Here is a collection of the best science fiction prose written in 2004, by some of the genre's greatest writers, and selected by two of science fiction's and fantasy's most respected editors

Contents

• The Best Christmas Ever by James Patrick Kelly
• The Voluntary State by Christopher Rowe
• The Lost Pilgrim by Gene Wolfe
• Memento Mori by Joe Haldeman
• PeriAndry’s Quest by Stephen Baxter
• Three Days in a Border Town by Jeff Vandermeer
• Elector by Charles Stross
• Opal Ball by Robert Reed
• My Mother, Dancing by Nancy Kress
• The People of Sand and Slag by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Tourists by M. John Harrison
• All of Us Can Almost... by Carol Emshwiller
• The Tang Dynasty Underwater Pyramid by Walter Jon Williams