Andyhat's Picks for 2002's Best Stories

Novelettes

My Top 5

1. "Coventry Boy", Graham Joyce (The Third Alternative Autumn 2002)
2. "Snow in the Desert", Neal Asher (Spectrum SF #8)
3. "News from Hilaria", Dominic Green (Interzone 5/02)
4. "The Old Cosmonaut and the Construction Worker Dream of Mars", Ian McDonald (Mars Probes)
5. "The Majesty of Angels", Robert Reed (F&SF 9/02)

• "Look Away", Stephen L. Burns (Analog 5/02)
• "Teeth", Matt Cardin (Children of Cthulhu)
• "Ailoura", Paul Di Filippo (Once Upon a Galaxy)
• "Men in the Rain", Esther M. Friesner (Asimov's 1/02)
• "Jimmy Guang's House of Gladmech", Alex Irvine (Sci Fiction 4/02)
• "Catskin", Kelly Link (McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales)
• "Voice of Steel", Sean McMullen (Sci Fiction 8/02)
• "The Whisper of Discs", John Meaney (Interzone 10/02)
• "A Drug on the Market", Kim Newman (Dark Terrors 6)
• "War, Ice, Egg, Universe", G. David Nordley (Asimov's 10-11/02)
• "Lying to Dogs", Robert Reed (Asimov's 12/02)
• V.A.O., Geoff Ryman (PS Publishing)
• "Slow Life", Michael Swanwick (Analog 12/02)
• "A Flock of Birds", James Van Pelt (Sci Fiction 8/02)
• "Perceptual Set", James Van Pelt (Analog 1/02)
• A Walking Tour of the Shambles, Gene Wolfe & Neil Gaiman (American Fantasy)

Short Stories

My Top 5

1. "If Lions Could Speak: Imagining the Alien", Paul Park (Interzone 3/02)
2. "A Book, By Its Cover", P.D. Cacek (Shelf Life)
3. "Never Send to Know for Whom the Lettuce Wilts", Harlan Ellison (F&SF 1/02)
4. "Lucid", Alexander Glass (Interzone 1/02)
5. "Anthropology", Victoria Elisabeth Garcia (Polyphony 1)

• "Knapsack Poems", Eleanor Arnason (Asimov's 5/02)
• "A Slow Day at the Gallery", A.M. Dellamonica (Asimov's 10-11/02)
• "The Hanging Curve", Gardner Dozois (F&SF 4/02)
• "Shamengwa", Louise Erdrich (The New Yorker 12/2/02)
• "The Second Rat", David Barr Kirtley (On Spec Spring 2002)
• "Mr. Muerte and the Eyeball Kid", Sean Klein (Strange Horizons 8/02)
• "Identity Is a Construct", Douglas Lain (Strange Horizons 1/02)
• "In the Murrins", Ian McDowell (Weird Tales Fall 2002)
• "The War of the Worldviews", James Morrow (Mars Probes)
• "Thailand", Haruki Murakami (After the Quake)
• "Geropods", Robert Onopa (F&SF 7/02)
• "Little Gods", Tim Pratt (Strange Horizons 2/02)
• "She Sees My Monsters Now", Robert Reed (Asimov's 6/02)
• "The Veil Beyond the Veil", William Shunn (Realms of Fantasy 4/02)
• "Arthur Nolan's Twilight", Cat Sparks (Aurealis #30)
• "In Paradise", Bruce Sterling (F&SF 9/02)
• "The Star Watch", James Stoddard (F&SF 1/02)
• "Tales of the Golden Legend", Robert Wexler (The Third Alternative Spring 2002, Fantastic Metropolis 2/03)
• "The Machine", Conrad Williams (The Third Alternative Summer 2002)
• "Night Library", Zoran Zivkovic (Leviathan 3)