Jonathan Strahan (Editor) The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Three. San Francisco: Night Shade Books, 2009. First edition. 9781597801492 510 pages. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. Contents: Introduction by Jonathan Strahan.  "Exhalation" by Ted Chiang; "Shoggoths in Bloom" by Elizabeth Bear; "Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel" by Peter S. Beagle; "Fixing Hanover" by Jeff VanderMeer; "The Gambler" by Paolo Bacigalupi; "The Dust Assassin" by Ian McDonald; "Virgin" by Holly Black; "Pride and Prometheus" by John Kessel; "The Thought War" by Paul McAuley; "Beyond the Sea Gates of the Scholar Pirates of Sarsköe" by Garth Nix; "The Small Door" by Holly Phillips; "Turing's Apples" by Stephen Baxter; "The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates" by Stephen King; "Five Thrillers" by Robert Reed; "The Magician's House" by Meghan McCarron; "Goblin Music" by Joan Aiken; "Machine Maid" by Margo Lanagan; "The Art of Alchemy" by Ted Kosmatka; "26 Monkeys, Also The Abyss" by Kij Johnson; "Marry the Sun" by Rachel Swirsky; "Crystal Nights" by Greg Egan; "His Master's Voice" by Hannu Rajaniemi; "Special Economics" by Maureen F. McHugh; "Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment" by M. Rickert; "From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled" by Michael Swanwich; "If Angels Fight" by Richard Bowes; "The Doom of Love in Small Spaces" by Ken Scholes; "Pretty Monsters" by Kelly Link.