Contents

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 Ice Owl

CAROLYN IVES GILMAN

About the Authors

Praise

By the Authors

Copyright

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