The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Three

Exhalation / Ted Chiang --
Shoggoths in bloom / Elizabeth Bear --
Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the angel / Peter S. Beagle --
Fixing Hanover / Jeff VanderMeer --
The gambler / Paolo Bacigalupi --
The dust assassin / Ian McDonald --
Virgin / Holly Black --
Pride and Prometheus / John Kessel --
The thought war / Paul McAuley --
Beyond the sea gates of the Scholar Pirates of Sarsköe / Garth Nix --
The small door / Holly Phillips --
Turing's apples / Stephen Baxter --
The New York Times at special bargain rates / Stephen King --
Five thrillers / Robert Reed --
The magician's house / Meghan McCarron --
Goblin music / Joan Aiken --
Machine maid / Margo Lanagan --
The art of alchemy / Ted Kosmatka --
26 Monkeys, also The abyss / Kij Johnson --
Marry the sun / Rachel Swirsky --
Crystal nights / Greg Egan --
His master's voice / Hannu Rajaniemi --
Special economics / Maureen F. McHugh --
Evidence of love in a case of abandonment / M. Rickert --
From Babel's fall'n glory we fled / Michael Swanwich --
If angels fight / Richard Bowes --
The doom of love in small spaces / Ken Scholes --
Pretty monsters / Kelly Link.