Year's Best SF 12

A banner year for bold, provocative, brilliantly inventive science fiction has produced some of the most enthrallingly original short sf since the genre's conception. In their twelfth remarkable collection of the very best of the last twelve months, award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer present amazing stories of galaxy-shaking events, alien contact, utopian science, and technology run amok: tales that celebrate the continually evolving literary artistry of some of the form's finest, most respected practitioners . . . while showcasing the magnificent talents of the science fiction superstars of the near future.Contents viii • Acknowledgments (Year's Best SF 12) • essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer ix • Introduction (Year's Best SF 12) • essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer 1 • Nano Comes to Clifford Falls • (2006) • shortstory by Nancy Kress 21 • Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? • (2006) • shortstory by Terry Bisson 33 • When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth • (2006) • novelette by Cory Doctorow 74 • Just Do It! • (2006) • shortstory by Heather Lindsley 89 • Counterfactual • (2006) • novelette by Gardner Dozois [as by Gardner R. Dozois ] 111 • Moon Does Run • (2006) • shortstory by Edd Vick 124 • Home Movies • (2006) • novelette by Mary Rosenblum 157 • Chu and the Nants • (2006) • shortstory by Rudy Rucker 174 • Silence in Florence • (2006) • shortstory by Ian Creasey 188 • The Women of Our Occupation • (2006) • shortstory by Kameron Hurley 197 • This Is the Ice Age • (2006) • shortstory by Claude Lalumière 210 • Speak, Geek • (2006) • shortstory by Eileen Gunn 214 • Expedition, with Recipes • (2006) • shortstory by Joe Haldeman 221 • The Age of Ice • (2006) • shortstory by Liz Williams 233 • Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth • (2006) • novella by Michael F. Flynn [as by Michael Flynn ] 282 • Applied Mathematical Theology • (2006) • shortstory by Gregory Benford 286 • Quill • (2006) • novelette by Carol Emshwiller 313 • Tiger, Burning • (2006) • novelette by Alastair Reynolds 342 • Dead Men Walking • (2006) • novelette by Paul J. McAuley 364 • Damascus • (2006) • novelette by Daryl Gregory 399 • Tin Marsh • (2006) • novelette by Michael Swanwick 421 • Taking Good Care of Myself • (2006) • shortstory by Ian R. MacLeod 425 • The Lowland Expedition • [Old Earth] • (2006) • shortstory by Stephen Baxter 444 • Heisenberg Elementary • (2006) • shortstory by Wil McCarthy 449 • Rwanda • (2006) • shortstory by Robert Reed 459 • Preemption • (2006) • shortstory by Charlie Rosenkrantz