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• ix • Introduction (Year's Best SF 6) • essay by David G. Hartwell
• 1 • Reef • [The Quiet War] • (2000) • novelette by Paul J. McAuley
• 35 • Reality Check • (2000) • shortstory by David Brin
• 39 • The Millennium Express • (2000) • shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• 61 • Patient Zero • (2000) • shortstory by Tananarive Due
• 81 • The Oort Crowd • (2000) • shortstory by Ken MacLeod
• 85 • The Thing About Benny • (2000) • shortstory by M. Shayne Bell
• 95 • The Last Supper • (2000) • shortstory by Brian Stableford
• 113 • Tuberculosis Bacteria Join UN • (2000) • shortstory by Joan Slonczewski
• 117 • Our Mortal Span • (2000) • shortstory by Howard Waldrop
• 130 • Different Kinds of Darkness • [Blit] • (2000) • shortstory by David Langford
• 143 • New Ice Age, or Just Cold Feet? • (2000) • shortstory by Norman Spinrad
• 147 • The Devotee • (2000) • novelette by Stephen Dedman
• 189 • The Marriage of Sky & Sea • (2000) • shortstory by Chris Beckett
• 210 • In the Days of the Comet • (2000) • shortstory by John M. Ford
• 214 • The Birthday of the World • (2000) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 248 • Oracle • (2000) • novella by Greg Egan
• 303 • To Cuddle Amy • (2000) • shortstory by Nancy Kress
• 308 • Steppenpferd • (2000) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• 322 • Sheena 5 • [Manifold] • (2000) • shortstory by Stephen Baxter
• 343 • The Fire Eggs • (2000) • shortstory by Darrell Schweitzer
• 358 • The New Horla • (2000) • shortstory by Robert Sheckley
• 372 • Madame Bovary, C'est Moi • (2000) • shortstory by Dan Simmons
• 377 • Grandma's Jumpman • (2000) • shortstory by Robert Reed
• 398 • Bordeaux Mixture • (2000) • shortstory by Henry Gee [as byCharles Dexter Ward]
• 402 • The Dryad's Wedding • (2000) • novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
• 427 • Built Upon the Sands of Time • (2000) • shortstory by Michael F. Flynn
• 445 • Seventy-Two Letters • (2000) • novella by Ted Chiang