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The Best of the Best: 20 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction (aka The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New SF)
The Best of the Best 20 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction - aka The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New SF Author:Gardner Dozois (Editor) For years, The Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after twenty-one annual collections, comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies, The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction, in which legendary editor Gardner Dozois selects the very bes... more »t short stories for this landmark collection.
Contents, 36 stories:
Foreword (The Best of the Best: 20 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction) • essay by Robert Silverberg;
Preface (The Best of the Best: 20 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction) • essay by Gardner Dozois;
Blood Music (1983) / Greg Bear;
A Cabin on the Coast (1984) / Gene Wolfe;
Salvador (1984) / Lucius Shepard;
Trinity (1984) / Nancy Kress;
Flying Saucer Rock and Roll (1985) / Howard Waldrop;
Dinner in Audoghast (1985) / Bruce Sterling;
Roadside Rescue (1985) / Pat Cadigan;
Snow (1985) / John Crowley;
The Winter Market (1985) / William Gibson;
The Pure Product (1986) / John Kessel;
Stable Strategies for Middle Management (1988) / Eileen Gunn;
Kirinyaga (1988) / Mike Resnick;
Tales from the Venia Woods [Roma Eterna] (1989)) / Robert Silverberg;
Bears Discover Fire (1990) / Terry Bisson;
Even the Queen (1992) / Connie Willis;
Guest of Honor (1993) / Robert Reed;
None So Blind (1994) / Joe Haldeman;
Mortimer Gray's History of Death (1995) / Brian Stableford;
The Lincoln Train (1995) / Maureen F. McHugh;
Wang's Carpets (1995) / Greg Egan;
Coming of Age in Karhide (1995) / Ursula K. Le Guin;
The Dead (1996) / Michael Swanwick;
Recording Angel (1996) / Ian McDonald;
A Dry, Quiet War (1996) / Tony Daniel;
The Undiscovered (1997) / William Sanders;
Second Skin [The Quiet War] (1997) / Paul J. McAuley;
Story of Your Life (1998) / Ted Chiang;
People Came from Earth (1999) / Stephen Baxter;
The Wedding Album [Cathy] (1999) / David Marusek;
10 to 16 to 1 (1999) / James Patrick Kelly;
Daddy's World (1999) / Walter Jon Williams;
The Real World [Silurian Tales] (2000) / Steven Utley;
Have Not Have (2001) / Geoff Ryman;
Lobsters [Macx Family • 1] (2001) / Charles Stross;
Breathmoss (2002) / Ian R. MacLeod;
Lambing Season (2002) / Molly Gloss.
USA title: The Best of the Best: 20 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction.
UK title: The Mammoth Book of The Best of Best New SF. Note: UK edition adds three stories not in the aka US editions:The Fluted Girl (2003) / Paolo Bacigalupi; Footvote (2004) /Peter F. Hamilton; Zima Blue (2005) / Alastair Reynolds.« less