The thirteenth annual collection of the previous year's finest short-form sf is at hand. Once again, award winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer have gathered together a stunning array of science fiction that spans a veritable universe of astonishing visions and bold ideas. Hitherto unexplored galaxies of the mind are courageously traversed by some of the most exciting talents in the field - while well-established masters rocket to remarkable new heights of artistry and originality. The stars are closer and more breathtaking than ever bore - and a miraculous future now rests in your hands - within the pages of Year's Best SF 13.

Contains:

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Baby Doll by Johanna Sinisalo
• Aristotle OS by Tony Ballantyne
• The Last American by John Kessel
• Memorare by Gene Wolfe
• Plotters and Shooters by Kage Baker
• Repeating the Past by Peter Watts
• No More Stories by Stephen Baxter
• They Came from the Future by Robyn Hitchcock
• The Tomb Wife by Gwyneth Jones
• An Evening's Honest Panic by Marc Laidlaw
• End Game by Nancy Kress
• Induction by Greg Egan
• A Blue and Cloudless Sky by Bernhard Ribbeck
• Reasons Not to Publish by Gregory Benford
• Objective Impermeability in a Closed System by William Shunn
• Always by Karen Joy Fowler
• Who's Afraid of Wolf 359 by Ken MacLeod
• Artifice and Intelligence by Tim Pratt
• Pirates of the Somali Coast by Terry Bisson
• Sanjeev and Robotwallah by ian McDonald
• Third Person by Tony Ballantyne
• The Bridge by Kathleen Ann Goonan
• As You Know, Bob by John Hemry
• The Lustration by Bruce Sterling
• How Music Begins by James Van Pelt

Edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer