My "best of the year" picks: 2013

The list is in order in which I found the stories. Stories were all originally published during 2013.

The list.

Links on author or publisher name fetch more matching fiction. Where I have a separate post on the story, link on story title goes there. If I'm aware of an online copy, I include download link too.

1. [novelette] Mark Niemann-Ross' "A Cup of Dirt"; Analog, June: Turning dirt into soil...
2. [ss] Carrie Vaughn's "The Best We Can"; download; Tor.com, 17 July; first contact, hard sf: When an alien Voyager reached our backyard...
3. [ss] Harry Turtledove's "It's the end of the World as We Know It, And We Feel Fine"; Analog, March: Dog is to Man as Man is to... 
4. [novelette] Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling"; download; Subterranean, Fall: On the fallibility of human memory...
5. [ff] Brian Clegg's "Quis custodiet?"; download; Nature, 3 October; humor: "Perfect dictatorship" vs democracy...
6. [ss] Kenneth Schneyer's "Life of the Author Plus Seventy"; Analog, September; humor: Legal implications of human hibernation...

Related.

1. Fiction originally published during 2013.
   
2. My "best of the year" 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 picks.
3. "Best of" lists.

Legend: ss = short story; ff = flash fiction.