Editor Jonathan Strahan has posted the udated tables of contents (see the old ones) for the two annual anthologies he formerly published through iBooks, but now (since iBooks went belly-up) will be published through Locus Press.

Some of the stories are available online and there are quite a few Hugo, Nebula and Locus Award nominees in the bunch – all noted below.

SCIENCE FICTION: THE VERY BEST OF 2005

  1. “Triceratops Summer” by Michael Swanwick (Locus nominee)
  2. “Little Faces” by Vonda N. McIntyre
  3. “The Second Coming of Charles Darwin” by James Morrow
  4. “Is There Life After Rehab?” by Pat Cadigan
  5. “Understanding Space and Time” by Alastair Reynolds
  6. “The Fulcrum” by Gwyneth Jones
  7. “The Blemmye’s Dilemma” by Bruce Sterling
  8. “They Will Raise You in a Box” by Wil McCarthy
  9. “Finished” by Robert Reed
  10. “The King of Where-I-Go” by Howard Waldrop (Hugo and Locus nominee)
  11. “The Calorie Man” by Paolo Bacigalupi (Hugo nominee)
  12. “The Fate of Mice” by Susan Palwick
  13. “I Robot” by Cory Doctorow (Hugo and Locus nominee)
  14. “The Little Goddess” by Ian McDonald (Hugo nominee)

FANTASY: THE VERY BEST OF 2005

  1. “Two Hearts” by Peter S. Beagle (Hugo and Locus nominee)
  2. “Snowball’s Chance” by Charles Stross
  3. “Sunbird” by Neil Gaiman (Locus nominee)
  4. “A Knot of Toads” by Jane Yolen (Locus nominee)
  5. “Boatman’s Holiday” by Jeffrey Ford (Locus nominee)
  6. “The Language of Moths” by Christopher Barzak
  7. “Anyway” by M Rickert
  8. “The Emperor of Gondwanaland” by Paul Di Filippo (Locus nominee)
  9. “The Pirate’s True Love” by Seana Graham
  10. “Intelligent Design” by Ellen Klages
  11. “Pip and the Fairies” by Theodora Goss
  12. “Leviathan” by Simon Brown
  13. “The Denial” by Bruce Sterling
  14. “The Farmer’s Cat” by Jeff VanderMeer
  15. “There’s a Hole in the City” by Richard Bowes (Nebula nominee)
  16. “Monster” by Kelly Link

Related posts:

  1. TOCs for Strahan’s & Haber’s Best of 2005 Anthologies
  2. Free 2005 Nebula Nominees Online
  3. Three New Years-Best Genre Anthologies are Launched
  4. NOMINATIONS: 2005 Hugos and John W. Campbell Award
  5. Amazon’s Editors Pick Top 10 SF/F Titles for 2005

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