The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Three
by Jonathan Strahan, Ted Chiang, Elizabeth Bear, Peter S. Beagle, Jeff VanderMeer, Paolo Bacigalupi, Ian McDonald, Holly Black, John Kessel, Paul McAuley, Garth Nix, Holly Phillips, Stephen Baxter, Stephen King, Robert Reed, Joan Aiken, Margo Lanagan, Ted Kosmatka, Kij Johnson, Rachel Swirsky, Greg Egan, Hannu Rajaniemi, Maureen F. McHugh, M. Rickert, M. Rickert, Richard Bowes, Ken Scholes, Kelly Link
Exhalation / Ted Chiang -- Shoggoths in bloom / Elizabeth Bear -- Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the angel / Peter S. Beagle -- Fixing Hanover / Jeff VanderMeer -- The gambler / Paolo Bacigalupi -- The dust assassin / Ian McDonald -- Virgin / Holly Black -- Pride and Prometheus / John Kessel -- The thought war / Paul McAuley -- Beyond the sea gates of the Scholar Pirates of Sarsköe / Garth Nix -- The small door / Holly Phillips -- Turing's apples / Stephen Baxter -- The New York Times at special bargain rates / Stephen King -- Five thrillers / Robert Reed -- The magician's house / Meghan McCarron -- Goblin music / Joan Aiken -- Machine maid / Margo Lanagan -- The art of alchemy / Ted Kosmatka -- 26 Monkeys, also The abyss / Kij Johnson -- Marry the sun / Rachel Swirsky -- Crystal nights / Greg Egan -- His master's voice / Hannu Rajaniemi -- Special economics / Maureen F. McHugh -- Evidence of love in a case of abandonment / M. Rickert -- From Babel's fall'n glory we fled / Michael Swanwich -- If angels fight / Richard Bowes -- The doom of love in small spaces / Ken Scholes -- Pretty monsters / Kelly Link.