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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection
The Year's Best Science Fiction Sixteenth Annual Collection Author:Gardner Dozois (Editor) Long regarded as the premier annual collection of science fiction stories, Gardner Dozois's latest volume of The Year's Best Science Fiction continues this tradition of excellence with twenty-five representing the finest offerings in the field. — Among the gems included here are: — "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang, in wh... more »ich the story of alien contact and a very human drama merge beautifully
"The Island of the Immortals" by Ursula K. Le Guin, in which a brave traveler investigates the reasons why people shun the exotic island
"Approaching Perimelasma" by Geoffrey A. Landis, which boldly takes us into a black hole and through the stunning changes that ensue
"Taklamakan" by Bruce Sterling, a wildly inventive tale of future spies in a Lost World
"The Summer Isles" by Ian R. MacLeod, a moving novella reflecting an alternate history in which the Great War turned out a bit differently
Contents, 25 stories:
Summation: 1998 by Gardner Dozois;
* Oceanic / Greg Egan;
* Approaching Perimelasma / Geoffrey A. Landis;
* Craphound / Cory Doctorow;
* Jedella Ghost / Tanith Lee;
* Taklamakan / Bruce Sterling;
* The Island of the Immortals / Ursula K. Le Guin;
* Sea Change, with Monsters / Paul J. McAuley;
* Divided by Infinity / Robert Charles Wilson;
* US / Howard Waldrop;
* The Days of Solomon Gursky / Ian McDonald;
* The Cuckoo’s Boys / Robert Reed;
* The Halfway House at the Heart of Darkness / William B. Spencer;
* The Very Pulse of the Machine / Michael Swanwick;