Gardner Dozois, Editor
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Summation: 2002
Breathmoss - IAN R. MACLEOD
The Most Famous Little Girl in the World - NANCY KRESS
The Passenger - PAUL J. MCAULEY
The Political Officer - CHARLES COLEMAN FINLAY
Lambing Season - MOLLY GLOSS
Coelacanths - ROBERT REED
Presence - MAUREEN F. MCHUGH
Halo - CHARLES STROSS
In Paradise - BRUCE STERLING
The Old Cosmonaut and the Construction Worker Dream of Mars - IAN MCDONALD
Stories for Men - JOHN KESSEL
To Become a Warrior - CHRIS BECKETT
The Clear Blue Seas of Luna - GREGORY BENFORD
V. A. O. - GEOFF RYMAN
Winters Are Hard - STEVEN POPKES
At the Money - RICHARD WADHOLM
Agent Provocateur - ALEXANDER IRVINE
Singleton - GREG EGAN
Slow Life - MICHAEL SWANWICK
A Flock of Birds - JAMES VAN PELT
The Potter of Bones - ELEANOR ARNASON
The Whisper of Disks - JOHN MEANY
The Hotel at Harlan’s Landing - KAGE BAKER
The Millennium Party - WALTER WILLIAMS
Turquoise Days - ALASTAIR REYNOLDS
Gardner Dozois, Editor
The Years Best Science Fiction, Vol. 20
Breathmoss - IAN R. MACLEOD
The Most Famous Little Girl in the World - NANCY KRESS
The Passenger - PAUL J. MCAULEY
The Political Officer - CHARLES COLEMAN FINLAY
Lambing Season - MOLLY GLOSS
Coelacanths - ROBERT REED
Presence - MAUREEN F. MCHUGH
Halo - CHARLES STROSS
In Paradise - BRUCE STERLING
The Old Cosmonaut and the Construction Worker Dream of Mars - IAN MCDONALD
Stories for Men - JOHN KESSEL
To Become a Warrior - CHRIS BECKETT
The Clear Blue Seas of Luna - GREGORY BENFORD
V. A. O. - GEOFF RYMAN
Winters Are Hard - STEVEN POPKES
At the Money - RICHARD WADHOLM
Agent Provocateur - ALEXANDER IRVINE
Singleton - GREG EGAN
Slow Life - MICHAEL SWANWICK
A Flock of Birds - JAMES VAN PELT
The Potter of Bones - ELEANOR ARNASON
The Whisper of Disks - JOHN MEANY
The Hotel at Harlan’s Landing - KAGE BAKER
The Millennium Party - WALTER WILLIAMS
Turquoise Days - ALASTAIR REYNOLDS
THE YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION TWENTIETH ANNUAL COLLECTION.
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FIRST EDITION: JULY 2003
Acknowledgments
The editor would like to thank the following people for their help and support: Susan Casper, Ellen Datlow, Gordon Van Gelder, Peter Crowther, David Pringle, Eileen Gunn, Nisi Shawl, Mark Watson, Sheila Williams, Brian Bieniowski, Trevor Quachri, Paul Frazier, Mark R. Kelly, Mark Watson, Gary Turner, Marty Halpern, Jayme Lynn Blaschke, Byron R. Tetrick, Richard Freeborn, Robert Silverberg, Cory Doctorow, Michael Swanwick, Charles Stross, Craig Engler, Linn Prentis, Vaughne Lee Hansen, Jed Hartman, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Susan Marie Groppi, Patrick Swenson, Tom Vander Neut, Andy Cox, Steve Pendergrast, Laura Ann Gilman, Alastair Reynolds, Warren Lapine, Shawna McCarthy, David Hartwell, Darrell Schweitzer, Robert Sawyer, Jennifer A. Hall, and special thanks to my own editor, Marc Resnick.