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• xiii • Introduction (Year's Best SF 5) • (2000) • essay by David G. Hartwell
• 1 • Everywhere • (1999) • shortstory by Geoff Ryman
• 14 • Evolution Never Sleeps • (1999) • shortstory by Elisabeth Malartre
• 36 • Sexual Dimorphism • (1999) • shortstory by Kim Stanley Robinson
• 57 • Game of the Century • (1999) • novelette by Robert Reed
• 94 • Secrets of the Alien Reliquary • (1998) • poem by Michael Bishop
• 97 • Kinds of Strangers • (1999) • novelette by Sarah Zettel
• 124 • Visit the Sins • (1999) • shortstory by Cory Doctorow
• 145 • Border Guards • (1999) • novelette by Greg Egan
• 174 • Macs • (1999) • shortstory by Terry Bisson (variant of macs)
• 186 • Written in Blood • (1999) • shortstory by Chris Lawson
• 204 • Has Anybody Seen Junie Moon? • (1999) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• 222 • The Blue Planet • (1999) • shortstory by Robert J. Sawyer
• 229 • Lifework • (1999) • shortstory by Mary Soon Lee
• 238 • Rosetta Stone • (2000) • shortstory by Fred Lerner
• 255 • An Apollo Asteroid • (1999) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• 271 • 100 Candles • (1999) • shortstory by Curt Wohleber
• 288 • Democritus' Violin • (1999) • shortstory by G. David Nordley
• 311 • Fossil Games • (1999) • novelette by Tom Purdom
• 362 • Valour • (1999) • shortstory by Chris Beckett
• 379 • Huddle • [Manifold] • (1999) • novelette by Stephen Baxter
• 404 • Ashes and Tombstones • (1999) • shortstory by Brian Stableford [as byBrian M. Stableford]
• 422 • Ancient Engines • (1999) • shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• 433 • Freckled Figure • (1992) • shortstory by Hiroe Suga
• 457 • Shiva • (1999) • shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
• 466 • The Queen of Erewhon • (1999) • novelette by Lucy Sussex