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The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New SF (aka The Best of the Best: 20 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction)
The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New SF - aka The Best of the Best: 20 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction Author:Gardner Dozois (Editor) The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New SF--the ultimate collection--the cream of two decades of science fiction. Hugo Award-winning editor Gardner Dozois' annual anthology has long been considered the standard by which other best-of-the-year SF collections are judged. After two decades worth of superlative science fiction, Dozo... more »is now presents a retrospective compilation culling from the last 20 years. Here under one banner is some of the finest work by the genre's leading authors.
Contents, 39 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;
The Fluted Girl (2003) / Paolo Bacigalupi;
Footvote (2004) /Peter F. Hamilton;
Zima Blue (2005) / Alastair Reynolds.
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.
USA title: The Best of the Best: 20 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction.« less