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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection (aka The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 13 )
The Year's Best Science Fiction Seventeenth Annual Collection - aka The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 13 Author:Gardner Dozois (Editor) In science fiction's early days, stories often looked past 1984 to the year 2000 as the far unknowable future. Here now, on the brink of the twenty-first century, the future remains as distant and as unknowable as ever . . . and science fiction stories continue to explore it with delightful results. The twenty-seven stories in this col... more »lection imaginatively take us to nearby planets and distant futures, into the past and into universes no larger than a grain of sand. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents. Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.
Contents:
Summation: 1999 • (2000) • essay by Gardner Dozois
The Wedding Album [Cathy] / David Marusek;
10 16' to 1 / James Patrick Kelly;
Winemaster / Robert Reed;
Galactic North [Revelation Space] / Alastair Reynolds;
Dapple: a Hwarhath Historical Romance / Eleanor Arnason;
People Came from Earth / Stephen Baxter;
Green Tea / Richard Wadholm;
The Dragon of Pripyat / Karl Schroeder;
Written in Blood / Chrius Lawson;
Hatching the Phoenix [Heechee] / Frederik Pohl
Suicide Coast / M. John Harrison;
Hunting Mother / Sage Walker;
Mount Olympus / Ben Bova;
Border Guards / Greg Egan;
Scherzo with Tyrannosaur / Michael Swanwick
A Hero of the Empire [Roma Eterna] / Robert Silverberg;
How We Lost the Moon, a True Story by Frank W. Allen / Paul J. McAuley;
Phallicide / Charles Sheffield;
Daddy's World / Walter Jon Williams;
A Martian Romance / Kim Stanley Robinson;
The Sky-Green Blues / Tanith Lee;
Exchange Rate / Hal Clement;
Everywhere / Geoff Ryman;
Hothouse Flowers / Mike Resnick;
Evermore / Sean Williams;
Of Scorned Women and Causal Loops / Robert Grossbach;
Son Observe the Time [Company] / Kage Baker;
Honorable mentions: 1999.
Cover art by Cover: Michael Carroll .
also published as: The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 13 (2000)« less
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