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The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009

by Elizabeth Bear, Jay Lake, Ian McDonald, Sarah Monette, Garth Nix, Naomi Novik, Robert Reed, Patrick Rothfuss, Daryl Gregory, Christopher Golden, Alice Sola Kim, Ted Kosmathka, Eugene Mirabelli, Margo Lanagan, Peter S. Beagle, Delia Sherman, Rivka Galchen, Jeffrey Ford, James Alan Gardner, Ann Leckie, Will McIntosh, Meghan McCarron, James L. Cambias, Charles Anders, Holly Phillips, Peter Watts, Alex Jeffers, Beth Bernobich, Erik Amundsen, Jeff VanderMeer, Karen Heuler, Paul Cornell, James Maxey, Mary Robinette Kowal, Richard Bowes, Liz Williams, Kil Johnson · 2009

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'The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2009' features over a quarter million words of fiction by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Peter S. Beagle, Elizabeth Bear, Jay Lake, Ian McDonald, Sarah Monette, Garth Nix, and Patrick Rothfuss.

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