The book includes 33 stories, all first published in 2010. The book also includes a summation by Dozois, a brief introduction to each story by Dozois and a referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows:^[1]

• Robert Reed: "A History of Terraforming"
• Lavie Tidhar: "The Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String"
• Allen M. Steele: "The Emperor of Mars"
• Peter Watts: "The Things"
• Geoffrey A. Landis: "The Sultan of the Clouds"
• Kage Baker: "The Books"
• Ian R. MacLeod: "Re-Crossing the Styx"
• Tad Williams: "And Ministers of Grace"
• Eleanor Arnason: "Mammoths of the Great Plains"
• Joe Haldeman: "Sleeping Dogs"
• Steven Popkes: "Jackie's Boy"
• Nina Allan: "Flying in the Face of God"
• Cory Doctorow: "Chicken Little"
• Yoon Ha Lee: "Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain"
• Stephen Baxter: "Return to Titan"
• Damien Broderick: "Under the Moons of Venus"
• Naomi Novik: "Seven Years from Home"
• Chris Beckett: "The Peacock Cloak"
• Carrie Vaughn: "Amaryllis"
• David Moles: "Seven Cities of Gold"
• Rachel Swirsky: "Again and Again and Again"
• Hannu Rajaniemi: "Elegy for a Young Elk"
• Michael Swanwick: "Libertarian Russia"
• Lavie Tidhar: "The Night Train"
• Brenda Cooper: "My Father's Singularity"
• Jay Lake and Ken Scholes: "The Starship Mechanic"
• Alastair Reynolds: "Sleepover"
• Pat Cadigan: "The Taste of Night"
• Alexander Jablokov: "Blind Cat Dance"
• Aliette de Bodard: "The Shipmaker"
• Ted Kosmatka: "In-Fall"
• Jim Hawkins: "Chimbwi"
• Robert Reed: "Dead Man's Run"

• 2011, United States, St. Martin's Press ISBN 978-0-312-54633-5, Pub date July 5, 2011, Hardcover ^[3]
• 2011, United States, St. Martin's Griffin ISBN 978-0-312-56950-1, Pub date July 5, 2011, Trade paperback ^[4]

• The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Review at Best SF by Mark Watson