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The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 22 (aka The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection)
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 22 - aka The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection Author:Gardner Dozois (Editor) Widely acclaimed as the benchmark annual anthology for science fiction fans, The Mammoth Book of Best New SF is now in its 22nd successful year. Best SF 22 comprises over two dozen fantastic new pieces from the world's best writers of science fiction. This collection encompasses every aspect of the genre: soft, hard, cyberpu... more »nk, cyber noir, anthropological, military, and adventure. As ever, a bonus extra is aninsightful review of the year's best books and an extensive list of recommended reading. Gardner Dozois is the world's leading SF anthologist, and has won the Hugo Award for Best Editor.
Contents, 30 stories:
Acknowledgments
Summation: 2008
Turing's Apple / Stephen Baxter;
From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled / Michael Swanwick;
The Gambler / Paolo Bacigalupi;
Boojum / Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette;
The Six Directions of Space / Alastair Reynolds;
N-Words / Ted Kosmatka;
An Eligible Boy / Ian McDonald;
Shining Armour / Dominic Green;
The Hero / Karl Schroeder;
Evil Robot Monkey / Mary Robinette Kowal;
Five Thrillers / Robert Reed;
The Sky That Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black / Jay Lake;
Incomers / Paul McAuley;
Crystal Nights / Greg Egan;
The Egg Man / Mary Rosenblum;
His Master's Voice / Hannu Rajamiemi;
The Political Prisoner / Charles Coleman Finlay;
Balancing Accounts / James L. Cambias;
Special Economics / Maureen McHugh;
Days of Wonder / Geoff Ryman;
City of the Dead / Paul McAuley;
The Voyage Out / Gywneth Jones;
The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm / Daryl Gregory;
G-Men / Kristine Kathryn Rusch;
The Erdmann Nexus / Nancy Kress;
Old Friends / Garth Nix;
The Ray Gun: A Love Story / James Alan Gardner;
Lester Young and the Jupiter Moon's Blues / Gord Sellar;
Butterfly, Falling at Dawn / Aliette de Bodard;
The Tear / Ian McDonald.
Honorable Mentions: 2008 • (2009) • essay by Gardner Dozois
Cover art: Joe Roberts.
In the UK the series is entitled: The Mammoth Book Of Best New SF, published by Robinson.
In the USA the series is entitled: The Year's Best Science Fiction, published by St Martin's Griffin.« less