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• ix • Introduction (Year's Best SF 4) • (1999) • essay by David G. Hartwell
• 1 • Market Report • (1998) • novelette by Alexander Jablokov
• 31 • A Dance to Strange Musics • (1998) • novelette by Gregory Benford
• 65 • The Year of the Mouse • (1998) • short story by Norman Spinrad
• 75 • The Day Before They Came • (1998) • short story by Mary Soon Lee
• 83 • This Side of Independence • (1998) • short story by Rob Chilson
• 103 • The Twelfth Album • (1998) • short story by Stephen Baxter
• 119 • Story of Your Life • (1998) • novella by Ted Chiang
• 183 • Whiptail • (1998) • short story by Robert Reed
• 209 • The Eye of God • (1998) • novelette by Mary Rosenblum
• 243 • Rules of Engagement • (1998) • novelette by Michael F. Flynn
• 269 • Radiant Doors • (1998) • short story by Michael Swanwick
• 291 • Unravelling the Thread • (1998) • short story by Jean-Claude Dunyach (trans. of
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• 303 • That Thing Over There • (1998) • short story by Dominic Green
• 323 • The Allies • (1998) • novelette by Mark S. Geston
• 377 • My Pal Clunky • (1998) • short story by Ron Goulart
• 397 • Life in the Extreme • [Uplift Universe] • (1998) • short story by David Brin
• 417 • Near Enough to Home • (1998) • short story by Michael Skeet
• 437 • A Game of Consequences • (1998) • short story by David Langford
• 451 • State of Nature • (1998) • short story by Nancy Kress
• 461 • Maneki Neko • (1998) • short story by Bruce Sterling