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Halo
Terry Bisson
I Saw the Light
A.M. Dellamonica
A Slow Day at the Gallery
Paul Di Filippo
Ailoura
J.R. Dunn
The Names of All the Spirits
Carol Emshwiller
Grandma
Neal Asher
Snow in the Desert
Greg Egan
Singleton
Robert Onopa
Geropods
Jack Williamson
Afterlife
Gene Wolfe
Shields of Mars
Nancy Kress
Patent Infringement
Michael Moorcock
Lost Sorceress of the Silent Citadel

About the Editors

Books Edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer

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Copyright

About the Publisher

Acknowledgments
The editors would like to thank the short fiction reviewers at Locus, LocusMag.com, and Tangent Online
for their insights, and our editor, Michael Shohl, for editorial help and for shepherding this book through
the publication process.

Introduction
We said last time that 2001 was an excellent year for the science fiction short story. The year 2002 was,
if anything, even better. Many stories were challenging, literate, thought-provoking, and entertaining for
the mind in the ways that make SF a unique genre.
The good news in the book publishing area is that nothing particularly bad happened in 2002. SF
publishing as we have known it is nine mass market publishing lines (Ace, Bantam, Baen, DAW, Del
Rey, Eos, Roc, Tor, WarnerтАФten if you count Pocket BookтАЩs Star Trek line), and those lines continue,
though you will find Ace, Roc, and DAW all part of the Penguin conglomerate, and Bantam and Del Rey
both part of Random House (now so closely allied that a Del Rey hardcover became a Bantam SF