This is another very good collection of work by some of the top writers around. The authors here include Sean Williams, Terry Dowling and Greg Egan, for example. In fact, Sean Williams appears twice, as he co-authors a tale with Simon Brown, along with his stand alone work.
A very interesting anthology, and they throw in an overview of the situation as well, for a bit of a bonus.
Year's Best ASF&F 2 : Reasons to Be Cheerful - Greg Egan
Year's Best ASF&F 2 : Nicholas Afalling - Jodie Kewley
Year's Best ASF&F 2 : Jenny Come to Play - Terry Dowling
Year's Best ASF&F 2 : Niagara Falling - Janeen Webb and Jack Dann
Year's Best ASF&F 2 : Teratology - Chris Gregory
Year's Best ASF&F 2 : Love and Mandarins - Sean WilliamsYear's Best ASF&F 2 : Merlusine - Lucy Sussex
Year's Best ASF&F 2 : Due West - Rick Kennett
Year's Best ASF&F 2 : Schrödinger’s Catalyst - Stephen Dedman
Year's Best ASF&F 2 : The Art of Dying - Kirsten Bishop
Year's Best ASF&F 2 : The Masque of Agamemnon - Sean Williams and Simon Brown
Year's Best ASF&F 2 : Death at the Blue Elephant - Janeen Webb
Year's Best ASF&F 2 : Lucent Carbon - Russell Blackford
A boy discovers he has a serious brain tumour, and it was causing him to be amazingly happy. Removed, he becomes despondent, and undergoes a new and extensive treatment eventually, with a form of brain network, to try and get back to a more useful life many years later.
4.5 out of 5
Fairy's labor issues go smoosh.
3 out of 5
Show runner provides perfidious paedophiliac terrible teratologists access to schizo siamese for their entertainment. Diabolic deathtrap awaits.
5 out of 5
A couple must reconcile their new marriage relationship, both virtually and in reality, as well as their business situation.
3.5 out of 5
Siamese sibling batty for Barbie.
3 out of 5
People reading woman perplexed by new guy from introduction agency's lack of signals.
3.5 out of 5
Snake woman's song story.
5 out of 5
Writer discovers gruesome ghost event.
3 out of 5
Change of direction after odd conference experience unremembered.
3.5 out of 5
Stupid is the stripling who perambulates with suicidal swordswomen.
4 out of 5
Trojan analogue with spacefleets, AI and Von Neumann probes.
3 out of 5
Reaper clubber is deadly rooter.
4 out of 5
A cyberpunk tale of a future on the border between posthumanity and immortality, where the new generation is genetically modified by longevity and healthy, but strains of AIDS and other terrors inflict the old, enough for them to destructively scan and upload their personalities. A woman attends her friend and boss as he goes through this.
4.5 out of 5
4.5 out of 5
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