The Year's Best Science Fiction, Fifteenth Annual Collection - edited by Gardner Dozois.

Summation 1997 by Gardner Dozois
"Beauty in the Night" by Robert Silverberg
"Second Skin" by Paul J. McAuley
"Steamship Soldier on the Information Front" by Nancy Kress (Hugo nominee - in 1999)
"Reasons to Be Cheerful" by Greg Egan
"Moon Six" by Stephen Baxter (Hugo nominee)
"We Will Drink a Fish Together..." by Bill Johnson (Hugo winner - best novelette / Nebula nominee)
"Escape Route" by Peter F. Hamilton
"Itsy Bitsy Spider" by James Patrick Kelly (Hugo & Nebula nominee)
"A Spy in Europa" by Alastair Reynolds
"The Undiscovered" by William Sanders (Hugo & Nebula nominee)
"Echoes" by Alan Brenner
"Getting to Know You" by David Marusek
"Balinese Dancer" by Gwyneth Jones
"Marrow" by Robert Reed (Hugo nominee)
"Heart of Whitenesse" by Howard Waldrop
"The Wisdom of Old Earth" by Michael Swanwick
"The Pipes of Pan" by Brian Stableford
"Crossing Chao Meng Fu" by G. David Nordley
"Yeyuka" by Greg Egan
"Frost Painting" by Carolyn Ives Gilman
"Lethe" by Walter Jon Williams (Nebula nominee - in 1999)
"Winter Fire" by Geoffrey A. Landis (Nebula nominee - in 1999)
"Nevermore" by Ian R. MacLeod
"Open Veins" by Simon Ings
"After Kerry" by Ian McDonald
"The Masque of Agamemnon" by Sean Williams & Simon Brown
"Gulliver at Home" by John Kessel
"A Cold, Dry Cradle" by Gregory Benford & Elisabeth Malartre
Honorable Mentions: 1997