TOC: ‘Year’s Best SF 18’ Edited by David G. Hartwell

SF Scope has posted the table of contents for the upcoming anthology Year’s Best SF 18 edited by David G. Hartwell.

Here’s the book description:

Once again, the finest short-form SF offerings of the year have been collected in a single volume.

With Year’s Best SF 18, acclaimed, award-winning editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell demonstrates the amazing depth and power of contemporary speculative fiction, showcasing astonishing stories from some of science fiction’s most respected names as well as exciting new writers to watch. In this anthology, prepare to travel light years from the ordinary into a tomorrow at once breathtaking, frightening, and possible with some of the greatest tales of wonder published in 2012.

Here’s the table of contents…

1. “Old Paint” by Megan Lindholm
2. “The Ghosts of Christmas” by Paul Cornell
3. “Prayer” by Robert Reed
4. “The Battle of Candle Arc” by Yoon Ha Lee
5. “Dormanna” by Gene Wolfe
6. “Holmes Sherlock: a Hwarhath Mystery” by Eleanor Arnason
7. “Electrica” by Sean McMullen Electrica
8. “Perfect Day” by C.S. Freidman
9. “Swift as a Dream and Fleeting as a Sigh” by John Barnes
10. “Liberty’s Daughter” by Naomi Kritzer
11. “Weep for Day” by Indrapramit Das
12. “In Plain Sight” by Pat Cadigan
13. “Application” by Lewis Shiner
14. “A Love Supreme” by Kathleen Ann Goonan
15. “Close Encounters” by Andy Duncan
16. “Two Sisters in Exile” by Aliette de Bodard
17. “Waves” by Ken Liu
18. “The North Revena Ladies Literary Society” by Catherine Shaffer
19. “Antarctica Starts Here” by Paul McAuley
20. “Bricks, Sticks, Straw” by Gwyneth Jones”
21. “The Sigma Structure Symphony” by Gregory Benford
22. “Glass Future” by Deborah Walker
23. “If Only” by Tony Ballantyne
24. “The Woman Who Shook the World Tree” by Michael Swanwick
25. “Nahiku West” by Linda Nagata
26. “Houseflies” by Joe Pitkin
27. “Branches on My Back, Sparrows in My Ear” by Nikki J. North
28. “The Peak of Eternal Light” by Bruce Sterling

Book info as per Amazon US:

• Publisher: Tor Books (December 10, 2013)
• ISBN-10: 0765338203
• ISBN-13: 978-0765338204