If science fiction, like wines came in vintages, 2007 was not a very good year. Started 11, finished 2 and did not like any of them. Unlike some wines, they are not likely to get better with age. ( )

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As always, a generally good selection, with a lot of the stories revolving around virtual identities and gaming. I had read two of the 25 before, as they were Hugo nominees; of the rest, the ones that will stay with me are the first, "Baby Doll" by Johanna Sinisalo, a terrifying tale of future sexuality; in the middle, "End Game" by Nancy Kress, which retreads some of the ground from her "Beggars in Spain" but takes it in a new direction; and the final story, James Van Pelt's "How Music Begins", a tale of alien abduction, romance and a high school band. All good stuff; I still have the Dozois collection to look forward to.
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Johanna Sinisalo: "Baby Doll" (Original English translation in The SFWA European Hall of Fame, 2007)
Tony Ballantyne: "Aristotle OS" (Originally in Fast Forward 1, 2007)
John Kessel: "The Last American" (Originally in Foundation 100, 2007)
Gene Wolfe: "Memorare" (Originally in F&SF, 2007)
Kage Baker: "Plotters and Shooters" (Originally in Fast Forward 1, 2007)
Peter Watts: "Repeating the Past" (Originally in Nature, 2007)
Stephen Baxter: "No More Stories" (Originally in Fast Forward 1, 2007)
Robyn Hitchcock: "They Came From the Future" (Originally in Fast Forward 1, 2007)
Gwyneth Jones: "The Tomb Wife" (Originally in F&SF, 2007)
Marc Laidlaw: "An Evening's Honest Peril" (Originally in Flurb #3, 2007)
Nancy Kress: "End Game" (Originally in Asimov's, 2007)
Greg Egan: "Induction" (Originally in Foundation 100, 2007)
Bernhard Ribbeck: "A Blue and Cloudless Sky" (Original English translation in The SFWA European Hall of Fame, 2007)
Gregory Benford: "Reasons Not to Publish" (Originally in Nature, 2007)
William Shunn: "Objective Impermeability in a Closed System" (Originally in An Alternate History of the 21st Century, 2007)
Karen Joy Fowler: "Always" (Originally in Asimov's, 2007)
Ken MacLeod: "Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?" (Originally in The New Space Opera, 2007)
Tim Pratt: "Artifice and Intelligence" (Originally in Strange Horizons, 2007)
Terry Bisson: "Pirates of the Somali Coast" (Originally in Subterranean 7, 2007)
Ian McDonald: "Sanjeev and Robotwallah" (Originally in Fast Forward 1, 2007)
Tony Ballantyne: "Third Person" (Originally in The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, 2007)
Kathleen Ann Goonan: "The Bridge" (Originally in Asimov's, 2007)
John G. Hemry: "As You Know, Bob" (Originally in Analog, 2007)
Bruce Sterling: "The Lustration" (Originally in Eclipse 1, 2007)
James Van Pelt: "How Music Begins" (Originally in Asimov's, 2007)

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