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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection (aka The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 18)
The Year's Best Science Fiction TwentySecond Annual Collection - aka The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 18 Author:Gardner Dozois (Editor) Widely regarded as the one essential book for every science fiction fan, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection (2005) (Winner of the 2004 Locus Award for Best Anthology) continues to uphold its standard of excellence with stories representing the previous year's best SF writing. The stories in ... more »this collection imaginatively take readers far across the universe, into the very core of their beings, to the realm of the Gods, and to the moment just after now. Included are the works of masters of the form and the bright new talents of tomorrow.
Contents:
Acknowledgments (The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection) • (2005) • essay by Gardner Dozois
Summation: 2004 • essay by Gardner Dozois
Inappropriate Behavior / Pat Murphy
Start the Clock / Benjamin Rosenbaum
The Third Party / David Moles
The Voluntary State / Christopher Rowe
Shiva in Shadow / Nancy Kress
The People of Sand and Slag / Paolo Bacigalupi
The Clapping Hands of God / Michael F. Flynn
Tourism / M. John Harrison
Scout's Honor / Terry Bisson
Men Are Trouble / James Patrick Kelly
Mother Aegypt [Company] / Kage Baker
Synthetic Serendipity / Vernor Vinge
Skin Deep / Mary Rosenblum
Delhi / Vandana Singh
The Tribes of Bela [Colonel Kohn] / Albert E. Cowdrey
Sitka / William Sanders
Leviathan Wept / Daniel Abraham
The Defenders / Colin P. Davies
Mayflower II [Xeelee] / Stephen Baxter
Riding the White Bull / Caitlín R. Kiernan
Falling Star / Brendan DuBois
The Dragons of Summer Gulch / Robert Reed
The Ocean of the Blind / James L. Cambias
The Garden: A Hwarhath Science Fictional Romance [Hwarhath] / Eleanor Arnason
Footvote / Peter F. Hamilton
Sisyphus and the Stranger / Paul Di Filippo (trans. of Sisyphe et l'étranger)
Ten Sigmas / Paul Melko
Investments [Dread Empire's Fall] / Walter Jon Williams
Honorable Mentions: 2004 • essay by Gardner Dozois
Cover art by Stephan Martiniere,
Also published as: The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 18 (2005) UK« less