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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection
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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 which 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
Completing the collection are Dozois's insightful survey of the year in science fiction and a long list of Honorable Mentions.
With its explorations of outer space and inner space, with its examinations of what it means to be human today and tomorrow, and with its love of a good yarn, this volume remains the single best source for science fiction stories.
Table of Contents:
- Summation: 1998 - essay by Gardner Dozois
- Oceanic - (1998) - novella by Greg Egan
- Approaching Perimelasma - (1998) - novelette by Geoffrey A. Landis
- Craphound - (1998) - shortstory by Cory Doctorow
- Jedella Ghost - (1998) - shortstory by Tanith Lee
- Taklamakan - (1998) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
- The Island of the Immortals - (1998) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Sea Change, with Monsters - (1998) - novella by Paul J. McAuley
- Divided by Infinity - (1998) - novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
- US - (1998) - shortstory by Howard Waldrop
- The Days of Solomon Gursky - (1998) - novella by Ian McDonald
- The Cuckoo's Boys - (1998) - novella by Robert Reed
- The Halfway House at the Heart of Darkness - (1998) - shortstory by William Browning Spencer
- The Very Pulse of the Machine - (1998) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
- Story of Your Life - (1998) - novella by Ted Chiang
- Voivodoi - (1998) - shortstory by Liz Williams
- Saddlepoint: Roughneck - (1998) - novella by Stephen Baxter
- This Side of Independence - (1998) - shortstory by Rob Chilson
- Unborn Again - (1998) - shortstory by Chris Lawson
- Grist - (1998) - novella by Tony Daniel
- La Cenerentola - (1998) - shortstory by Gwyneth Jones
- Down in the Dark - (1998) - novelette by William Barton
- Free in Asveroth - (1998) - shortstory by Jim Grimsley
- The Dancing Floor - (1998) - novelette by Cherry Wilder
- The Summer Isles - (1998) - novella by Ian R. MacLeod
- Honorable Mentions: 1998 - essay by Gardner Dozois
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