The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009 by Jay Lake and Ian McDonald and Sarah Monette and Robert Reed and Patrick Rothfuss and Carol Emshwiller and Daryl Gregory and Christopher Golden and Neil Gaiman and Elizabeth Hand and Alice Sola Kim and Paul Park and Ted Kosmathka and Eugene Mirabelli and Rachel Swirsky and Margo Lanagan and Gene Wolfe and Peter S. Beagle and Delia Sherman and Jonathan Carroll and Kelly Link and Rivka Galchen and Paul McAuley and James Alan Gardner and K.J. Parker and Catherynne M. Valente and James Patrick Kelly and Will McIntosh and Yoon Ha Lee and Meghan McCarron and James L. Cambias and Charlie Jane Anders and Holly Phillips and Peter Watts and Garth Nix and Elizabeth Bear and Alex Jeffers and Beth Bernobich and Erik Amundsen and Jeff VanderMeer and Karen Heuler and James Maxey and Richard Bowes and Liz Williams and Kil Johnson and Jeffrey Ford and Paul Cornell and Naomi Novik and Ann Leckie and Mary Robinette Kowal