David H.’s Reviews > The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection > Status Update

Beggars in Spain - Kress: Fantastic story about people being genetically modified to go without sleep.

Living Will - Jablokov: A man builds himself a "living will" as his memory goes.

A Just and Lasting Peace - Tilton: An alternate history with an occupied South decades after the Civil War.

Skinner's Room - Gibson: Apparently homeless people occupy an unused SF-Oakland Bay Bridge in the future.