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• xiii • Introduction (Year's Best Fantasy 3) • essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
• 1 • Her Father's Eyes • (2002) • shortstory by Kage Baker
• 13 • Wants Master • (2002) • shortstory by Patricia S. Bowne [as byA. B. Ming]
• 36 • October in the Chair • (2002) • shortstory by Neil Gaiman
• 51 • Greaves, This is Serious • (2002) • shortstory by William Mingin
• 58 • Shift • (2002) • shortstory by Nalo Hopkinson
• 75 • A Book, by its Cover • (2002) • shortstory by P. D. Cacek
• 94 • Somewhere in My Mind There Is a Painting Box • [Newford] • (2002) • novelette by Charles de Lint
• 121 • The Pyramid of Amirah • (2002) • shortstory by James Patrick Kelly
• 129 • Our Friend Electricity • (2002) • novelette by Ron Wolfe
• 165 • Social Dreaming of the Frin • (2002) • shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 175 • Five British Dinosaurs • (2002) • shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• 183 • The Green Word • (2002) • novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• 208 • The Comedian • (1997) • shortstory by Stepan Chapman
• 217 • The Pagodas of Ciboure • (2002) • novelette by M. Shayne Bell
• 239 • From the Cradle • (2002) • novelette by Gene Wolfe
• 263 • Sam • (2002) • shortstory by Donald Barr
• 276 • Persian Eyes • (2002) • novelette by Tanith Lee
• 302 • Travel Agency • (2002) • shortstory by Ellen Klages
• 306 • A Fable of Savior and Reptile • (2002) • shortstory by Steven Popkes (variant of Fable for Savior and Reptile)
• 327 • Comrade Grandmother • (2002) • shortstory by Naomi Kritzer
• 339 • Familiar • (2002) • shortstory by China Miéville
• 365 • Honeydark • (2002) • shortstory by Liz Williams
• 367 • A Prayer for Captain La Hire • (2002) • shortstory by Patrice Sarath [as byPatrice E. Sarath]
• 387 • Origin of the Species • (2002) • shortstory by James Van Pelt
• 403 • Tread Softly • (2002) • shortstory by Brian Stableford
• 423 • How It Ended • (2002) • shortstory by Darrell Schweitzer
• 434 • Cecil Rhodes in Hell • [The Periodic Table of Science Fiction • 45] • (2002) • shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• 436 • Hide and Seek • (2002) • shortstory by Nicholas Royle
• 445 • Death in Love • [Markovy] • (2002) • novelette by R. Garcia y Robertson