The Year's Best Science Fiction Fourth Annual Collection

Griffin's egg / Michael Swanwick -- Even the queen / Connie Willis -- The round-eyed barbarians / L. Sprague de Camp -- Dust / Greg Egan -- Two guys from the future / Terry Bisson -- The mountain to Mohammed / Nancy Kress -- The coming of the vertumnus / Ian Watson -- A long night's vigil at the temple / Robert Silverberg -- The hammer of God / Arthur C. Clarke -- Grownups / Ian R. MacLeod -- Graves / Joe Haldeman -- The glowing cloud / Steven Utley -- Gravity's angel / Tom Maddox -- Protection / Maureen F. McHugh -- The last cardinal bird in Tennessee / Neal Barrett, Jr. -- Birth day / Robert Reed -- Naming names / Pat Cadigan -- The Elvis National Theater of Okinawa / Jonathan Lethem and Lukas Jaeger -- The territory / Bradley Denton -- The best and the rest of James Joyce / Ian McDonald -- Naming the flowers / Kate Wilhelm -- Snodgrass / Ian R. MacLeod -- By the mirror of my youth / Kathe Koja -- Outnumbering the dead / Frederik Pohl.