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• xiii • Introduction (Year's Best SF 8) • essay by Kathryn Cramer and David G. Hartwell
• 2 • In Paradise • (2002) • short story by Bruce Sterling
• 15 • Slow Life • (2002) • novelette by Michael Swanwick
• 42 • Knapsack Poems • [Goxhat] • (2002) • short story by Eleanor Arnason
• 63 • At Dorado • (2002) • short story by Geoffrey A. Landis
• 77 • Coelacanths • (2002) • novelette by Robert Reed
• 106 • Flight Correction • (2002) • short story by Ken Wharton
• 130 • Shoes • (2002) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 138 • The Diamond Drill • (2002) • short story by Charles Sheffield
• 143 • The Seasons of the Ansarac • (2002) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 162 • A Few Kind Words for A. E. Van Vogt • (2002) • poem by Richard Chwedyk
• 166 • Halo • [Macx Family • 4] • (2002) • novelette by Charles Stross
• 206 • I Saw the Light • (2002) • short story by Terry Bisson
• 223 • A Slow Day at the Gallery • (2002) • short story by A. M. Dellamonica
• 241 • Ailoura • (2002) • novelette by Paul Di Filippo
• 276 • The Names of All the Spirits • (2002) • short story by J. R. Dunn
• 302 • Grandma • (2002) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 310 • Snow in the Desert • [Polity Universe] • (2002) • novelette by Neal Asher
• 342 • Singleton • (2002) • novella by Greg Egan
• 403 • Geropods • (2002) • short story by Robert Onopa
• 419 • Afterlife • (2002) • short story by Jack Williamson
• 436 • Shields of Mars • (2002) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 449 • Patent Infringement • (2002) • short story by Nancy Kress
• 459 • Lost Sorceress of the Silent Citadel • (2002) • novelette by Michael Moorcock