Year's Best SF 17 Author:David G. Hartwell (Editor), Kathryn Cramer (Editor) Once again, the finest short-form sf offerings of the year have been collected in a single volume. With Year's Best SF 17, acclaimed, award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer demonstrate the amazing depth and power of contemporary speculative fiction, showcasing astonishing stories from some of the... more » genre's most respected names as well as exciting new writers to watch. Prepare to travel light years from the ordinary into a tomorrow at once breathtaking, frightening, and possible, with tales of wonder.
Contents:
Introduction (Year's Best SF 17) • essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer;
The Best Science Fiction of the Year Three / Ken MacLeod;
Dolly / Elizabeth Bear;
Altogether Elsewhere, Vast Herds of Reindeer / Ken Liu;
Tethered / Mercurio D. Rivera;
Wahala / Nnedi Okorafor;
Laika's Ghost / Karl Schroeder;
Ragnarok / Paul Park;
Six Months, Three Days / Charlie Anders [as by Charlie Jane Anders];
And Weep Like Alexander / Neil Gaiman;
The Middle of Somewhere / Judith Moffett;
Mercies / Gregory Benford;
The Education of Junior Number 12 / Madeline Ashby;
Our Candidate / Robert Reed;
Thick Water / Karen Heuler;
The War Artist / Tony Ballantyne;
The Master of the Aviary / Bruce Sterling;
Home Sweet Bi'ome / Pat MacEwen;
For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I'll Not Be Back Again / Michael Swanwick;
The Ki-anna / Gwyneth Jones;
Eliot Wrote / Nancy Kress;
The Nearest Thing / Genevieve Valentine;
A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel / Yoon Ha Lee;