Presents eleven short science fiction stories by various authors, selected by editor Robert Silverberg from magazines, anthologies, and journals as the best of 2002.

Tourist / Charles Stross -- The long chase / Geoffrey A. Landis -- Coelacanths / Robert Reed -- Liking what you see: a documentary / Ted Chiang -- The black abacus / Yoon Ha Lee -- The discharge / Christopher Priest -- Aboard the beatitude / Brian W. Aldiss -- Droplet / Benjamin Rosenbaum -- The war of the worldviews / James Morrow -- Breathmoss / Ian R. MacLeod -- Angles / Orson Scott Card.