Year's Best SF 15 (Jonathan Hamilton #2 - One of Our Bastards Is Missi)

Who knows what awaits us tomorrow?

Much of the most innovative and exhilarating work performed in the boundary-less arena of SF is being done in the short form. This year's magnificent harvest--gathered, as always, by acclaimed award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer--offers glimpses of worlds and tomorrows that would have been inconceivable just a few years ago. Brilliant, bold, unusual, and soaring flights into the hitherto unforeseen yet increasingly possible future, Year's Best SF 15 offers truly breathtaking stories by some of speculative fiction's brightest lights, including

Stephen Baxter
Nancy Kress
Alastair Reynolds
Geoff Ryman
Bruce Sterling
Peter Watts
Robert Charles Wilson
Gene Wolfe

and others.

Contents
xiii • Introduction (Year's Best SF 15) • essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
1 • Infinities • (2008) • novelette by Vandana Singh
35 • This Peaceable Land; or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe • (2009) • novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
65 • The Unstrung Zither • (2009) • novelette by Yoon Ha Lee
91 • Black Swan • (2009) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
119 • Exegesis • (2009) • shortstory by Nancy Kress
125 • Erosion • (2009) • shortstory by Ian Creasey
141 • Collision • (2009) • shortstory by Gwyneth Jones
155 • Donovan Sent Us • (2009) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe
173 • The Calculus Plague • (2009) • shortstory by Marissa Lingen [as by Marissa K. Lingen ]
181 • The Island • (2009) • novelette by Peter Watts
222 • One of Our Bastards Is Missing • (2009) • novelette by Paul Cornell
251 • Lady of the White-Spired City • (2009) • shortstory by Sarah L. Edwards
271 • The Highway Code • (2009) • novelette by Brian Stableford
292 • On the Destruction of Copenhagen by the War-Machines of the Merfolk • (2009) • shortstory by Peter M. Ball
299 • The Fixation • (2009) • shortstory by Alastair Reynolds
318 • In Their Garden • (2009) • shortstory by Brenda Cooper
328 • Blocked • (2009) • shortstory by Geoff Ryman
349 • The Last Apostle • (2009) • shortstory by Michael Cassutt
373 • Another Life • (2009) • novelette by Charles Oberndorf
407 • The Consciousness Problem • (2009) • shortstory by Mary Robinette Kowal
427 • Tempest 43 • (2009) • novelette by Stephen Baxter
447 • Bespoke • (2009) • shortstory by Genevieve Valentine
457 • Attitude Adjustment • (2009) • shortstory by Eric James Stone
470 • Edison's Frankenstein • (2009) • novelette by Chris Roberson