Status Updates From The Year's Best Science Fic...

Halley's Passing - McDowell: A man appears to kill someone every day.

America - Card: Reread. I very vaguely recalled this one, but also, it's much worse than I remembered.

For Thus Do I Remember Carthage - Bishop: Hyperadvanced science encounters St. Augustine.

Mother Goddess of the World - Robinson: Climbing Mount Everest with a Buddhist lama.

The Million-Dollar Wound - Whitlock: A future war and the effect of 'miraculous' healing on soldiers.

The Moon of Popping Trees - Garcia y Robertson: Various indigenous Americans look for a new way out in 1890.

Diner - Barrett, Jr.: A sad tragic town in Texas. Everything sucks.

All the Hues of Hell - Wolfe: Hel and shadows and demons or something.

Candle in a Cosmic Wind - Manzione: A first-and-land contact story, quite interesting.

The Emir's Clock - Watson: A boring flat story for me.

Ever After - Palwick: Cinderella with a twist.

The Forest of Time - Flynn: A parallel-world jumper is captured by Knecht in an alternate disunited America. Very interesting.

Night of the Cooters - Waldrop: What if the Martians from War of the Worlds landed in Texas? Fantastic.,

Angel - Cadigan: A strange story of a person and their 'Angel.' Loved it even when i didn't get it.

Shades - Shepard: Reread. A veteran/journalist faces an old ghost back in Vietnam.

The Faithful Companion at Forty - Fowler: Tonto is pretty pissed at the Lone Ranger. Great voice.

Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight - Le Guin: Mythic story involving Coyote and a human girl.

The Pardoner's Tale - Silverberg: A "pardoner"/hacker spends some time in LA. Very good.

Glass Cloud - Kelly: An architect is given an opportunity by an alien, but everyone sucks.

The Evening and the Morning and the Night - Butler: A picture painted of a fictional disease and how one might live with it. Very good.

At the Cross-Time Jaunters' Ball - Jablokov: An art critic who specializes in created-worlds. Pretty cool.

Dinosaurs - Williams: Humanity has "evolved," in a way that doesn't involve consciousness.

The Temporary King - McAuley: A freespacer comes to town, causes chaos. Things change.

Perpetuity Blues - Barrett, Jr.: I think Dozois and I have very different senses of humor after all. It's fine, I guess.

Rachel in Love - Murphy: Fantastic story about a young girl in a chimp body.

Dream Baby - McAllister: Vietnam War + psychic powers, with an intriguing nurse MC.

Flowers of Edo - Sterling: A bit of an exploration of Meiji era social changes, with a bit of fantasy at the very end.

Forever Yours, Anna - Wilhelm: An obsessed graphologist falls in love with his subject, to interesting effects.