Best New SF 7 Author:Gardner Dozois (Editor) With stories about consciousness and conscience, about heroes and horrors, Best New SF 7 offers two dozen dazzling stories from some of science fiction's greatest writers. Splendors of the future and the past stand side by side in this terrific anthology. Ranging from visions of disaster, of cataclysmic asteroids, of war on Earth, of e... more »xperiments gone awry, to dazzling futures in which humanity and its creations are immortal and content, the future is sometimes frightening, sometimes awesome, and sometimes just plain weird. The past is no less fabulous, as master fabulists portray the way things might have been (and might yet be) in fascinating worlds like the Far East, the Kansas Territory, Martinique, Vietnam, and the Lower East Side of New York.
Contents:
Summation: 1992 • essay by Gardner Dozois
Griffin's Egg (1991) / novella by Michael Swanwick
Even the Queen (1992) / short story by Connie Willis
The Round-Eyed Barbarians (1992) / short story by L. Sprague de Camp
Dust (1992) / novelette by Greg Egan
Two Guys from the Future (1992) / short story by Terry Bisson
The Mountain to Mohammed (1992) / short story by Nancy Kress
The Coming of Vertumnus (1992) / novella by Ian Watson
A Long Night's Vigil at the Temple (1992) / novelette by Robert Silverberg
The Hammer of God (1992) / short story by Arthur C. Clarke
Grownups (1992) / novella by Ian R. MacLeod
Graves (1992) / short story by Joe Haldeman
The Glowing Cloud (1992) / novella by Steven Utley
Gravity's Angel (1992) / short story by Tom Maddox
Protection (1992) / novella by Maureen F. McHugh
The Last Cardinal Bird in Tennessee (1990) / short story by Neal Barrett, Jr.
Birth Day (1992) / short story by Robert Reed
Naming Names (1992) / novelette by Pat Cadigan
The Elvis National Theater of Okinawa (1992) / short story by Lukas Jaeger, Jonathan Lethem
The Territory (1992) / novella by Bradley Denton
The Best and the Rest of James Joyce (1992) / novelette by Ian McDonald
Naming the Flowers (1992) / novella by Kate Wilhelm
Snodgrass (1992) / novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
By the Mirror of My Youth (1992) / short story by Kathe Koja
Outnumbering the Dead (1990) / novella by Frederik Pohl
Honorable Mentions: 1992 • essay by Gardner Dozois
Also published titled: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection« less