2002 Consolidated Recommended Reading List

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Novellas

• "Soul Pipes", Ray Aldridge (F&SF 12/02)
• "The Potter of Bones", Eleanor Arnason (Asimov's 9/02)
• "In Green's Dominion", Dale Bailey (Sci Fiction 6/02)
• Veil of the Soul, Trey R. Barker (Yard Dog Press)
• "The Engine of Desire", William Barton (Asimov's 8/02)
• Riding the Rock, Stephen Baxter (PS Publishing)
• "Unseen Demons", Adam-Troy Castro (Analog 7-8/02)
• The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke, Mark Chadbourn (PS Publishing)
• "Bronte's Egg", Richard Chwedyk (F&SF 8/02)
• "Ransom", Albert Cowdrey (F&SF 3/02)
• "The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines", John Crowley (Conjunctions 39)
• "Breathing in Faces", Peter Crowther (Embrace the Mutation)
• Seven Wild Sisters, Charles de Lint (Subterranean Press)
• A Year in the Linear City, Paul Di Filippo (PS Publishing)
• "The Fool's Tale", L. Timmel Duchamp (Leviathan 3)
• "Singleton", Greg Egan (Interzone 2/02)
• Blood Follows, Steven Erikson (PS Publishing)
• Cape Wrath, Paul Finch (Telos Publishing)
• "Long Meg And Her Daughters", Paul Finch (Children of Cthulhu)
• "A Democracy of Trolls", Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF 10-11/02)
• "The Political Officer", Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF 4/02)
• "In Spirit", Pat Forde (Analog 9/02)
• Coraline, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
• "The Logistics of Carthage", Mary Gentle (Worlds That Weren't)
• "Maternal Instinct", J.F. Gonzalez (Maternal Instinct)
• "The Least Trumps", Elizabeth Hand (Conjunctions 39)
• El Dia de los Muertos, Brian A. Hopkins (Earthling Publications)
• "Stories for Men", John Kessel (Asimov's 10-11/02)
• In the Garden of Poisonous Flowers, Caitlin Kiernan (Subterranean Press)
• "Mr. Gaunt", John Langan (F&SF 9/02)
• "Paradises Lost", Ursula K. Le Guin (The Birthday of the World)
• "My Work Is Not Yet Done", Thomas Ligotti (My Work Is Not Yet Done)
• The Human Front, Ken MacLeod (PS Publishing)
• "Breathmoss", Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov's 5/02)
• "Doctor Pretorius and the Lost Temple", Paul McAuley (Sci Fiction 9/02)
• "The Haunting of Cold Harbour", Todd McAulty (Black Gate Winter 2002)
• The Tain, China Miéville (PS Publishing)
• Firing the Cathedral, Michael Moorcock (PS Publishing)
• The Uglimen, Mark Morris (PS Publishing)
• "Veritas", Robert Reed (Asimov's 7/02)
• Diamond Dogs, Alastair Reynolds (PS Publishing)
• Turquoise Days, Alastair Reynolds (Golden Gryphon)
• "The Imperial Army", Adam Roberts (Spectrum SF #9)
• "Princess Aria", R. Garcia y Robertson (F&SF 7/02)
• "Ring Rats", R. Garcia y Robertson (Asimov's 4/02)
• "The Drive-In Puerto Rico", Lucius Shepard (F&SF 10-11/02)
• "Over Yonder", Lucius Shepard (Sci Fiction 1/02)
• "With Caesar in the Underworld", Robert Silverberg (Asimov's 10-11/02)
• "Across the Eastern Divide", Allen Steel (Asimov's 2/02)
• "Shikari in Galveston", S.M. Sterling (Worlds That Weren't)
• "Router", Charles Stross (Asimov's 9/02)
• "Jury Service", Charles Stross & Cory Doctorow (Sci Fiction 12/02)
• "Angel of the Wall", Byron Tetrick (In the Shadow of the Wall)
• "The Cage", Jeff VanderMeer (City of Saints and Madmen)
• "A Speaker for the Wooden Sea", Ian Watson (Asimov's 3/02)
• "The Memory of Stone", Michelle West (DAW 30th Anniversary: Fantasy)

Novelettes

• "Putting Away Childish Things", John Aegard. (The Third Alternative Summer 2002)
• "Aboard the Beatitude", Brian Aldiss (DAW 30th Anniversary: Science Fiction)
• "Snow in the Desert", Neal Asher (Spectrum SF #8)
• "Death and Suffrage", Dale Bailey (F&SF 2/02)
• "The Likely Lad", Kage Baker (Asimov's 9/02)
• "Teaching the War Robot to Dance", Tony Ballantyne (Interzone 4/02)
• "The Pagodas of Ciboure", M. Shayne Bell (The Green Man)
• "Around the Curve of a Cosmos", Gregory Benford (Sci Fiction 3/02)
• "The Clear Blue Seas of Luna", Gregory Benford (Asimov's 10-11/02)
• "Election Day", Judith Berman (Lord Stink and Other Stories)
• "The Routine", Gala Blau (The Third Alternative Summer 2002)
• "In for a Penny", James P. Blaylock (Sci Fiction 2/02)
• "Lucy Lucy", Shane M. Brown (Aurealis #29)
• "Joshua Tree", Emma Bull (The Green Man)
• "Look Away", Stephen L. Burns (Analog 5/02)
• "Linda", Pat Cadigan (Asimov's 7/02)
• "Zarzuela", Richard Calder (Interzone 4/02)
• "No End of Fun", Ramsey Campbell (Embrace the Mutation)
• "Angles", Orson Scott Card (Angles And Other Stories, Science Fiction: The Best of 2002)
• "The Polish Boy", Orson Scott Card (First Meetings)
• "Teeth", Matt Cardin (Children of Cthulhu)
• "State Secrets of Aphasia", Stepan Chapman (Leviathan 3)
• "Liking What You See: A Documentary", Ted Chiang (Stories of Your Life And Others)
• "Time Spent in Reconnaissance", Mat Coward (Interzone 8/02)
• "The Boy's Got Talent", Albert E. Cowdrey (F&SF 9/02)
• "Somewhere in My Mind There Is a Painting Box", Charles de Lint (The Green Man)
• "Living the Quiet Life", A.M. Dellamonica (Oceans of the Mind Winter 2002)
• "Three Times Over the Falls", A.M. Dellamonica (Sci Fiction 2/02)
• "Mermaid Song", Peter Dickinson (Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits)
• "Ailoura", Paul Di Filippo (Once Upon a Galaxy)
• "A Martian Theodicy", Paul Di Filippo (Mars Probes)
• "Shipbreaker", Paul Di Filippo (Sci Fiction 10/02)
• "0wnz0red", Cory Doctorow (Salon 8/02)
• "The Big Rock Candy Mountain", Andy Duncan (Conjunctions 39)
• "The Names of All the Spirits", J.R. Dunn (Sci Fiction 7/02)
• "Drumlin Boiler", Jeff Duntemann (Asimov's 4/02)
• "Posterity", Christopher Evans (Interzone 9/02)
• "We Come Not to Praise Washington", Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF 8/02)
• "Southern Strategy", Michael F. Flynn (Alternate Generals II)
• "The Green Word", Jeffrey Ford (The Green Man)
• "Something by the Sea", Jeffrey Ford (F&SF 10-11/02)
• "The Weight of Words", Jeffrey Ford (Leviathan 3)
• "The Further Adventures of the Invisible Man", Karen Joy Fowler (Conjunctions 39)
• "Downtime", C.S. Friedman (DAW 30th Anniversary: Science Fiction)
• "Just Another Cowboy", Esther M. Friesner (F&SF 4/02)
• "Men in the Rain", Esther M. Friesner (Asimov's 1/02)
• "Madonna of the Maquiladora", Gregory Frost (Asimov's 5/02)
• "Wooden Horse", John Grant (The Third Alternative Autumn 2002)
• "News from Hilaria", Dominic Green (Interzone 5/02)
• "Pavane for a Prince of the Air", Elizabeth Hand (Embrace the Mutation)
• "The Firebrand Symphony", Brian Hodge (Children of Cthulhu)
• "Nesting Instincts", Brian Hodge (Lies & Ugliness)
• "Communion with the Worm", Brian A. Hopkins (Cemetery Dance #41)
• "The Convert", Simon Ings (Asimov's 12/02)
• "Chichen Itza", Alex Irvine (F&SF 5/02)
• "Jimmy Guang's House of Gladmech", Alex Irvine (Sci Fiction 4/02)
• "The Rain Queen", Charlee Jacob (Extremes 4: Darkest Africa)
• "Window for Anon", Charlee Jacob (Guises)
• "Mama Told Me Not to Come", Bill Johnson (Black Gate Summer 2002)
• "Coventry Boy", Graham Joyce (The Third Alternative Autumn 2002)
• "The Jew of Prague", Nicholas Kaufmann (Stones)
• "Fodder", Brian Keene & Tim Lebbon (Shivers)
• "Luck", James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's 6/02)
• "Watching Matthew", Damon Knight (F&SF 10-11/02)
• "The Most Famous Little Girl in the World", Nancy Kress (Sci Fiction 5/02)
• "The Scent of Rotting Roses", Jay Lake (Strange Horizons 11/02)
• "We're All in This Alone", Philip Lawson (aka Michael Bishop & Paul di Filippo) (Interzone 11-12/02)
• "In the City of Dead Night", Tanith Lee (F&SF 10-11/02)
• "Persian Eyes", Tanith Lee (DAW 30th Anniversary: Fantasy)
• "The Wild Girls", Ursula K. Le Guin (Asimov's 3/02)
• "Catskin", Kelly Link (McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales)
• "Lull", Kelly Link (Conjunctions 39)
• "The Imperfect Instantaneous People Mover", Geoffrey Maloney (Agog! Fantastic Fiction)
• "Neighbors from Hell", Graham Masterton (Cemetery Dance #38)
• "The Assassination of Faustino Malarte", Paul McAuley (Asimov's 7/02)
• "The Passenger", Paul McAuley (Asimov's 3/02)
• "Garbage Day", Wil McCarthy (Analog 12/02)
• "He Died That Day, in Thirty Years", Wil McCarthy (Once Upon a Galaxy)
• "The Hidden Place", Ian McDonald (Asimov's 10-11/02)
• "The Old Cosmonaut and the Construction Worker Dream of Mars", Ian McDonald (Mars Probes)
• "Presence", Maureen McHugh (F&SF 3/02)
• "A Pool in the Desert", Robin McKinley (Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits)
• "Voice of Steel", Sean McMullen (Sci Fiction 8/02)
• "Walk to the Full Moon", Sean McMullen (F&SF 12/02)
• "The Whisper of Discs", John Meaney (Interzone 10/02)
• "Porno in August", Carlton Mellick III (Random Acts of Weirdness)
• "Lost Sorceress of the Silent Citadel", Michael Moorcock (Mars Probes)
• "The Job Interview", Mike Moscoe (Analog 5/02)
• "A Drug on the Market", Kim Newman (Dark Terrors 6)
• "Hounds of Love", Scott Nicholson (The Book of More Flesh)
• "War, Ice, Egg, Universe", G. David Nordley (Asimov's 10-11/02)
• "Principles and Parameters", Meredith L. Patterson (Children of Cthulhu)
• "Cigarettes and Roses", Ben Peek (Passing Strange)
• "Winters Are Hard", Steven Popkes (Sci Fiction 11/02)
• "The Witch's Bicycle", Tim Pratt (Realms of Fantasy 8/02)
• "The Discharge", Christopher Priest (Sci Fiction 2/02)
• "A Champion of Democracy", Tom Purdom (Asimov's 5/02)
• "The Children's Crusade", Robert Reed (Sci Fiction 4/02)
• "Coelacanths", Robert Reed (F&SF 3/02)
• "Lying to Dogs", Robert Reed (Asimov's 12/02)
• "The Majesty of Angels", Robert Reed (F&SF 9/02)
• "Oracles", Robert Reed (Asimov's 1/02)
• "The Real Story", Alastair Reynolds (Mars Probes)
• "Swiftly", Adam Roberts (Sci Fiction 4/02)
• "Death in Love", R. Garcia y Robertson (F&SF 1/02)
• "Hides", Jay Russell (Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters)
• V.A.O., Geoff Ryman (PS Publishing)
• "Empire", William Sanders (Alternate Generals II)
• "A Prayer for Captain La Hire", Patrice E. Sarath (Black Gate Summer 2002)
• "Agamemnon's Run", Robert Sheckley (DAW 30th Anniversary: Science Fiction)
• "Emerald Street Expansions", Lucius Shepard (Sci Fiction 3/02)
• "How Lonesome Heartbreak Changed His Life", Lucius Shepard (Polyphony 1)
• "The Origin", David B. Silva (The Darker Side)
• "Charlie's Away", Midori Snyder (The Green Man)
• "The Essayist in the Wilderness", William Browning Spencer (F&SF 5/02)
• "The Face of an Angel", Brian Stableford (Leviathan 3)
• "A Walk Across Mars", Allen Steele (Mars Probes)
• "Little Red's Tango", Peter Straub (Conjunctions 39)
• "Big Brother Iron", Charles Stross (Toast and Other Rusted Futures)
• "Halo", Charles Stross (Asimov's 6/02)
• "Tourist", Charles Stross (Asimov's 2/02)
• "Bertrand's Bride", Beverly Suarez-Beard (Talebones Fall 2002)
• "Slow Life", Michael Swanwick (Analog 12/02)
• "Klokwerk's Heart", Anna Tambour (Strange Horizons 12/02)
• "Touch Pain", Cecilia Tan (Asimov's 2/02)
• "Partner in Crime", Rajnar Vajra (Analog 10/02)
• "A Flock of Birds", James Van Pelt (Sci Fiction 8/02)
• "Perceptual Set", James Van Pelt (Analog 1/02)
• "The Wages of Syntax", Ray Vukcevich (Sci Fiction 10/02)
• "At the Money", Richard Wadholm (Asimov's 4/02)
• "The Black Wall of Jerusalem", Ian Watson (DAW 30th Anniversary: Science Fiction)
• "A Free Man", Ian Watson (The Third Alternative Spring 2002)
• "Frog Level", Bud Webster (Interzone 11-12/02)
• "Thanksgiving", Leslie What (Sci Fiction 3/02)
• "The Man on the Persian Carpet", Kate Wilhelm (F&SF 2/02)
• "King Rainjoy's Tears", Chris Willrich (F&SF 7/02)
• "From the Cradle", Gene Wolfe (Shelf Life)
• A Walking Tour of the Shambles, Gene Wolfe & Neil Gaiman (American Fantasy)
• "Our Friend Electricity", Ron Wolfe (F&SF 6/02)

Short Stories

• "The Apocrypha According to Cleveland", Daniel Abraham (The Silver Web #15)
• "Ghost Chocolate", Daniel Abraham (Asimov's 8/02)
• "In Father Christmas's Court", Tavis Allison (Asimov's 12/02)
• "Bringweather and the Portal of Giving and Taking", Barth Anderson (Strange Horizons 5/02)
• "The Vanishing Life and Films of Emmanuel Escobada", Anonymous (Nemonymous #2)
• "Knapsack Poems", Eleanor Arnason (Asimov's 5/02)
• "Some Things Don't Wash Off", Joel Arnold (Weird Tales Fall 2002)
• "Miss Parker Down the Bung", Kate Bachus (Strange Horizons 3/02)
• "Her Father's Eyes", Kage Baker (Asimov's 12/02)
• "The Hotel at Harlan's Landing", Kage Baker (Black Projects, White Knights)
• "Sam", Donald Barr (F&SF 6/02)
• "Grubber", Neal Barrett, Jr. (DAW 30th Anniversary: Science Fiction)
• "Right to Life", William Barton (Talebones Spring 2002)
• "Father Muerte and the Theft", Lee Battersby (Aurealis #29)
• "The Dreaming Mould", Stephen Baxter (Interzone 5/02)
• "The Hunters of Pangaea", Stephen Baxter (Analog 12/02)
• "To Become a Warrior", Chris Beckett (Interzone 6-7/02)
• "Sea Change", Michael Belfiore (Strange Horizons 3/02)
• "King of All and the Metal Sentinel", Deborah Biancotti (Agog! Fantastic Fiction)
• "Silicon Cast", Deborah Biancotti (Redsine #7)
• "I Saw the Light", Terry Bisson (Sci Fiction 10/02)
• "Dazzle's Inferno", Scott Bradfield (F&SF 6/02)
• "Mississipeans", John E. Branseum (Rosebud #23)
• "The Fat Suit", Steven Bratman (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #10)
• "The Green Children", Kevin Brockmeier (Arkansas Literary Forum 2002)
• "In Store", Shane M. Brown (Fantastic Metropolis 6/02)
• "Late Returns", Shane M. Brown (Redsine #9)
• "Les Autres", Adam Browne (Redsine #8)
• "Professional Amateurs", Brantley L. Bryant (Fantastic Metropolis 9/02)
• "A Green Thumb", Tobias Buckell (Analog 7-8/02)
• "The Quiet", Kealan-Patrick Burke (The Gallows)
• "A Message to Medicare", Nathan Burrage (Redsine #7)
• "The Thing in the Forest", A.S. Byatt (The New Yorker 6/03/02)
• "A Book, By Its Cover", P.D. Cacek (Shelf Life)
• "Weird Row", Jack Cady (F&SF 9/02)
• "Simon's House of Lipstick", Jonathan Carroll (Conjunctions 39)
• "Disappearances", Mort Castle (Chizine #11)
• "The Comedian", Stepan Chapman (The Silver Web #15)
• "The Silent People", Stepan Chapman (Redsine #7)
• "Little Green Card", Mat Coward (Interzone 10/02)
• "The Last Story", Kristy Dark (The Year's Best Writing)
• "Dolls", Colin P. Davies (3SF #2)
• "Tall Tales on the Iron Horse", Colin P. Davies (Spectrum SF #8)
• "Wastelands", Stephen Dedman (Agog! Fantastic Fiction)
• "A Slow Day at the Gallery", A.M. Dellamonica (Asimov's 10-11/02)
• "Shepherd's Calendar", Alan DeNiro (Strange Horizons 4/02)
• "Torah! Torah! Torah!", Thomas M. Disch (F&SF 4/02)
• "A Short Story", Emma Donoghue (The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits)
• "Stitch", Terry Dowling (Eidolon.net 12/02)
• "The Hanging Curve", Gardner Dozois (F&SF 4/02)
• "The Holy Bright Number (A Charlie Poole Story)", Andy Duncan (Polyphony 1)
• "Never Send to Know for Whom the Lettuce Wilts", Harlan Ellison (F&SF 1/02)
• "Josephine", Carol Emshwiller (Sci Fiction 5/02)
• "Grandma", Carol Emshwiller (F&SF 3/02)
• "Overlooking", Carol Emshwiller (The Green Man)
• "Water Master", Carol Emshwiller (Sci Fiction 2/02)
• "Shamengwa", Louise Erdrich (The New Yorker 12/2/02)
• "Osmund Considers", Timons Esaias (Interzone 5/02)
• "Pawn", Timons Esaias (Interzone 6-7/02)
• "False Vacuum", Gregory Feeley (Beyond the Last Star)
• "Miles to Go", Sheila Finch (F&SF 6/02)
• "Creation", Jeffrey Ford (F&SF 5/02)
• "Summer Afternoon", Jeffrey Ford (...is this a cat?)
• "What's Sure to Come", Jeffrey Ford (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #10)
• "The Green Man", Christopher Fowler (The Third Alternative Summer 2002)
• "What I Didn't See", Karen Joy Fowler (Sci Fiction 7/02)
• "Feeders And Eaters", Neil Gaiman (Keep out the Night)
• "October in the Chair", Neil Gaiman (Conjunctions 39)
• "Pages from a Journal Found in a Shoebox Left in a Greyhound Bus Somewhere Between Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Louisville, Kentucky", Neil Gaiman (Scarlet's Walk Tour Book)
• "Little Dead Girl Singing", Stephen Gallagher (Weird Tales Spring 2002)
• "Anthropology", Victoria Elisabeth Garcia (Polyphony 1)
• "Iron Joan", ElizaBeth Gilligan (Black Gate Winter 2002)
• "Elysian Dream", Alexander Glass (Interzone 2/02)
• "Lucid", Alexander Glass (Interzone 1/02)
• "Lambing Season", Molly Gloss (Asimov's 7/02)
• "The Rapid Advance of Sorrow", Theodora Goss (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #11)
• "The Tile Merchant's Garden", Theodora Goss (Science Fiction Writers of Earth 4/02)
• "The Rose in Twelve Petals", Theodora Goss (Realms of Fantasy 4/02)
• "Tangled Up in Blue", William Grallo (Rosebud #23)
• "Three Nights in Big Rock City", Jon Hansen (Black Gate Winter 2002)
• "Aquerò", Melissa Hardy (The Atlantic Monthly 12/02)
• "Entertaining Angels Unawares", M. John Harrison (Conjunctions 39)
• "Porcelain", James A. Hartley (Fangoria's Frightful Fiction 6/02)
• "Incandescent Bliss", Howard V. Hendrix (Asimov's 6/02)
• "Pull", Brian Hodge (The Darker Side)
• "Some Other Me", Brian Hodge (Lies & Ugliness)
• "Transcendence", Catherine Dybiec Holm (Electric Velocipede #2)
• "Number 7", Robert Hood (Immaterial)
• "Grave Song", Brian A. Hopkins & Richard Wright (The Darker Side)
• "Shift", Nalo Hopkinson (Conjunctions 39)
• "Climbing the Tallest Tree in the World", Rhys Hughes (Nemonymous #2)
• "Robin Hood's New Mother", Rhys Hughes (Redsine #8)
• "Open the Box", Andrew Humphrey (The Third Alternative Winter 2002)
• "Agent Provocateur", Alex Irvine (Strange Horizons 4/02)
• "Uninvited Guests", Tracina Jackson-Adams (Weird Tales Fall 2002)
• "The Plague Species", Charlee Jacob (The Darker Side)
• "The Death of Sappho", Bev Jafek (Thought Magazine Fall/Winter 2002)
• "Wind Down", Trent Jamieson (Aurealis #30)
• "Captains of Industry", Matthew Jarpe (Asimov's 3/02)
• "Natural Order", Michael Jasper (Asimov's 7/02)
• "First, Catch Your Demon", Graham Joyce (Embrace the Mutation)
• "Mudrosti", Richard Kadrey (Infinite Matrix 4/02)
• "Three Stories", Minsoo Kang (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #11)
• "All the World's a Stage", Brian Keene (The Darker Side)
• "Candy Art", James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's 12/02)
• "The Pyramid of Amirah", James Patrick Kelly (F&SF 3/02)
• "White Wave of Mercy", Daniel G. Keohane (Extremes 4: Darkest Africa)
• "The Family Vacation", John Kessel (Infinite Matrix 9/02)
• "The Invisible Empire", John Kessel (Conjunctions 39)
• "Nor the Demons Down Under the Sea", Caitlin Kiernan (Children of Cthulhu)
• "The Road of Pins", Caitlin Kiernan (Dark Terrors 6)
• "A Lesser Michelangelo", T. Jackson King (The Silver Web #15)
• "The Second Rat", David Barr Kirtley (On Spec Spring 2002)
• "A Taste of Summer", Ellen Klages (Black Gate Winter 2002)
• "Travel Agency", Ellen Klages (Strange Horizons 2/02)
• "Mr. Muerte and the Eyeball Kid", Sean Klein (Strange Horizons 8/02)
• "Road Trip", Kathe Koja (World Fantasy Convention 2002 Program Book)
• "Patent Infringement", Nancy Kress (Asimov's 5/02)
• "Comrade Grandmother", Naomi Kritzer (Strange Horizons 9/02)
• "Identity Is a Construct", Douglas Lain (Strange Horizons 1/02)
• "The Subliminal Son", Douglas Lain (The Third Alternative Spring 2002)
• "Jack's House", Jay Lake (Strange Horizons 12/02)
• "The Trick of Disaster", Jay Lake (Ideomancer 4/02)
• "Watch the Pretty Girls, Kid", Jay Lake (The Third Alternative Winter 2002)
• "The Ethical Treatment of Meat", Claude Lalumiere (The Book of More Flesh)
• "At Dorado", Geoffrey Landis (Asimov's 10-11/02)
• "Falling Onto Mars", Geoffrey Landis (Analog 7-8/02)
• "The Long Chase", Geoffrey Landis (Asimov's 2/02)
• "Old Tingo's Penis", Geoffrey Landis (Interzone 8/02)
• "The Receivers", Joel Lane (Dark Terrors 6)
• "Hell Came Down", Tim Lebbon (The Darker Side)
• "Making Fields", Mary Soon Lee (3SF #1)
• "The Black Abacus", Yoon Ha Lee (F&SF 6/02)
• "The Life to Come", Tim Lees (The Third Alternative Winter 2002)
• "The Seasons of the Ansarac", Ursula K. Le Guin (Infinite Matrix 6/02)
• "Social Dreaming of the Frin", Ursula K. Le Guin (F&SF 10-11/02)
• "Spirits of the Flesh", Seth Lindberg (The Darker Side)
• "Maya's Mother", Bentley Little (The Collection)
• "Even a Worm Will Turn", Kristin Livdahl (Rabid Transit)
• "Fee, Fie, Foe, et Cetera", Gregory Maguire (The Green Man)
• "Elecktra Dreams", Geoffrey Maloney (Redsine #8)
• "Beer on Sunday", Nick Mamatas (Horrorfind)
• "Under Mars", Paul McAuley (Mars Probes)
• "Dinner with Gtoim", Wil McCarthy (The Journal of Pulse-Pounding Narratives)
• "In the Murrins", Ian McDowell (Weird Tales Fall 2002)
• "Laika Comes Back Safe", Maureen McHugh (Polyphony 1)
• "Stealing Alice", Claire McKenna (Agog! Fantastic Fiction)
• "Hunter's Moon", Patricia A. McKillip (The Green Man)
• "Within Twilight", Chris McMahon (Redsine #8)
• "Details", China Miéville (Children of Cthulhu)
• "Familiar", China Miéville (Conjunctions 39)
• "Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland", Sarah Monette (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #11)
• "The War of the Worldviews", James Morrow (Mars Probes)
• "Thailand", Haruki Murakami (After the Quake)
• "The Run of the Fiery Horse", Hilary Moon Murphy (Realms of Fantasy 6/02)
• "Egyptian Avenue", Kim Newman (Embrace the Mutation)
• "Ye Olde Ephemera Shoppe", Carol Orlock (The Silver Web #15)
• "The Me After the Rock", Patrick O'Leary (Mars Probes)
• "What Mattered Was Sleep", Patrick O'Leary (Sci Fiction 8/02)
• "Poisoning the Wound", Michael Oliveri (Extremes 4: Darkest Africa)
• "Geropods", Robert Onopa (F&SF 7/02)
• "Attainable Beauty", Monica O'Rourke (Gothic.net 5/02)
• "If Lions Could Speak: Imagining the Alien", Paul Park(Interzone 3/02)
• "Tachycardia", Paul Park (F&SF 1/02)
• "Punishment", Richard Parks (3SF #1)
• "Scratches in the Sky", Ben Peek (Agog! Fantastic Fiction)
• "The Misfit Child Grows Fat on Despair", Tom Piccirilli (The Darker Side)
• "Naked Shall I Return", Tom Piccirilli (The Book of More Flesh)
• "It's Only Human", Brian Plante (Analog 11/02)
• "Fable for Savior and Reptile", Steven Popkes (Realms of Fantasy 2/02)
• "Roofwalker", Susan Power (Roofwalker)
• "Bone Sigh", Tim Pratt (Twilight Showcase 3/02)
• "Little Gods", Tim Pratt (Strange Horizons 2/02)
• "Dating Secrets of the Dead", David Prill (F&SF 6/02)
• "Two Dreams and One Fate", Saira Ramasastry (Rosebud #24)
• "Melodies Played Upon Cold, Dark Worlds", Robert Reed (Sci Fiction 8/02)
• "She Sees My Monsters Now", Robert Reed (Asimov's 6/02)
• "Dumptown", Mark Rich (Analog 2/02)
• "The Cat, the Ladder, and the Man Mo Shrine", Tony Richards (Weird Tales Spring 2002)
• "Leda", M. Rickert (F&SF 8/02)
• "The Djinn Who Lives between Night and Day", Bruce Holland Rogers (Realms of Fantasy 4/02)
• "Half of the Empire", Bruce Holland Rogers (Realms of Fantasy 10/02)
• "Droplet", Benjamin Rosenbaum (F&SF 7/02)
• "The Cities of Myrkhyr", Benjamin Rosenbaum (Strange Horizons 7/02)
• "Hide And Seek", Nicholas Royle (Dark Terrors 6)
• "Standard Gauge", Nicholas Royle (Thirteen)
• "Rite of the Fire Demon", J.V. Sanders (Fortean Bureau 10/02)
• "My Flamboyant Grandson", George Saunders (The New Yorker 1/28/02)
• "The Assistant to Dr. Jacob", Eric Schaller (Nemonymous #2)
• "How It Ended", Darrell Schweitzer (Realms of Fantasy 8/02)
• "Secret Murders", Darrell Schweitzer (Cemetery Dancy #39)
• "Wetting the Bed", Heather Shaw (Floodwater)
• "The Beads of Ku", Nisi Shawl (Rosebud #23)
• "Sightseeing, 2179", Robert Sheckley (F&SF 6/02)
• "Shoes", Robert Sheckley (F&SF 2/02)
• "The Diamond Drill", Charles Sheffield (Analog 4/02)
• "The Veil Beyond the Veil", William Shunn (Realms of Fantasy 4/02)
• "The Room on the Roof", Vandana Singh (Polyphony 1)
• "The White Devil", Sarah Singleton (Spectrum SF #9)
• "Night Falls, Again", Michael Marshall Smith (Embrace the Mutation)
• "Arthur Nolan's Twilight", Cat Sparks (Aurealis #30)
• "Fuchsia Spins by Moonlight", Cat Sparks (Redsine #7)
• "Nobody Else to Blame", Brian Stableford (Redsine #7)
• "Oh Goat-Foot God of Arcady", Brian Stableford (The Silver Web #15)
• "Tread Softly", Brian Stableford (Interzone 3/02)
• "Slices of Life", Vaughan Stanger (3SF #2)
• "In Paradise", Bruce Sterling (F&SF 9/02)
• "The Star Watch", James Stoddard (F&SF 1/02)
• "Cecil Rhodes in Hell", Michael Swanwick (Sci Fiction Table of the Elements #45)
• "Five British Dinosaurs", Michael Swanwick (Interzone 3/02)
• "A Great Day for Brontosaurs", Michael Swanwick (Asimov's 5/02)
• "Dirty Little War", Michael Swanwick (In the Shadow of the Wall)
• "'Hello,' Said the Stick", Michael Swanwick (Analog 3/02)
• "The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport", Michael Swanwick (Asimov's 10-11/02)
• "Unspeakable", Lucy Taylor (The Darker Side)
• "The Japanese Fan", Sheryl Tempchin (Rosebud #24)
• "The Swan of Prudence Street", Scott Thomas (Leviathan 3)
• "Moira", Lois Tilton (Realms of Fantasy 12/02)
• "Spoilers", Shane Tourtellotte (Analog 7-8/02)
• "4'33", Paul Tremblay (Gothic.net 5/02)
• "The Laughing Man Meets Little Cat", Paul Tremblay (Chizine #14)
• "The Prospect Cards", Don Tumasonis (Dark Terrors 6)
• "Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush", Luis Alberto Urrea (Six Kinds of Sky)
• "Foodstuff", Steven Utley (F&SF 2/02)
• "Treading the Maze", Steven Utley (Asimov's 2/02)
• "Walking in Circles", Steven Utley (Asimov's 1/02)
• "People Stuff", Greg van Eekhout (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #10)
• "Show and Tell", Greg van Eekhout (Strange Horizons 6/02)
• "Will You Be an Astronaut?", Greg van Eekhout (F&SF 9/02)
• "Far From the Emerald Isle", James Van Pelt (Analog 9/02)
• "Its Hour Come Round", James Van Pelt (Talebones Spring 2002)
• "Origin of the Species", James Van Pelt (Weird Tales Fall 2002)
• "The Safety of the Herd", James Van Pelt (Asimov's 1/02)
• "A World Painted by Birds", Katherine Vaz (The Green Man)
• "Love Story", Ray Vukcevich (Polyphony 1)
• "Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Boy", Ray Vukcevich (Strange Horizons 5/02)
• "Some Other Time", Ray Vukcevich (Sci Fiction 7/02)
• "Surrogate", Douglas Warshow (Rosebud #24)
• "Our Novel", Don Webb (F&SF 5/02)
• "The Yellow Flower", Don Webb (Interzone 1/02)
• "Vita Brevis Ars Longis", Julian West (Interzone 11-12/02)
• "The Oracle", Kim Westwood (Redsine #9)
• "Tales of the Golden Legend", Robert Wexler (The Third Alternative Spring 2002, Fantastic Metropolis 2/03)
• "Flight Correction", Ken Wharton (Analog 3/02)
• "Blind Date With the Invisible Man", Leslie What (Polyphony 1)
• "Grease and Sex at the King of Chicken", Leslie What (The Journal of Pulse-Pounding Narratives)
• "Target Audience", Lori Ann White (Asimov's 7/02)
• "The Machine", Conrad Williams (The Third Alternative Summer 2002)
• "The Banquet of the Lords of Night", Liz Williams (Asimov's 6/02)
• "Honeydark", Liz Williams (Realms of Fantasy 10/02)
• "The Millennium Party", Walter Jon Williams (Infinite Matrix 8/02)
• "Sundowners", Chet Williamson (Figures in Rain)
• "Afterlife", Jack Williamson (F&SF 2/02)
• "Messianic Con Brio", Neil Williamson (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #11)
• "Immortal Beloved", Lisa Wilson (Horrorfind, Twilight Times 10/02)
• "The Dog of the Drops", Gene Wolfe (3SF #2)
• "Mute", Gene Wolfe (2002 World Horror Convention Program Book)
• "Shields of Mars", Gene Wolfe (Mars Probes)
• "Under Hill", Gene Wolfe (Infinite Matrix 5/02, F&SF 12/02)
• "The Waif", Gene Wolfe (F&SF 1/02)
• "The Little Nightmusic That Could", Stephen Woodworth (Weird Tales Summer 2002)
• "Spinning Kingdoms, Two", Thomas Wylde (Once Upon a Galaxy)
• "Moonlight", Tamar Yellin (Leviathan 3)
• "Home Library", Zoran Zivkovic (Leviathan 3)
• "Infernal Library", Zoran Zivkovic (Leviathan 3)
• "Night Library", Zoran Zivkovic (Leviathan 3)
• "Noble Library", Zoran Zivkovic (Leviathan 3)
• "Smallest Library", Zoran Zivkovic (Leviathan 3)
• "The Violin-Maker", Zoran Zivkovic (Interzone 2/02)
• "Virtual Library", Zoran Zivkovic (Leviathan 3)

Length TBD

• "What the Tide Brings", Claire McKenna (Fables and Reflections #2)
• "Fundamental Particles", Susan Mosser (Turbocharged Fortune Cookie #1)
• "Want's Master", A.B. Ming (Tales of the Unanticipated #23)
• "Greaves, This Is Serious", William Mingin (Tales of the Unanticipated #23)
• "The Wretched Thicket of Thorn", Don Tumasonis (All Hallows #29)
• "The Absolute Last of the Ultra-Spooky, Super-Scary Hallowe'en Horror Nights", David J. Schow (The Spook 1/02)
• "The Two Sams", Glen Hirshberg (Dark Terrors 6)
• "The Unbeheld", Ramsey Campbell (The Spook 7/02)
• "Ill Met by Daylight", Basil Copper (Cold Hand on My Shoulder)
• "20th Century Ghost", Joe Hill (High Plains Literary Review 2002 Triple Issue)
• "The Boy Behind the Gate", James Van Pelt (Dark Terrors 6)
• "Just Like Being There", Eric Choi (Orbiter)
• "Prism", Julie E. Czerneda (DAW 30th Anniversary: Science Fiction)
• "Rain, Ice, Steam", James Alan Gardner (Explorer)
• "Ineluctable", Robert J. Sawyer (Analog 11/02)
• "By Its Cover", Isaac Szpindel (Explorer)
• "The Last Ride of German Freddie", Walter Jon Williams (Worlds That Weren't)
• "The Albertine Notes", Rick Moody (McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales)