I posted this over on my Night Shade message board, and thought I’d repeat it here. Karen Haber and I completed and delivered the final two year’s bests we’re doing together for iBooks a month or so ago. The books will be published in February. After that, if things go well, I’ll be editing both series solo. In the meantime, the tables of contents are:

Science Fiction: Best of 2005

1. Triceratops Summer, Michael Swanwick
2. Little Faces, Vonda N. McIntyre
3. The Second Coming of Charles Darwin, James Morrow
4. Is There Life After Rehab?, Pat Cadigan
5. Zima Blue, Alastair Reynolds
6. The Fulcrum, Gwyneth Jones
7. The Blemmye’s Dilemma, Bruce Sterling
8. They Will Raise You in a Box, Wil McCarthy
9. Finished, Robert Reed
10. The King of Where-I-Go, Howard Waldrop
11. The Calorie Man, Paolo Bacigalupi
12. The Fate of Mice, Susan Palwick
13. I Robot, Cory Doctorow
14. The Little Goddess, Ian McDonald

Fantasy: Best of 2005

1. Two Hearts, Peter S. Beagle
2. Snowball’s Chance, Charles Stross
3. A Knot of Toads, Jane Yolen
4. Boatman’s Holiday, Jeffrey Ford
5. Ikiryoh, Liz Williams
6. CommComm, George Saunders
7. The Language of Moths, Christopher Barzak
8. Anyway, M Rickert
9. The Emperor of Gondwanaland, Paul Di Filippo
10. The Pirate’s True Love, Seana Graham
11. Intelligent Design, Ellen Klages
12. Pip and the Fairies, Theodora Goss
13. Grace Notes, Megan Lindholm
14. Leviathan, Simon Brown
15. The Denial, Bruce Sterling
16. The Farmer’s Cat, Jeff VanderMeer
17. Magic for Beginners, Kelly Link

I should have a final ToC for Best Short Novels: 2006 shortly too.