The year's best science fiction - eighth annual collection

Mr. Boy / James Patrick Kelly
The Shobie's story / Ursula Le Guin
The caress / Greg Egan
A braver thing / Charles Sheffield
We see things differently / Bruce Sterling
And the angels sing / Kate Wilhelm
Past magic / Ian R. MacLeod
Bears discover fire / Terry Bisson
The all-consuming / Lucius Shepard and Robert Frazier
Personal silence / Molly Gloss
Invaders / John Kessel
The Cairene purse / Michael Moorcock
The coon rolled down and ruptured his larinks : a squeezed novel by Mr. Skunk / Dafydd ab Hugh
Tower of Babylon / Ted Chiang
The death artist / Aleaxander Jablokov
The first since ancient Persia / John Brunner
Inertia / Nancy Kress
Learning to be me / Greg Egan
Cibola / Connie Willis
Walking the moons / Jonathan Letham
Rainmaker cometh / Ian McDonald
Hot sky / Robert Silverberg
White city / Lewis Shiner
Love and sex among the invertebrates / Pat Murphy
The Hemingway hoax / Joe Haldeman