner Dozois's "The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection" (2007): 28 stories

Note: 2008 edition (Vol 25) annotated ToC - in case you mistakenly landed at this page.
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Below is the list of stories included, with brief one line summary on the ones I have read. My rating is in brackets. Where I have posted a review of an individual story, link on story title takes you there.

Some of the included stories are available online. Where I am aware of it, I provide the link either here or in my review of story. Such entries are prefixed with a "*".

This list is ordered by quality - best stories first.

1. * Robert Charles Wilson's "Julian : A Christmas Story": (A): A medieval society follows the exhaustion of earth's oil resources.
2. * Paolo Bacigalupi's "Yellow Card Man" (B), Asimov's Dec 2006: Man becomes beast. A refugee story, & of a loser. But by & large, quite realistic.
3. * Bruce McAllister's "Kin" (B), Asimov's Feb 2006: A loner gets emotional on finding kinship.
4. * Ian McDonald's "The Djinn's Wife" aka "Little Goddess" (C), Asimov's July 2006: Marriage of a woman to a robot gone sour.
5. * Benjamin Rosenbaum's "The House Beyond Your Sky" (C), Strange Horizons 4 Sep 2006: A complicated religious tale on what is god & where we came from.
6. * Cory Doctorow's "I, Row-Boat", Jan 2007, online: not read.
7. * Michael Swanwick's "Tin Marsh": Asimov's Aug 2006, online. not read.
   
8. Kage Baker's "Where the Golden Apples Grow", 2006: not read.
9. Alastair Reynolds's "Signal to Noise", 2006: not read.
10. Jay Lake & Ruth Nestvold's "The Big Ice", Jim Baen's Universe, Dec 2006: not read.
11. Gregory Benford's "Bow Shock", Baen's Universe June 2006: not read.
    
12. Justin Stanchfield's "In the River", Interzone Aug 2006: not read.
13. Walter Jon Williams' "Incarnation Day", 2006: not read.
14. Greg van Eekhout's "Far as You Can Go", 2006: not read.
15. Robert Reed's "Good Mountain", 2006: not read.
16. * David Levine's "I Hold My Father's Paws", 2006, online: not read.
17. Paul J McAuley's "Dead Men Walking", Asimov's March 2006: not read.
18. Mary Rosenblum's "Home Movies", Asimov's April-May 2006: not read.
19. Daryl Gregory's "Damascus", F&SF Feb 2006: not read.
20. Jack Skillingstead's "Life on the Preservation", Asimov's 2006: not read.
21. * Greg Egan's "Riding the Crocodile" aka "Incandescence", Jan 2006, online: not read.
22. Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette's "The Ile of Dogges", 2006: not read.
23. Ken MacLeod's "The Highway Men", 2006: not read.
24. Stephen Baxter's "The Pacific Mystery", 2006: not read.
25. Carolyn Ives Gilman's "Okanoggan Falls", F&SF Aug 2006: not read.
26. John Barnes's "Every Hole is Outlined", Jim Baen's Universe Oct 2006: not read.
27. * A M Dellamonica's "The Town on Blighted Sea", Strange Horizons 21 Aug 2006, online part 1 & 2: not read.
28. Alastair Reynolds's "Nightingale" aka "Revelation Space", 2006: not read.
    

Fact sheet.
Editor: Gardner Dozois
First published: July 10, 2007
See also: Gardner Dozois's "Year's Best" & "Best of Best" anthology series.