I love anthologies of science fiction short stories – a chance to read new stories by familiar authors, as well as the opportunity to find out about new authors to follow up at the library. Just reading "Year’s Best SF 11" by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer which was published back in 2006, and really enjoyed the following stories.

A Case of Consilience by Ken MacLeod intentionally picks up on James Blish’s pondering of religion in outer space in A Case of Conscience (See Greenflame: Books from Blogs). You can read it over here.

Secondly, David Langford’s New Hope for the Dead deals with the issue of transhumanist uploading – and more particularly who pays for that, a point I rarely/never see written about in their literature. Again, you can read the story over here at New Hope for the Dead.