Year's Best SF 9

The book itself, as well as each of the stories, has a short introduction by the editors.

• Octavia E. Butler: "Amnesty" (Originally in Sci Fiction, 2003)
• Geoff Ryman: "Birth Days" (Originally in Interzone, 2003)
• Tony Ballantyne: "The Waters of Meribah" (Originally in Interzone, 2003)
• Nancy Kress: "Ej-Es" (Originally in Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian, 2003)
• Joe Haldeman: "Four Short Novels" (Originally in F&SF, 2003)
• Charles Stross: "Rogue Farm" (Originally in Live Without a Net, 2003)
• Angélica Gorodischer: "The Violet's Embryos" (Originally in Cosmos Latinos, 2003)
• Michael Swanwick: "Coyote at the End of History" (Originally in Asimov's, 2003)
• John Varley: "In Fading Suns and Dying Moons" (Originally in Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian, 2003)
• Gene Wolfe: "Castaway" (Originally in Sci Fiction, 2003)
• Gregory Benford: "The Hydrogen Wall" (Originally in Asimov's, 2003)
• Ricard de la Casa and Pedro Jorge Romero: "The Day We Went Through the Transition" (Originally in Cosmos Latinos, 2003)
• Cory Doctorow: "Nimby and the Dimension Hoppers" (Originally in Asimov's, 2003)
• Robert Reed: "Night of Time" (Originally in The Silver Gryphon, 2003)
• Kage Baker: "A Night on the Barbary Coast" (Originally in The Silver Gryphon, 2003)
• Nigel Brown: "Annuity Clinic" (Originally in Interzone, 2003)
• Allen M. Steele: "The Madwoman of Shuttlefield" (Originally in Asimov's, 2003)
• M. Rickert: "Bread and Bombs" (Originally in F&SF, 2003)
• Stephen Baxter: "The Great Game" (Originally in Asimov's, 2003)
• Rick Moody: "The Albertine Notes" (Originally in McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, 2003)

• Year's Best SF 9 title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database