Year's Best SF 10 Author:David G. Hartwell (Editor), Kathryn Cramer (Editor) A banner year for speculative fiction has yielded a crop of superb short form SF. Now the very best to appear over the past twelve months has been amassed into one extraordinary volume by acclaimed editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, offering bold visions of days to come that are bright, triumphant, breathtaking, and s... more »trikingly unique. Once more, celebrated masters of the field join with exciting new voices to sing of explorations and invasions, grand technological accomplishments, amazing flights into the unknown, horrors and miracles, and the human condition.
Welcome to amazing worlds that could be -- and, perhaps, sooner than you have ever dared to imagine.
Contents:
Acknowledgments, Introduction;
* Sergeant Chip / Bradley Denton;
* First Commandment / Gregory Benford;
* Burning Day / Glenn Grant;
* Scout's Honor / Terry Bisson;
* Venus Flowers at Night / Pamela Sargent;
* Pulp Cover / Gene Wolfe;
* The Algorithms for Love / Ken Liu;
* Glinky / Ray Vukcevich;
* Red City / Janeen Webb;
* Act of God / Jack McDevitt;
* Wealth / Robert Reed;
* Mastermindless / Matthew Hughes;
* Time, as it Evaporates-- / Jean-Claude Dunyach;
* The Battle of York / James Stoddard;
* Loosestrife / Liz Williams;
* The Dark Side of Town / James Patrick Kelly;
* Invisible Kingdoms / Steven Utley;
* The Cascade / Sean McMullen;
* Pervert / Charles Coleman Finlay;
* The Risk-Taking Gene as Expressed by Some Asian Subjects / Steve Tomasula;