Year's Best Sf 8

Contents: Introduction, essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer; In Paradise, by Bruce Sterling (5th place, 2003 Locus Poll); Slow Life, by Michael Swanwick (Winner, 2004 Hugo Award; 4th place, 2003 Locus Poll); Knapsack Poems, by Eleanor Arnason (nominated, 2002 Tiptree Award, 2004 Nebula Award); At Dorado, by Geoffrey A. Landis (2nd place, 2003 Asimov's Readers' Award); Coelacanths, by Robert Reed (nominated, 2003 Surgeon Award); Flight Correction, by Ken Wharton (29th place, 2003 Locus Poll); Shoes, by Robert Sheckley; The Diamond Drill, by Charles Sheffield; The Seasons of the Ansarac, by Ursula K. Le Guin (nominated, 2003 Sturgeon Award; 13th place, 2003 Locus Poll); A Few Kind Words for A. E. Van Vogt, poem by Richard Chwedyk; Halo, by Charles Stross (nominated, 2003 Hugo Award, 2003 Sturgeon Award); I Saw the Light, by Terry Bisson (17th place, 2003 Locus Poll); A Slow Day at the Gallery, by A. M. Dellamonica (10th place, 2003 Asimov's Readers' Award); Ailoura, by Paul Di Filippo; The Names of All the Spirits, by J. R. Dunn; Grandma, by Carol Emshwiller (nominated, 2004 Nebula); Snow in the Desert, by Neal Asher; Singleton, by Greg Egan (nominated, 2002 British SF Award; 2003 Sturgeon Award); Geropods, by Robert Onopa; Afterlife, by Jack Williamson; Shields of Mars, by Gene Wolfe (12th place, 2003 Locus Poll); Patent Infringement, by Nancy Kress (9th place, 2003 Locus Poll); Lost Sorceress of the Silent Citadel, by Michael Moorcock (17th place, 2003 Locus Poll).