Year's Best Fantasy 5 Table of Contents

Here is the table of contents for The Year's Best Fantasy 5, edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.

Robert Reed "The Dragons of Summer Gulch" (SciFiction.com)

Theodora Goss "Miss Emily Gray" (Alchemy 2)

John Kessel "The Baum Plan for Financial Independence" (SciFiction.com)

Barbara Robson "Lizzy Lou" (Borderlands 3)

Dale Bailey "The End of the World as We Know It" (F&SF October/November)

Kage Baker "Leaving His Cares Behind Him" (Asimov's April/May)

Neil Gaiman "The Problem of Susan" (Flights)

Kim Westwood "Stella’s Transformation" (Encounters)

David D. Levine "Charlie the Purple Giraffe Was Acting Strangely" (Realms of Fantasy June)

Tim Powers "Pat Moore" (Flights)

Kit Reed "Perpetua" (Flights)

Peter S. Beagle "Quarry" (F&SF May)

John Meaney "Diva’s Bones" (Interzone 193 Spring 2004)

Bruce McAllister "The Seventh Daughter" (F&SF April)

Tim Pratt "Life in Stone" (Lenox Avenue 3)

M. Rickert "Many Voices" (F&SF March)

Richard Parks "A Hint of Jasmine" (Asimov's August)

Tanith Lee "Elvenbrood" (The Faery Reel)

Joel Lane "Beyond the River" (Acquainted with the Night)

Patricia A. McKillip "Out of the Woods" (Flights)

Steven Brust "The Man from Shemhaza" (Thieves' World: Enemies of Fortune)

Terry Bisson "Death’s Door" (Flights)

Nalo Hopkinson "The Smile on the Face" (Girls Who Bite Back)

Gene Wolfe "Golden City Far" (Flights)

(I just stood for an hour outside in a snow storm waiting for the school bus to deliver Peter home, so I don't have much to say right now except that it is good to be in out of the cold.)

Comments

[Kathryn Cramer]

The Datlow/Grant&Link TOC is up at
http://www.nightshadebooks.com/discus/messages/233/2058.html?1110382495

[shsilver]

Just this past week, I was looking through what I read last year in order to nominate for the Hugos and noted that I don't think any Thieves World story had been included in a year's best anthology, not because of the stories' quality, but rather because of their dependence on ther rest of the anthologies. It is good to see that streak broken.

[Jonathan Strahan]

It's not the only story from a shared world anthology to be collected in a year's best, though. If you look back, I'm sure Ellen & Terri reprinted a Liavek story or two, and I seem to recall that Silverberg wrote a shared world story that was reprinted too. Either way, it makes for an interesting selection.

And, since I'm commenting here, I should add that I think you've got a fascinating list here, Kathryn. Some stories I loved, some I didn't, but most always stories that I can understand why they're there. And, I think they make for a really interesting snapshot of the year. Hope the book goes gangbusters.

[Kathryn Cramer]

There is a complex and difficult rights issue involving Thieves' World, but we have obtained proper permission.