Year's Best SF 8 - covering stories from 2002. Edited by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer (who only gets credit on the title-page and credits-page.) Stories from Magazine of F&SF (6), Analog (3), Asimov's (5), Infinite Matrix (online), Tales of the Unanticipated, SciFiction (2; online), Once Upon a Galaxy, Spectrum SF, Interzone, Mars Probes (2)

(Introduction by the editors)
"In Paradise” by Bruce Sterling
"Slow Life” by Michael Swanwick (Hugo winner - best novelette)
"Knapsack Poems” by Eleanor Arnason (Nebula nominee)
"At Dorado" by Geoffrey A. Landis
"Coelacanths” by Robert Reed
"Flight Correction” by Ken Wharton
"Shoes” by Robert Sheckley
"The Diamond Drill” by Charles Sheffield
"The Seasons of the Ansarac” by Ursula K. Le Guin
"A Few Kind Words for A. E. Van Vogt” by Richard Chwedyk
"Halo” by Charles Stross (Hugo nominee)
"I Saw the Light" by Terry Bisson
"A Slow Day at the Gallery" by A. M. Dellamonica
"Ailoura" by Paul Di Filippo
"The Names of All the Spirits" by J. R. Dunn
"Grandma" by Carol Emshwiller (Nebula nominee)
"Snow in the Desert" by Neal Asher
"Singleton" by Greg Egan
"Geropods” by Robert Onopa
"Afterlife” by Jack Williamson
"Shields of Mars” by Gene Wolfe
"Patent Infringement" by Nancy Kress
"Lost Sorceress of the Silent Citadel" by Michael Moorcock