Introduction
The Best Science Fiction of the Year Three
KEN MACLEOD
Dolly
ELIZABETH BEAR
Altogether Elsewhere, Vast Herds of Reindeer
KEN LIU
Tethered
MERCURIO D. RIVERA
Wahala
NNEDI OKORAFOR
Laika’s Ghost
KARL SCHROEDER
Ragnarok
PAUL PARK
Six Months, Three Days
CHARLIE JANE ANDERS
“And Weep Like Alexander”
NEIL GAIMAN
The Middle of Somewhere
JUDITH MOFFETT
Mercies
GREGORY BENFORD
The Education of Junior Number 12
MADELINE ASHBY
Our Candidate
ROBERT REED
Thick Water
KAREN HEULER
The War Artist
TONY BALLANTYNE
The Master of the Aviary
BRUCE STERLING
Home Sweet Bi’Ome
PAT MACEWEN
For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I’ll Not Be Back Again
MICHAEL SWANWICK
The Ki-anna
GWYNETH JONES
Eliot Wrote
NANCY KRESS
The Nearest Thing
GENEVIEVE VALENTINE
A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel
YOON HA LEE
The Conflagration
Alphabets
Codices
The Dancers
The Profit Motive
The Inescapable Experiment
One Final Constant
FOR SAM KABO ASHWELL
The Ice Owl
CAROLYN IVES GILMAN
About the Authors