2003 Consolidated Recommended Reading List

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Novellas

• "Walk in Silence", Catherine Asaro (Analog 4/03)
• "The Empress of Mars", Kage Baker (Asimov's 7/03)
• "Welcome to Olympus, Mr. Hearst", Kage Baker (Asimov's 10-11/03)
• "The Man Who Counts", William Barton (Sci Fiction 5/28/03)
• "Off on a Starship", William Barton (Asimov's 9/03)
• Dear Abbey, Terry Bisson (PS Publishing)
• "Greetings", Terry Bisson (Sci Fiction 9/3/03)
• Struck, Geoffrey Bromhead (Anvil Press)
• "The Time That Time Forgot", Jack Cady (Ghosts of Yesterday)
• "The Tangled Strings of the Marionettes", Adam-Troy Castro (F&SF 7/03)
• "Exorcising Angels", Simon Clark & Tim Lebbon (Exorcising Angels)
• The Necromancer, Douglas Clegg (Cemetery Dance)
• "For Keeps", J. R. Dunn (Sci Fiction 3/5/03)
• "The Grass and Trees", Eliot Fintushel (Asimov's 2/03)
• "The Bone Witch", R. Garcia y Robertson (F&SF 2/03)
• "Killer of Children", R. Garcia y Robertson (F&SF 12/03)
• "A Crowd of Bone", Greer Gilman (Trampoline)
• "Seed of Destiny", Daniel Hatch (Analog 1/03)
• "Pictures from an Expedition", Alex Irvine (F&SF 9/03)
• "Counting Crows", Mercedes Lackey (Charmed Destinies)
• "Joust", Mercedes Lackey (The Dragon Quintet)
• The Teratologist, Edward Lee & Wrath James White (Medium Rare Books)
• "The Sworn Sword", George R. R. Martin (Legends II)
• "There's a Hole in October", Todd McAulty (Black Gate Spring 2003)
• "The Swastika Bomb", John Meaney (Live Without a Net)
• "The Bear's Baby", Judith Moffett (F&SF 10-11/03)
• "The Albertine Notes", Rick Moody (McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales)
• "Looking through Lace", Ruth Nestvold (Asimov's 9/03)
• "Origin of a Species, or Up Shit's Creek with a Case of Beer and No Fucking Paddles", Weston Ochse & David Whitman (Appalachian Galapagos)
• "Lucky Luke", P. J. Plauger (Analog 12/03)
• "The Ice", Steven Popkes (Asimov's 1/03)
• "Ariel", Lucius Shepard (Asimov's 10-11/03)
• "Jailwise", Lucius Shepard (Sci Fiction 6/4/03)
• "Limbo", Lucius Shepard (The Dark)
• Louisiana Breakdown, Lucius Shepard (Golden Gryphon)
• "Curator", Charles Stross (Asimov's 12/03)
• "La Sentinelle", Lucy Sussex (Southern Blood)
• "Miller's Wife", Mark W. Tiedemann (Black Gate Fall 2003)
• In & Oz, Steve Tomasula (Ministry of Whimsy)
• "The Cookie Monster", Vernor Vinge (Analog 10/03)
• In Springdale Town, Robert Freeman Wexler (PS Publishing)
• "The Green Leopard Plague", Walter Jon Williams (Asimov's 10-11/03)
• "Margaux", Walter Jon Williams (Asimov's 5/03)
• "Just Like the Ones We Used to Know", Connie Willis (Asimov's 12/03)
• Roll Them Bones, David Niall Wilson (Cemetery Dance)
• "Awake in the Night", John C. Wright (The Night Lands 1/19/03)

Novelettes

• "Samantha Blazes: Psychic Detective of LA", Maria Alexander (Hastur Pussycat, Kill! Kill!)
• "The Fluted Girl", Paolo Bacigalupi (F&SF 6/03)
• "The Census Taker", Dale Bailey (F&SF 10-11/03)
• "Nightmare Mountain", Kage Baker (Stars)
• "Hard Times", Neal Barrett, Jr. (Asimov's 4/03)
• "Old Virginia", Laird Barron (F&SF 2/03)
• "Breeding Ground", Stephen Baxter (Asimov's 2/03)
• "The Chop Line", Stephen Baxter (Asimov's 12/03)
• "Touching Centauri", Stephen Baxter (Asimov's 8/03)
• "Anomalous Structures of My Dreams", M. Shayne Bell (F&SF 1/03)
• "The Hydrogen Wall", Gregory Benford (Asimov's 10-11/03)
• "Poison", Beth Bernobich (Strange Horizons 1/20/03)
• "Alfred Bester Is Alive and Well and Living in Winterset, Iowa", Bret Bertholf (F&SF 9/03)
• "The Door Gunner", Michael Bishop (The Silver Gryphon)
• "The Sacerdotal Owl", Michael Bishop (13 Horrors)
• "Almost Home", Terry Bisson (F&SF 10-11/03)
• "The Devils in the Details", James P. Blaylock (The Devils in the Details)
• "The Trismegistus Club", James P. Blaylock (In for a Penny)
• "Capture Radius", Stephen L. Burns (Analog 2/03)
• "Amnesty", Octavia E. Butler (Sci Fiction 1/22/03)
• "The Pink Ribbon", A. S. Byatt (Little Black Book of Stories)
• "A Stone Woman", A. S. Byatt (The New Yorker 10/13/03; Little Black Book of Stories)
• "In the Dragon's House", Orson Scott Card (The Dragon Quintet)
• "Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs", Adam-Troy Castro (Imaginings)
• "The Bees", Dan Chaon (McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales)
• "Bedfordshire", Peter Crowther (Gathering the Bones)
• "It Walks in Beauty", Chan Davis (Sci Fiction 9/3/03)
• "Fashion Victims", Stephen Dedman (Borderlands #1)
• "Clouds and Cold Fires", Paul Di Filippo (Live Without a Net)
• "Seeing Is Believing", Paul Di Filippo (F&SF 4/03)
• "Liberation Spectrum", Cory Doctorow (Salon 1/16/03)
• "Flashmen", Terry Dowling (Oceans of the Mind #10)
• "One Thing About the Night", Terry Dowling (The Dark)
• "Louder Echo", Brendan Duffy (Agog! Terrific Tales)
• "Still Coming Ashore", Michael F. Flynn (Analog 7-8/03)
• "The Empire of Ice Cream", Jeffrey Ford (Sci Fiction 2/26/03)
• "Bitter Grounds", Neil Gaiman (Mojo: Conjure Stories)
• "The Monarch of the Glen", Neil Gaiman (Legends II)
• "A Study in Emerald", Neil Gaiman (Shadows over Baker Street)
• The Wolves in the Walls, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
• "From the Corner of My Eye", Alexander Glass (Asimov's 8/03)
• "Impala", John Gonzalez (Trampoline)
• "Angels and You Dogs", Kathleen Ann Goonan (Sci Fiction 7/2/03)
• "Burning Day", Glenn Grant (Island Dreams)
• "The Rule of Terror", Dominic Green (Interzone 5-6/03)
• "Send Me a Mentagram", Dominic Green (Interzone 11-12/03)
• "The Perfect Pilgrim", Jim Grimsley (Asimov's 2/03)
• "Dancing Men", Glen Hirshberg (The Dark)
• "Flowers on Their Bridles, Hooves in the Air", Glen Hirshberg (Sci Fiction 8/6/03)
• "With Acknowledgements to Sun Tzu", Brian Hodge (The Third Alternative #33)
• "Flotsam", Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Firebirds)
• "Shepherded by Galatea", Alex Irvine (Asimov's 3/03)
• "Angel", Shelly Jackson (Trampoline)
• "At the Mouth of the River of Bees", Kij Johnson (Sci Fiction 10/7/03)
• "Go", Nicholas Kaufmann (Walk in Shadows)
• "Babylon Falling", Brian Keene (The Rise and Fall of Babylon)
• "Bernardo's House", James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's 6/03)
• "It's All True", John Kessel (Sci Fiction 11/5/03)
• "Closing Time", Jack Ketchum (Peaceable Kingdom)
• "Basement Magic", Ellen Klages (F&SF 5/03)
• "Glass: A Love Story", Jay Lake (Greetings from Lake Wu)
• "Into the Gardens of Sweet Night", Jay Lake (Writers of the Future Volume XIX)
• "The Eyes of America", Geoffrey A. Landis (Sci Fiction 5/7/03)
• "Tutorial", John Langan (F&SF 8/03)
• "Amends", H. Courreges LeBlanc (Imaginings)
• "The Ghost of the Clock", Tanith Lee (The Dark)
• "Love in a Time of Dragons", Tanith Lee (The Dragon Quintet)
• "Catskin", Kelly Link (McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales)
• "The Hortlak", Kelly Link (The Dark)
• "Tiny Berries", Richard A. Lovett (Analog 9/03)
• "Who Names the Light?", Pete D. Manison (Analog 11/03)
• "Child of the Stones", Paul McAuley (Sci Fiction 11/12/03)
• "Entangled Eyes Are Smiling", John Meaney (Interzone 7/03)
• "Singletons in Love", Paul Melko (Live Without a Net)
• "In Yerusalom", Yves Menard (Island Dreams)
• "Clem Crowder's Catch", Al Michaud (F&SF 7/03)
• "Etamin at East 47th", A. R. Morlan (Challenging Destiny 6/03)
• "Dragon's Gate", Pat Murphy (F&SF 8/03)
• "The Fire and the Wind", G. David Nordley (Analog 7-8/03)
• "The Silence of the Falling Stars", Mike O'Driscoll (The Dark)
• Fuckin' Lie Down Already, Tom Piccirilli (Endeavor Press)
• "Stegosaurus Boy", Steven Popkes (Realms of Fantasy 2/03)
• "Captain Fantasy and the Secret Masters", Tim Pratt (Realms of Fantasy 4/03; Little Gods)
• "Fable from a Cage", Tim Pratt (Realms of Fantasy 2/03; Little Gods)
• "Pale Dog", Tim Pratt (Little Gods)
• "Romanticore", Tim Pratt (Realms of Fantasy 12/03)
• "Big House on the Prairie", David Prill (Sci Fiction 7/9/03)
• "The Path of the Transgressor", Tom Purdom (Asimov's 6/03)
• "The Fishie", Philip Raines & Harvey Welles (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 6/03)
• Epiphany: A Flying Tiger's Story, Stephen Mark Rainey (Delirium Books)
• "Hexagons", Robert Reed (Asimov's 7/03)
• "Like Minds", Robert Reed (F&SF 10-11/03)
• "Rejection", Robert Reed (Asimov's 1/03)
• "The Chambered Fruit", M. Rickert (F&SF 8/03)
• "Golden Bird", Mary Rosenblum (Asimov's 1/03)
• "Jenna and Me", Rudy Rucker & Rudy Rucker, Jr. (The Infinite Matrix 2/11/03)
• "Tropical Nights at the Natatorium", Richard Paul Russo (F&SF 9/03)
• "Dry Bones", William Sanders (Asimov's 5/03)
• "Jon", George Saunders (The New Yorker 1/27/03)
• "The Tawny Bitch", Nisi Shawl (Mojo: Conjure Stories)
• "Liar's House", Lucius Shepard (Sci Fiction 12/3/03)
• "Only Partly Here", Lucius Shepard (Asimov's 3/03)
• "The Same Old Story", Lucius Shepard (Polyphony 2)
• "Señor Volto", Lucius Shepard (Sci Fiction 2/12/03)
• "A Walk in the Garden", Lucius Shepard (Sci Fiction 8/20/03)
• "Cotillion", Delia Sherman (Firebirds)
• "The Lightning Bug Wars", Gary W. Shockley (F&SF 4/03)
• "The Madwoman of Shuttlefield", Allen M. Steele (Asimov's 5/03)
• "Junk DNA", Bruce Sterling & Rudy Rucker (Asimov's 1/03)
• "Nightfall", Charles Stross (Asimov's 4/03)
• "King Dragon", Michael Swanwick (The Dragon Quintet)
• "Legions in Time", Michael Swanwick (Asimov's 4/03)
• "Valley of the Sugars of Salt", Anna Tambour (Monterra's Deliciosa and Other Tales)
• Godhead Dying Downwards, Jeffrey Thomas (Earthling Publications)
• Parish Damned, Lee Thomas (Creative Guy Publishing)
• "Scabbing", Mark W. Tiedemann (F&SF 4/03)
• "The Baby in the Night Deposit Box", Megan Whalen Turner (Firebirds)
• "The Bellman", John Varley (Asimov's 6/03)
• A Better World's in Birth, Howard Waldrop (Golden Gryphon)
• "Unsportsmanlike Conduct", Scott Westerfeld (Sci Fiction 4/9/03)
• "The Monopole Affair", Ken Wharton (Analog 5/03)
• "The Man from Somewhere", Jack Williamson (Asimov's 10-11/03)
• "Count to One", Chris Willrich (Asimov's 5/03)
• "Death Did Not Become Him", David Niall Wilson & Patricia Lee Macomber (Shadows over Baker Street)
• "Of Soil and Climate", Gene Wolfe (Realms of Fantasy 12/03)

Short Stories

• "Pagliacci's Divorce", Daniel Abraham (F&SF 12/03)
• "The Hibernators", Brian W. Aldiss (Asimov's 10-11/03)
• "L'Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars)", Dean Francis Alfar (Strange Horizons 1/6/03)
• "Our Günther Likes to Dig", Lee Allred (Asimov's 7/03)
• "The Apocalypse According to Olaf", Barth Anderson (Asimov's 5/03)
• "Scrapbook for an Epidemic", Barth Anderson (Flytrap 11/03)
• "Big Ugly Mama and the ZK", Eleanor Arnason (Asimov's 9/03)
• "Hunger: A Confession", Dale Bailey (F&SF 3/03)
• "The Briscian Saint", Kage Baker (Realms of Fantasy 8/03)
• "A Night on the Barbary Coast", Kage Baker (The Silver Gryphon)
• "You Go Where It Takes You", Nathan Ballingrud (Sci Fiction 7/16/03)
• "Click", Gary Barwin (Descant #122)
• "Dead Boy Found", Chris Barzak (Trampoline)
• "Mortal Engines", Michael Bateman (Asimov's 12/03)
• "Through Soft Air", Lee Battersby (Borderlands #1)
• "The Great Game", Stephen Baxter (Asimov's 3/03)
• "Chrysalide", Beth Bernobich (Polyphony 2)
• "Dr. Susan Lee Research Notes: Leopolda's Song", John Borneman (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 2/03)
• "Danaïd Night", Gary A. Braunbeck (A Little Orange Book of Odd Stories)
• "Duty", Gary A. Braunbeck (Vivisections)
• "Reflections Of...", Gary A. Braunbeck (Chiaroscuro 4-6/03; A Little Orange Book of Odd Stories)
• "The Brief History of the Dead", Kevin Brockmeier (The New Yorker 9/8/03)
• "Everything Broken", Ed Bryant (13 Horrors)
• "Mr. Sly Stops for a Cup of Joe", Scott Emerson Bull (Gathering the Bones)
• "Paying It Forward", Michael A. Burstein (Analog 9/03)
• "La Desterrada", Jennifer Busick (Black Gate Spring 2003)
• "Ash City Stomp", Richard Butner (Trampoline)
• "The Music Box", P. D. Cacek (Cemetery Dance #45)
• "The Lady with the Blind Dog", Jack Cady (Ghosts of Yesterday)
• "Hooyoo Love", Fred Chappell (F&SF 10-11/03)
• "Gramercy Park", Haddayr Copley-Woods (Rabid Transit: A Mischief of Rats)
• "The Dog Movie", Albert E. Cowdrey (F&SF 4/03)
• "Grey Star", Albert E. Cowdrey (F&SF 1/03)
• "A Good Offense", Don D'Ammassa (Analog 5/03)
• "The Word Mill", Don D'Ammassa (Analog 6/03)
• "Salting the Map", Alan DeNiro (Fortean Bureau 12/03)
• "Dragonhead", Nick DiChario (F&SF 7/03)
• "And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon", Paul Di Filippo (Sci Fiction 11/19/03)
• "Bare Market", Paul Di Filippo (Interzone 1/03)
• "Flowers from Alice", Cory Doctorow & Charles Stross (New Voices in Science Fiction)
• "Nimby and the Dimension Hoppers", Cory Doctorow (Asimov's 6/03)
• "The Constellation Game", Rudi Dornemann (Fortean Bureau 12/03)
• "Fairy Tale", Gardner Dozois (Sci Fiction 1/15/03)
• "Daddy Mention and the Monday Skull", Andy Duncan (Mojo: Conjure Stories)
• "The Last Supper", Scott Edelman (The Book of Final Flesh)
• "Goodbye to All That", Harlan Ellison (McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales)
• "Boys: A Short Story", Carol Emshwiller (Sci Fiction 1/28/03)
• "Gods and Three Wishes", Carol Emshwiller (Trampoline)
• "Repository", Carol Emshwiller (F&SF 7/03)
• "The Pineapple Girl", S. Evans (Abyss & Apex 3-4/03)
• "Reach", Sheila Finch (F&SF 2/03)
• "Wild Thing", Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF 7/03)
• "Kukla Boogie Moon", Eliot Fintushel (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 11/03)
• "3rd Corinthians", Michael F. Flynn (Analog 6/03)
• "The Beautiful Gelreesh", Jeffrey Ford (Album Zutique #1)
• "The Trentino Kid", Jeffrey Ford (The Dark)
• "King Rat", Karen Joy Fowler (Trampoline)
• "Protect Yourself at All Times", Bruce Jay Friedman (F&SF 5/03)
• "I Killed Them in Vegas", Esther M. Friesner (F&SF 9/03)
• "N0072-JK1", Adam Corbin Fusco (Borderlands 5)
• "Closing Time", Neil Gaiman (McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales)
• "The Medusa Dishroom", Eric Gardner (Full Unit Hookup #3)
• "Melungeon Moon", d.g.k. goldberg (Chiaroscuro 10-12/03)
• "The Arts of Malediction", Lisa Goldstein (Polyphony 2)
• "The Loneliest Night of the Week", Ed Gorman (Cemetery Dance #43)
• "The Old Incense Road", Angélica Gorodischer (Kalpa Imperial)
• "The Forest of Forgetting", Theodora Goss (Realms of Fantasy 10/03)
• "Lily, with Clouds", Theodora Goss (Alchemy #1)
• "Professor Berkowitz Stands on the Threshold", Theodora Goss (Polyphony 2)
• "Sleeping with Bears", Theodora Goss (Strange Horizons 11/17/03)
• "For My Birthday, Another Candle", Charles L. Grant (13 Horrors)
• "No Solace for the Soul in Digitopia", John Grant (Live Without a Net)
• "Four Short Novels", Joe Haldeman (F&SF 10-11/03)
• "Giza", Joe Haldeman (Asimov's 3/03)
• "Long Live the Queen", Angeline Hawkes-Craig (Femmes de la Brume)
• "Section Seven", John G. Hemry (Analog 9/03)
• "Flow of Time and Water", Rachel S. Heslin (Intracities)
• "Daughter of the Monkey God", M. K. Hobson (Sci Fiction 7/23/03)
• "A Fault Against the Dead", Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Realms of Fantasy 6/03)
• "Nobody's Car", Robert Hood (Ideomancer 1/03)
• "North", Brian Hopkins (Black Gate Spring 2003)
• "Eternal Sunset", Rhys Hughes (Album Zutique #1)
• "The Small Miracle", Rhys Hughes (Nemonymous #3)
• "The Fall at Shanghai", Alex Irvine (Alchemy #1)
• "The Uterus Garden", Alex Irvine (Polyphony 2)
• "Husband", Shelley Jackson (The Paris Review #164)
• "Tiger Moth", Graham Joyce (Gathering the Bones)
• "...What a Spaceman's Gotta Do", Daniel Kaysen (Strange Horizons 2/3/03)
• "Mother", James Patrick Kelly (The Silver Gryphon)
• "The Bluest of Grey Skies", Michael Kelly (Nemonymous #3)
• "Of New Arrivals, Many Johns, and the Music of the Spheres", John Kessel (F&SF 6/03)
• "Points of Contact", John Keyes (Descant #122)
• "Harvey's Dream", Stephen King (The New Yorker 6/30/03)
• "Rest Stop", Stephen King (Esquire 12/03)
• "Appetite", Nicholas Knight (Open Space)
• "EJ-ES", Nancy Kress (Stars)
• "Start with Color", Bill Kte'pi (Strange Horizons 3/24/03)
• "Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur", Paul LaFarge (Politically Inspired)
• "Cell Call", Marc Laidlaw (By Moonlight Only)
• "The Headline Trick", Douglas Lain (Rabid Transit: A Mischief of Rats)
• "Shopping at the End of the World", Douglas Lain (Strange Horizons 9/22/03)
• "The Beauty of Our Weapons", Jay Lake (Full Unit Hookup #4)
• "Over the Walls of Eden", Jay Lake (Descant #122)
• "I Wear Mourning, Seeing a World of Deceit", Robert Lake (Descant #122)
• "The Lost and Found of Years", Claude Lalumière (Intracities)
• "The God Behind the Glass", Richard Larson (Electric Velocipede #5)
• "Woeful Tales from Mahigul", Ursula K. Le Guin (Changing Planes)
• "Moonblind", Tanith Lee (Realms of Fantasy 4/03)
• "The Tale of the Golden Eagle", David D. Levine (F&SF 6/03)
• "Pale Horse", Kevin Levites (Analog 9/03)
• "Purity", Thomas Ligotti (Weird Tales #331)
• Sideshow and Other Stories, Thomas Ligotti (Subterranean Press)
• "The Raptures of the Deep", Rosaleen Love (Gathering the Bones)
• "Ghost Dancing", Jason Erik Lundberg (Four Seasons in One Day)
• "Night Off", Jason Erik Lundberg (Four Seasons in One Day)
• "Postcards from Atlantis", Catherine MacLeod (Open Space)
• "Past Tense", Patricia Lee Macomber (Cemetery Dance #42)
• "Why I Became a Plumber", Sara Maitland (On Becoming a Fairy Godmother)
• "Bush of Ghosts", Geoffrey Maloney (Tales from the Crypto-System)
• "A Very Long War", Geoffrey Maloney (Tales from the Crypto-System)
• "joanierules.bloggermax.com", Nick Mamatas (Rabid Transit: A Mischief of Rats)
• "Scarlet Women Watch TV Till Dawn", Nick Mamatas (3000 Miles Per Hour in Every Direction at Once)
• "Blind Lion", Nye Marnach (Full Unit Hookup #4)
• The Law of Gravity Isn't Working on Rainbow Bridge, Jack McDevitt (Buffalo Fantasy League / W. Paul Ganley)
• "Ancestor Money", Maureen F. McHugh (Sci Fiction 10/1/03)
• "Frankenstein's Daughter", Maureen F. McHugh (Sci Fiction 4/2/03)
• "The Road Leads Back", Maureen McHugh (Polyphony 3)
• "Working Alone", Henry Melton (Analog 6/03)
• "Three Bean & Moon Salad", Christoph Meyer (Electric Velocipede #5)
• "From Sunset to the White Sea", William Mingin (Talebones Summer 2003)
• "The Only Known Jump Across Time", Eugene Mirabelli (F&SF 9/03)
• "Theo's Girl", David Moles (Polyphony 2)
• "Bumpship", Susan Mosser (Trampoline)
• "In the Darkening Green", Mike O'Driscoll (The Third Alternative #34)
• "The Haunting", Joyce Carol Oates (F&SF 4/03)
• "The Navatar", Jerry Oltion (F&SF 10-11/03)
• "Worshipping Small Gods", Richard Parks (Realms of Fantasy 8/03)
• "Yamabishu", Richard Parks (Realms of Fantasy 12/03)
• "Morlock Chili", Lawrence Person (Asimov's 6/03)
• "The Birdcatcher", Erika Peterson (Strange Horizons 10/6/03)
• "Voice C", Tom Piccirilli (Cemetery Dance #42)
• "Halloweentown", Brian Plante (Analog 10/03)
• "Lavender in Love", Brian Plante (Analog 2/03)
• "The Birds of Isla Mujeres", Steven Popkes (F&SF 1/03)
• "Down with the Lizards and Bees", Tim Pratt (Realms of Fantasy 8/03; Little Gods)
• "The Scent of Copper Pennies", Tim Pratt (Far Sector 1/03; Little Gods)
• "The Legend of the Midnight Cruiser", Michael Reaves (F&SF 12/03)
• "Shutdown/Retroviral", Aaron A. Reed (F&SF 3/03)
• "Incursions", Kit Reed (F&SF 5/03)
• "555", Robert Reed (F&SF 5/03)
• "Like, Need, Deserve", Robert Reed (Sci Fiction 8/27/03)
• "Night of Time", Robert Reed (The Silver Gryphon)
• "Robots Don't Cry", Mike Resnick (Asimov's 7/03)
• "Bread and Bombs", M. Rickert (F&SF 4/03)
• "The Machine", M. Rickert (F&SF 1/03)
• "Peace on Suburbia", M. Rickert (F&SF 12/03)
• "The Super Hero Saves the World", M. Rickert (F&SF 6/03)
• "O One", Chris Roberson (Live Without a Net)
• "Alephestra", Bruce Holland Rogers (Realms of Fantasy 6/03)
• "Dead White Guys", Bruce Holland Rogers (Polyphony 2)
• "The Rower", Bruce Holland Rogers (Descant #122)
• "Cechas!", Judi Rohrig (Extremes 5: Fantasy & Horror from the Ends of the Earth)
• "Looking for Goats, Finding Monkeys", Iain Rowan (Black Gate Fall 2003)
• "The Chance Walker", Lynda E. Rucker (The Third Alternative #33)
• "June Sixteenth at Anna's", Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Asimov's 4/03)
• "Nutball Season", Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Sci Fiction 12/24/03)
• "Cause for a Haunting", Patricia Rutale (On Spec Summer 2003)
• "Birth Days", Geoff Ryman (Interzone 4/03)
• "Ferret", Kiini Ibura Salaam (The Infinite Matrix 1/1/03)
• "The Hotel", Jessica Amanda Salmonson (The Deep Museum)
• "Catching", Larry Santoro (Sex Crimes)
• "The Red Bow", George Saunders (Esquire 9/03)
• "Born under the Sign of Bonanza", Robert Scherrer (Analog 11/03)
• "Blood and Burning Straw", Harry Shannon (Cemetery Dance #45)
• "Blue Chuck Does Thrilltown", Heather Shaw & Tim Pratt (The Urban Bizarre)
• "Broken Branches", Heather Shaw & Tim Pratt (Intracities)
• "Legend of Conquistadors", Robert Sheckley (F&SF 4/03)
• "Mrs. Janokowski Hits One out of the Park", William Shunn (Electric Velocipede #4)
• "Strong Medicine", William Shunn (Salon 11/10/03)
• "The Wife", Vandana Singh (Polyphony 3)
• "Dead Worlds", Jack Skillingstead (Asimov's 6/03)
• "Brain Worms Crave Soul Food", Bryan Smith (Under the Skin)
• "Being Right", Michael Marshall Smith (More Tomorrow and Other Stories)
• "Open Doors", Michael Marshall Smith (More Tomorrow and Other Stories)
• "The Defragmentation of Thomas Crane", Jeff Somers (The Urban Bizarre)
• "Get Me to the Job on Time", Ian Randal Strock (Analog 5/03)
• "Rogue Farm", Charles Stross (Live Without a Net)
• "Drowned Men Can't Have Kids", Karina Summer-Smith (Strange Horizons 8/11/03)
• "Deep in the Woods of Grammarie", Michael Swanwick (Realms of Fantasy 10/03)
• "Einsteinium: The Dark Lady of the Equations" [Periodic Table of the Elements], Michael Swanwick (Sci Fiction 6/20/03)
• "Smoke and Mirrors: Four Scenes from the Postutopian Future", Michael Swanwick (Live Without a Net)
• "The Bereavement Photographer", Steve Rasnic Tem (13 Horrors)
• "Out Late in the Park", Steve Rasnic Tem (Gathering the Bones)
• "The Collector", Alinta Thornton (Borderlands #2)
• "Persistent Patterns", Shane Tourtellotte (Analog 3/03)
• "Suitable for the Orient", Karen Traviss (Asimov's 2/03)
• "Perfect", Paul G. Tremblay (Vivisections)
• "Joe Steele", Harry Turtledove (Stars)
• "The Mezzotint", Lisa Tuttle (Gathering the Bones)
• "The Former King of France", John Urbancik (Sound & Vision)
• "Exile", Steven Utley (Asimov's 8/03)
• "In the Late December", Greg van Eekhout (Strange Horizons 12/22/04)
• "The Long Way Home", James Van Pelt (Asimov's 9/03)
• "In Fading Suns and Dying Moons", John Varley (Stars)
• "Mabiba Overboard", Bill Vaughan (F&SF 6/03)
• "A Hunter's Ode to His Bait", Carrie Vaughn (Realms of Fantasy 2/03)
• "My Swan Sister", Katherine Vaz (Swan Sister)
• "Master Plan; Or, The Art of Tragedy in Relation to Human Morphology", Marc Venema (Descant #122)
• "First Principles", Edd Vick (Asimov's 9/03)
• "Jumping", Ray Vukcevich (Witpunk)
• "Calling Your Name", Howard Waldrop (Stars)
• "D = R x T", Howard Waldrop (Sci Fiction 10/22/03)
• "Kijin Tea", Kyla Ward (Agog! Terrific Tales)
• "Ten Bears; or, a Journey to the Weterings", Henry Wessells (The New York Review of Science Fiction 10/03)
• "That Which Does Not Kill Us", Scott Westerfeld (Agog! Terrific Tales; Say...aren't you dead?)
• "Aloha", Ken Wharton (Analog 6/03)
• "Death Penalty", Leslie What (Sci Fiction 2/19/03)
• "Black Shoes", Gene Wolfe (13 Horrors)
• "Castaway", Gene Wolfe (Sci Fiction 2/5/03)
• "Graylord Man's Last Words", Gene Wolfe (Asimov's 5/03)
• "Warning Signs", Simon Wood (Vivisections)
• "Genie", Tamar Yellin (Nemonymous #3)
• "Waiting for Jenny Rex", Melissa Yuan-Innes (Full Unit Hookup #3)
• "Takes You Back", George Zebrowski (The Silver Gryphon)
• "Line on the Palm", Zoran Zivkovic (Interzone 1/03)

Story Length TBD

• "The Waters of Meribah", Tony Ballantyne (Interzone 5-6/03)
• "The Drowned Mermaid", Christopher Barzak (Realms of Fantasy 6/03)
• "The Catgirl Manifesto: An Introduction", Richard Calder (Album Zutique #1)
• "The Automatic Circus", David Ira Cleary (The Third Alternative #35)
• "Breakfast at the Fir Tree Diner", Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Interzone 4/03)
• "Confusions of Uñi", Ursula K. Le Guin (Changing Planes)
• "The Mannequin Man and the Plastic Bitch", Tim Lebbon (White and Other Tales of Ruin)
• "The Cannon", Kelly Link (Say...what time is it?)
• "Bay", David Erik Nelson (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 6/03)
• "That Good Night", Tim Powers (The Devils in the Details)
• "The Last Horror Show", David Prill (Dating Secrets of the Dead)
• "The Acquaintance", Patricia Russo (Talebones Summer 2003)
• "The Goddess of Cruelty", Thomas Tessier (Cemetery Dance #46)
• "The Man Who Did Nothing", Karen Traviss (Realms of Fantasy 6/03)
• "Babies", Leslie What (The Third Alternative #34)
• "Alarm Clock on the Night Table", Zoran Zivkovic (Interzone 2/03)
• "Disorder in the Head", Zoran Zivkovic (Interzone 4/03)

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