The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 17

by Nancy Kress, Geoff Ryman, Michael Swanwick, Paul Melko, M. Shayne Bell, Vernor Vinge, Harry Turtledove, John C. Wright, James Van Pelt, Geoffrey A. Landis, Kage Baker, Robert Reed, William Shunn, Dominic Green, Paul Di Filippo, Terry Dowling, Nicholas A. DiChario, Terry Bisson, John Varley, Judith Moffett, Howard Waldrop, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, William Barton, John Kessel, Charles Stross, Steven Popkes, Walter Jon Williams, Paolo Bacigalupi, Jack Skillingstead, Gardner Dozois