[tdeanatoz@yahoo]

Here are the Tables of Contents for the inaugural Year's Best anthologies from noted editor Rich Horton. At the moment, they appear to only be available as e-books:

Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition, ed. Rich Horton, Wildside/Prime Books July 2006 (ra, pb) {15 stories}
----Triceratops Summer, Michael Swanwick, (ss) amazon.com Aug. 2005
----Bank Run, Tom Purdom, (na) Asimov’s Oct.-Nov. 2005
----A Coffee Cup/Alien Invasion Story, Douglas Lain (http://www.strangehorizons.com/2005/20050207/coffee-cup-f.shtml), (ss) Strange Horizons Feb. 07 2005
----The Edge of Nowhere, James Patrick Kelly, (nv) Asimov's June 2005
----Heartwired, Joe Haldeman, (vi) Nature March 24 2005
----The Fate of Mice, Susan Palwick, (ss) Asimov's Jan. 2005
----The King of Where-I-Go, Howard Waldrop (http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/originals/originals_archive/waldrop8/), (nv) SciFiction Dec. 07 2005
----The Policeman's Daughter [*Queendom of Sol], Wil McCarthy, (nv) Analog June 2005
----Bliss, Leah Bobet, (ss) On Spec Winter (April) 2005
----Finished, Robert Reed, (ss) Asimov's Sep. 2005
----The Inn at Mount Either, James Van Pelt, (ss) Analog May 2005
----Search Engine, Mary Rosenblum, (ss) Analog Sep. 2005
----You, by Anonymous, Stephen Leigh, (vi) I, Alien, ed. Mike Resnick, DAW 2005
----The Jenna Set, Daniel Kaysen (http://www.strangehorizons.com/2005/20050314/kaysen-f.shtml), (ss) Strange Horizons March 14 2005
----Understanding Space and Time, Alastair Reynolds, (na) Novacon program book 2005

Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition, ed. Rich Horton, Wildside/Prime Books July 2006 (ra, pb) {19 stories}
----Pip and the Fairies, Theodora Goss (http://www.strangehorizons.com/2005/20051003/goss-f.shtml), (ss) Strange Horizons Oct. 03 2005
----Comber, Gene Wolfe, (ss) Postscripts #3 Spring 2005
----Three Urban Folk Tales, Eric Schaller, (ss) Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #16 July 2005
----Wax, Elizabeth Bear, (nv) Interzone Nov.-Dec. 2005
----The Emperor of Gondwanaland, Paul Di Filippo, (nv) Interzone Jan.-Feb. 2005
----CommComm, George Saunders (http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/articles/050801fi_fiction), (nv) The New Yorker Aug 2005
----Five Ways Jane Austen Never Died, Samantha Henderson (http://www.forteanbureau.com/mar2005/Henderson/index.html), (ss) Fortean Bureau #30 March 2005
----Fancy Bread, Gregory Feeley, (ss) TEL: Stories, ed. Jay Lake, Wheatland Press 2005
----Sunbird, Neil Gaiman, (ss) Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things, ed. Editors of McSweeney's, Lemony Snicket 2005
----The Secret of Broken Tickers, Joe Murphy, (ss) Realms of Fantasy Aug. 2005
----On the Blindside, Sonya Taaffe, (ss) Flytrap May 2005
----Jane, Marc Laidlaw (http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/originals/originals_archive/laidlaw2/), (ss) SciFiction Feb. 16 2005
----Is There Life After Rehab?, Pat Cadigan (http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/originals/originals_archive/cadigan3/), (ss) SciFiction Aug. 17 2005
----Two Hearts, Peter S. Beagle (http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/fiction/pe01.htm), (nv) F&SF March 2005
----Super-Villains, Michael Canfield, (nv) Son and Foe #1 2005
----Empty Places, Richard Parks, (nv) Realms of Fantasy Dec. 2005
----Invisible, Steve Rasnic Tem (http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/originals/originals_archive/tem/), (ss) SciFiction March 02 2005
----By the Light of Tomorrow's Sun, Holly Phillips, (ss) In the Palace of Repose, Prime Books 2005
----The Gist Hunter [*Henghis Hapthorn], Matthew Hughes, (nv) F&SF June 2005

Horton seems to have revised the TOC for the Fantasy volume since an early posting of his; either way, it's nice to finally own Reynolds' "Understanding Space and Time," which til now has only been available in a convention program book.

[Rob B]

It seems there are more and more "Best of the Year" anthologies as of late, yet there is a thought that short fiction in the FSF genre is dying. Odd, that. No?