I am gradually making my way through Hartwell and Cramer's Year's Best SF 14 (EOS, 2009) and thought I would rate the stories out of four stars as I go, perhaps with some occasional commentary.
1. Carolyn Ives Gilman, "Arkfall" ***
2. Neil Gaiman, "Orange" ** 1/2
3. Kathleen Ann Goonan, "Memory Dog" *** 1/2
4. Paolo Bacigalupi, "Pump Six" ****
5. Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette, "Boojum" *** 1/2
6. Ted Chiang, "Exhalation" ****
7. M. Rickert, "Traitor" ** 1/2
8. Cory Doctorow, "The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away" **
9. Vandana Singh, "Oblivion: A Journey" **
10. Robert Reed, "The House Left Empty" ** 1/2
11. Michael Swanwick, "The Scarecrow's Boy" ** 1/2
12. Ted Kosmatka, "N-Words" ***
13. Alastair Reynolds, "Fury" ** 1/2
14. Ann Halam, "Cheats" ** 1/2
15. Jason Sanford, "The Ships Like Clouds, Risen by Their Rain" ** 1/2
16. Mary Rosenblum, "The Egg Man" ***
17. Daryl Gregory, "Glass" ***
18. Jeff VanderMeer, "Fixing Hanover" ***
19. Rudy Rucker, "Message Found in a Gravity Wave" *** 1/2
20. Karl Schroeder and Tobias S. Buckell, "Mitigation" *** 1/2
21. Sue Burke, "Spiders" ***
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