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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection (aka The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Fourth Annual Collection - aka The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction
Author: Gardner Dozois (Editor)
Anthology collection of the best science fiction novellas and short stories published in 1986.  The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow blurring the line between life and art. This collection explores ideas of a different world.  Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth An...  more » the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world.

Contents:

Introduction: Summation: 1986 • essay by Gardner Dozois

  • R & R / Lucius Shepard
  • Hatrack River [The Alvin Maker Saga] / Orson Scott Card
  • Strangers on Paradise / Damon Knight
  • Pretty Boy Crossover / Pat Cadigan
  • Against Babylon / Robert Silverberg
  • Fiddling for Waterbuffaloes / S. P. Somtow [as by Somtow Sucharitkul]
  • Into Gold / Tanith Lee
  • Sea Change / Scott Baker
  • Covenant of Souls / Michael Swanwick
  • The Pure Product / John Kessel
  • Grave Angels / Richard Kearns
  • Tangents / Greg Bear
  • The Beautiful and the Sublime / Bruce Sterling
  • Tattoos / Jack Dann
  • Night Moves / Tim Powers
  • The Prisoner of Chillon / James Patrick Kelly
  • Chance / Connie Willis
  • And so to Bed / Harry Turtledove
  • Fair Game / Howard Waldrop
  • Video Star / Walter Jon Williams
  • Sallie C. / Neal Barrett, Jr.
  • Jeff Beck / Lewis Shiner
  • Surviving / Judith Moffett
  • Down and Out in the Year 2000 / Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Snake-Eyes / Tom Maddox
  • The Gate of Ghosts / Karen Joy Fowler
  • The Winter Market / William Gibson


Honorable Mentions: 1986 • essay by Gardner Dozois

Cover art by Alan Gutierrez.

Also published as: The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction (1987) UK
ISBN-13: 9780312007096
ISBN-10: 0312007094
Publication Date: 5/1987
Pages: 602
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Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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