Search Worlds Without End

Table of Contents:

• In Search of European Science Fiction - essay by Richard D. Nolane
• Test Flesh - short story by Gianni Montanari (trans. of Universo e Dintorni 1978)
• Parallel Worlds - short story by Paul van Herck (trans. of Parallel 1978)
• The Fifth Time Out - short story by Bertil Martensson
• Drugs'll Do You - (1978) - short story by Kathinka Lannoy (trans. of Drugs)
• Opportunities Galore (Cuestión de oportunidades) - (1978) - novelette by Gabriel Bermúdez Castillo (trans. of Cuestión de oportunidades)
• Fill in the Blank(s) - (1978) - novelette by Michel Jeury (trans. of Les colmateurs)
• Where Neuroses Thrive - short story by Richard D. Nolane (trans. of Où fleurissent les névroses 1978)
• Back to Earth, Finally - (1976) - novelette by Philip Goy (trans. of Retour à la Terre, définitif)
• Take Me Down the River - (1979) - short story by Sam J. Lundwall
• Turnabout - (1977) - short story by Ingar Knudtsen, Jr.
• Aruna - (1979) - short story by Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff
• Red Rhombuses - (1981) - novelette by Lino Aldani (trans. of Screziato di rosso 1977)
• The Many Miniworlds of Matuschek - novelette by Thomas Ziegler (trans. of Matuscheks Welten 1978)
• End of an Era - novelette by Hans Joachim Alpers and Ronald M. Hahn (trans. of Zusammenbruch 1976)
• Meet the Authors - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Preface - essay by Richard D. Nolane
• Shoobeedoowah Across the Universe - short story by Karl Michael Armer (trans. of Durch das Weltall, schubiduwah 1986)
• The Hospital, a Cynical Fable - short story by Daniel Walther (trans. of L'hôpital, une fable cynique 1982)
• El Pape - (1983) - novelette by Bob van Laerhoven (trans. of El Pape)
• John Henry - short story by Øyvind Myhre
• The Biological Truth - (1982) - short story by Veikko Rekunen
• Disslish the Aquamancer - short story by Tais Teng (trans. of Disslish de Aquamancer 1981)
• The Last Atlantean - short story by Francis Carsac (trans. of Celui qui vint de la Grande Eau 1982)
• Mikey Turns Three - short story by Merete Kruuse (trans. of Mugger Blive Tre)
• The Emerald-Studded Scepter - novelette by Carlos Saiz Cidoncha (trans. of El cetro de esmeraldas 1980)
• In Search of Aurade - novelette by Gianluigi Zuddas (trans. of Per cercare Aurade 1981)
• The Ogre's Head - short story by Richard D. Nolane (trans. of La tête de l'ogre)
• Haike the Heretic's Writings - novelette by Wolfgang Jeschke (trans. of Dokumente über den Zustand des Landes vor der Verheerung 1981)

Contents:

• Preface (The Year's Best Military SF & Space Opera) - essay by David Afsharirad
• Excitement! Adventure! Science Fiction! - essay by David Drake
• Codename: Delphi - (2014) - shortstory by Linda Nagata
• Persephone Descending - (2014) - novelette by Derek Künsken
• The End of the Silk Road - (2014) - novelette by David D. Levine
• Picket Ship - shortstory by Brad R. Torgersen
• Decaying Orbit - (2014) - shortstory by Robert R. Chase
• Morrigan in the Sunglare - (2014) - shortstory by Seth Dickinson
• Light and Shadow - (2014) - shortstory by Linda Nagata
• Icarus at Noon - (2014) - shortstory by Eric Leif Davin
• Soft Casualty - shortstory by Michael Z. Williamson
• Palm Strike's Last Case - (2014) - novelette by Charlie Jane Anders
• Brood - (2013) - novelette by Stephen Gaskell
• Stealing Arturo - novelette by William Ledbetter
• Rules of Engagement - (2014) - novelette by Matthew Johnson
• Ten Rules for Being an Intergalactic Smuggler (the Successful Kind) - (2014) - novelette by Holly Black
• War Dog - (2014) - shortstory by Mike Barretta

The year's best military SF, space opera, and adventure SF stories. The second of a new series featuring the best stories of the year from the top magazines and online venues with a military and adventure science fiction theme.

The new Golden Age of short science fiction has arrived! Selected from the premier print and online markets in the field, here are stories to challenge, provoke, thrill, and entertain. Stories of future military men and women, space opera on a grand scale, and edge-of-your-seat adventure science fiction in the grand pulp tradition. The second volume in an on-going series, The Year's Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction, features stories by giants of the genre and the hottest new voices.

Table of Contents:

• "The Siege of Denver" by Brendan Dubois
• "Save What You Can" by David Drake
• "For The Love Of Sylvia City" by Andrea M. Pawley
• "The Wizard of The Trees" by Joe R. Lansdale
• "Helping Hand" by Claudine Griggs
• "Morrigan In Shadow" by Seth Dickinson
• "Remember Day" by Sarah Pinsker
• "Gyre" by Brad R. Torgersen
• "Twilight on Olympus" by Eric Leif Davin
• "The Trouble With Telepaths" by Hank Davis
• "This Is The Way The Universe Ends: With A Bang" by Brian Dolton
• "The Tumbledowns Of Cleopatra Abyss" by David Brin

The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF series continues! Selected from the top print and online markets, these stories represent the best in modern military sf, space opera, and adventure sf.

Tales of brave military men and women, thrilling derring-do, and edge-of-your-seat suspense. Selected from the top markets, both print and digital, The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF Volume 3 offers up the cream of the crop in short science fiction today. Stories to get your blood racing, your heart pounding, and your fingers turning the pages. Stories to challenge, provoke, thrill, and entertain. Stories that prove the new Golden Age is now!

Table of Contents:

• Preface - essay by David Afsharirad
• Introduction - essay by David Weber
• Cadet Cruise - (2016) - short fiction by David Drake
• Tethers - (2016) - short fiction by William Ledbetter
• Unlinkage - (2016) - novelette by Eric Del Carlo
• Not in Vain - (2016) - novelette by Kacey Ezell
• Between Nine and Eleven - (2016) - short story by Adam Roberts
• Sephine and the Leviathan - (2016) - novelette by Jack Schouten
• The Good Food - (2016) - short fiction by Michael Ezell
• If I Could Give This Time Machine Zero Stars, I Would - (2016) - short story by James Wesley Rogers
• Wise Child - (2016) - novelette by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
• Starhome - (2016) - short fiction by Michael Z. Williamson
• The Art of Failure - (2016) - short fiction by Robert Dawson
• The Last Tank Commander - (2016) - novelette by Allen Stroud
• One Giant Leap - (2016) - short story by Jay Werkheiser
• The Immortals: Anchorage - (2016) - novelette by David Adams
• Backup Man - (2016) - short story by Paul Di Filippo

The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF series roars into its fourth year, with more stories of derring-do, military combat, and edge of your seat suspense. Thrilling tales of grand science fiction adventure and military action. Selected from the top print and digital markets, these stories are guaranteedd to challenge, provoke, and entertain.

Table of Contents:

• Preface - essay by David Afsharirad
• The Secret Life of Bots - (2017) - novelette by Suzanne Palmer
• The Snatchers - (2017) - short story by Edward McDermott
• Imperium Imposter - (2017) - short story by Jody Lynn Nye
• A Thousand Deaths Through Flesh and Stone - (2017) - short story by Brian Trent
• Hope Springs - (2017) - novelette by Lindsay Buroker
• Orphans of Aries - (2017) - novelette by Brad R. Torgersen
• By the Red Giant's Light - (2017) - short story by Larry Niven
• Family Over Blood - (2017) - novelette by Kacey Ezell
• A Man They Didn't Know - (2017) - short story by David Hardy
• Swarm - (2017) - short story by Sean Patrick Hazlett
• A Hamal in Hollywood - (2017) - novelette by Martin L. Shoemaker
• Lovers - (2017) - novelette by Tony Daniel
• The Ghost Ship Anastasia - (2017) - novelette by Rich Larson
• You Can Always Change the Past - (2017) - short story by George Nikolopoulos
• Our Sacred Honor - (2017) - novelette by David Weber

The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF series roars into its fifth year, with more stories of derring-do, military combat, and edge of your seat suspense. Thrilling tales of grand science fiction adventure and military action. Selected from the top print and digital markets, these stories are guaranteed to challenge, provoke, and entertain.

Table of Contents:

• "Love in the Time of Interstellar War" by Brendan DuBois
• "Going Dark" by Richard Fox
• "Scrapyard Ship" by Felix R. Savage
• "Broken Wings" by William Ledbetter
• "A Song of Home, the Organ Grinds" by James Beamon
• "Once on the Blue Moon" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• "Crash-Site" by Brian Trent
• "Thirty-three Percent Joe" by Suzanne Palmer
• "Hate in the Darkness" by Michael Z. Williamson
• "Homunculus" by Stephen Lawson
• "Not Made for Us" by Christopher Ruocchio
• "The Erkennen Job" by Chris Pourteau

Table of Contents:

• Bernie the Faust - (1963) - novelette by William Tenn
• Fortress Ship - [Berserker] - (1963) - shortstory by Fred Saberhagen
• Mr. Waterman - (1961) - shortstory by Peter Redgrove
• Mrs. Pigafetta Swims Well - (1959) - shortstory by Reginald Bretnor
• Tree Trunks (cartoon) - (1963) - interior artwork by John Gallagher
• They Don't Make Life Like They Used To - (1963) - novelette by Alfred Bester
• The Great Nebraska Sea - (1963) - shortstory by Allan Danzig
• The Faces Outside - (1963) - shortstory by Bruce McAllister
• A Slight Case of Limbo - (1963) - shortstory by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
• 237 Talking Statues, Etc. - (1963) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• The Jazz Machine - (1962) - poem by Richard Matheson
• Mourning Song - (1963) - shortstory by Charles Beaumont
• Dog Eat Dog (cartoon) - (1963) - interior artwork by Jules Feiffer
• The Jewbird - (1963) - shortstory by Bernard Malamud
• On the Fourth Planet - (1963) - shortstory by J. F. Bone
• Poppa Needs Shorts - (1964) - shortstory by Walt Richmond and Leigh Richmond
• Double Standard - (1963) - shortstory by Fredric Brown
• Interview - (1963) - shortstory by Frank A. Javor
• Eight O'Clock in the Morning - (1963) - shortstory by Ray Nelson
• Where Is Everybody? - (1963) - essay by Ben Bova
• The Earth Dwellers - (1963) - novelette by André Maurois
• The Nobel Prize Winners - (1963) - shortstory by W. J. J. Gordon
• Hot Planet - (1963) - shortstory by Hal Clement
• IBM (cartoon) - (1963) - interior artwork by Mort Gerberg
• Confessions of the First Number - (1963) - shortstory by Cliff Owsley
• The Ming Vase - (1963) - shortstory by E. C. Tubb
• A Bargain with Cashel - (1963) - shortstory by Gerald Kersh
• Drunkboat - (1963) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• Summation: SF, 1963 - essay by Judith Merril
• Books - essay by Anthony Boucher
• Honorable Mentions - essay by Judith Merril

WORLD-ALTERING SCIENCE FICTION

• Tales of wonder and adventure, set on distant planets or in the future of our own
• Stories that go beyond the limits of Space and Time
• David G. Hartwell has brought together only the best of this year's new SF from established pros and audacious newcomers, selecting only those that share the universal quality of great science fiction.

Our familiar world will look a little less familiar after you read one.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Science Fiction is Alive and Well - (1996) - essay by David G. Hartwell
• Think Like a Dinosaur - (1995) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• Wonders of the Invisible World - (1995) - shortstory by Patricia A. McKillip
• Hot Times in Magma City - (1995) - novella by Robert Silverberg
• Gossamer - (1995) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
• A Worm in the Well - (1995) - novelette by Gregory Benford
• Downloading Midnight - (1995) - novelette by William Browning Spencer
• For White Hill - (1995) - novella by Joe Haldeman
• In Saturn Time - (1995) - shortstory by William Barton
• Coming of Age in Karhide - (1995) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Three Descents of Jeremy Baker - (1995) - shortstory by Roger Zelazny
• Evolution - (1995) - novelette by Nancy Kress
• The Day the Aliens Came - (1995) - shortstory by Robert Sheckley
• Microbe - (1995) - shortstory by Joan Slonczewski
• The Ziggurat - (1995) - novella by Gene Wolfe

Building on the unprecedented success of last season's Year's Best, award-winning editor David G. Hartwell has once again scoured the magazines and anthologies to bring together the very best of today's edgy, audacious, and innovative SF. Here are machines that dream and stars that sing; tales from notable pros and heretofore unknowns;wondrously diverse stories that share the sense of wonder that is the mark of great science fiction.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1997) - essay by David G. Hartwell
• After a Lean Winter - (1996) - novelette by Dave Wolverton
• In the Upper Room - (1996) - novelette by Terry Bisson
• Thinkertoy - (1996) - short story by John Brunner
• Zoomers - (1996) - short story by Gregory Benford
• Out of the Mouths - (1996) - novelette by Sheila Finch
• Breakaway, Backdown - (1996) - short story by James Patrick Kelly
• Tobacco Words - (1996) - novelette by Yves Meynard
• Invasion - (1996) - short story by Joanna Russ
• The House of Mourning - (1996) - short story by Brian Stableford
• Life Edit - (1996) - short story by Damon Knight
• First Tuesday - (1996) - short story by Robert Reed
• The Spear of the Sun - (1996) - short story by David Langford
• Counting Cats in Zanzibar - (1996) - short story by Gene Wolfe
• Bicycle Repairman - (1996) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland - (1996) - short story by Gwyneth Jones
• Doblin's Lecture - (1996) - short story by Allen Steele
• The Bride of Elvis - (1996) - short story by Kathleen Ann Goonan
• Forget Luck - (1996) - short story by Kate Wilhelm
• Nonstop to Portales - (1996) - novelette by Connie Willis
• Columbiad - (1996) - short story by Stephen Baxter

Enjoy today's most awesome and innovative science fiction, chosen by acclaimed editor David G. Hartwell from the best short fiction published over the last year.

Like its two distinguished processors, Year's Best SF 3 is a cybercopia of astonishing stories from familiar favorites and rising stars, all calculated to blow your mind, scorch your, senses, erase your inhibitions, and reinitialize your intelligence.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Year's Best SF 3) - (1998) - essay by David G. Hartwell
• Petting Zoo - (1997) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• The Wisdom of Old Earth - (1997) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• The Firefly Tree - (1997) - shortstory by Jack Williamson
• Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City - (1997) - shortstory by William Gibson
• The Nostalginauts - (1997) - shortstory by S. N. Dyer
• Guest Law - (1997) - novelette by John C. Wright
• The Voice - (1997) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
• Yeyuka - (1997) - shortstory by Greg Egan
• An Office Romance - (1997) - shortstory by Terry Bisson
• Itsy Bitsy Spider - (1997) - shortstory by James Patrick Kelly
• Beauty in the Night - (1997) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• Mr. Pale - (1997) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• The Pipes of Pan - (1997) - novelette by Brian Stableford
• Always True to Thee, in My Fashion - (1997) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• Canary Land - (1997) - novelette by Tom Purdom
• Universal Emulators - (1997) - shortstory by Tom Cool
• Fair Verona - (1997) - novelette by R. Garcia y Robertson
• Great Western - (1997) - novelette by Kim Newman
• Turnover - (1997) - shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis
• The Mendelian Lamp Case - (1997) - novelette by Paul Levinson
• Kiss Me - (1997) - shortstory by Katherine MacLean
• London Bone - (1997) - novelette by Michael Moorcock

Travel to the Farthest Reaches of the Imagination

Acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell is back with his fourth annual high-powered collection of the year's most inventive, entertaining, and awe-inspiring science fiction. In short, the best.

Here are stories from today's top name authors, plus exciting newcomers, all eager to land you on exotic planets, introduce you to strange new life forms, and show you scenes more amazing than anything you've imagined.

So sit back and blast off for an amazing trip with

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1999) - essay by David G. Hartwell
• Market Report - (1998) - novelette by Alexander Jablokov
• A Dance to Strange Musics - (1998) - novelette by Gregory Benford
• The Year of the Mouse - (1998) - short story by Norman Spinrad
• The Day Before They Came - (1998) - short story by Mary Soon Lee
• This Side of Independence - (1998) - short story by Rob Chilson
• The Twelfth Album - (1998) - short story by Stephen Baxter
• Story of Your Life - (1998) - novella by Ted Chiang
• Whiptail - (1998) - short story by Robert Reed
• The Eye of God - (1998) - novelette by Mary Rosenblum
• Rules of Engagement - (1998) - novelette by Michael F. Flynn
• Radiant Doors - (1998) - short story by Michael Swanwick
• Unravelling the Thread - (1998) - short story by Jean-Claude Dunyach
• That Thing Over There - (1998) - short story by Dominic Green
• The Allies - (1998) - novelette by Mark S. Geston
• My Pal Clunky - (1998) - short story by Ron Goulart
• Life in the Extreme - (1998) - short story by David Brin
• Near Enough to Home - (1998) - short story by Michael Skeet
• A Game of Consequences - (1998) - short story by David Langford
• State of Nature - (1998) - short story by Nancy Kress
• Maneki Neko - (1998) - short story by Bruce Sterling

Experience New Realms

Acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell returns with this fifth annual collection of the year's most imaginative, entertaining, and mind-expanding science fiction.

Here are works from some of today's most acclaimed authors, as well as visionary new talents, that will introduce you to new ideas, offer unusual perspectives, and take you to places beyond your wildest imaginings.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2000) - essay by David G. Hartwell
• Everywhere - (1999) - shortstory by Geoff Ryman
• Evolution Never Sleeps - (1999) - shortstory by Elisabeth Malartre
• Sexual Dimorphism - (1999) - shortstory by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Game of the Century - (1999) - novelette by Robert Reed
• Secrets of the Alien Reliquary - (1998) - poem by Michael Bishop
• Kinds of Strangers - (1999) - novelette by Sarah Zettel
• Visit the Sins - (1999) - shortstory by Cory Doctorow
• Border Guards - (1999) - novelette by Greg Egan
• macs - (1999) - shortstory by Terry Bisson
• Written in Blood - (1999) - shortstory by Chris Lawson
• Has Anybody Seen Junie Moon? - (1999) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• The Blue Planet - (1999) - shortstory by Robert J. Sawyer
• Lifework - (1999) - shortstory by Mary Soon Lee
• Rosetta Stone - (2000) - shortstory by Fred Lerner
• An Apollo Asteroid - (1999) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• 100 Candles - (1999) - shortstory by Curt Wohleber
• Democritus' Violin - (1999) - shortstory by G. David Nordley
• Fossil Games - (1999) - novelette by Tom Purdom
• Valour - (1999) - shortstory by Chris Beckett
• Huddle - (1999) - novelette by Stephen Baxter
• Ashes and Tombstones - (1999) - shortstory by Brian Stableford
• Ancient Engines - (1999) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• Freckled Figure - (1992) - shortstory by Hiroe Suga
• Shiva - (1999) - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
• The Queen of Erewhon - (1999) - novelette by Lucy Sussex

Get Ready To Expand Your Mind...

Acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell is back with the sixth annual collection of the year's most impressive, thought-provoking, and just plain great science fiction.

Year's Best SF 6 includes contributions from the greatest stars of the field as well as remarkable newcomers -- galaxies and into unexplored territory deep within your own soul.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (2001) - essay by David G. Hartwell
• Reef - (2000) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
• Reality Check - (2000) - short story by David Brin
• The Millennium Express - (2000) - short story by Robert Silverberg
• Patient Zero - (2000) - short story by Tananarive Due
• The Oort Crowd - (2000) - short story by Ken MacLeod
• The Thing About Benny - (2000) - short story by M. Shayne Bell
• The Last Supper - (2000) - short story by Brian Stableford
• Tuberculosis Bacteria Join UN - (2000) - short story by Joan Slonczewski
• Our Mortal Span - (2000) - short story by Howard Waldrop
• Different Kinds of Darkness - (2000) - short story by David Langford
• New Ice Age, or Just Cold Feet? - (2000) - short story by Norman Spinrad
• The Devotee - (2000) - novelette by Stephen Dedman
• The Marriage of Sky & Sea - (2000) - short story by Chris Beckett
• In the Days of the Comet - (2000) - short story by John M. Ford
• The Birthday of the World - (2000) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Oracle - (2000) - novella by Greg Egan
• To Cuddle Amy - (2000) - short story by Nancy Kress
• Steppenpferd - (2000) - short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• Sheena 5 - (2000) - short story by Stephen Baxter
• The Fire Eggs - (2000) - short story by Darrell Schweitzer
• The New Horla - (2000) - short story by Robert Sheckley
• Madame Bovary, C'est Moi - (2000) - short story by Dan Simmons
• Grandma's Jumpman - (2000) - short story by Robert Reed
• Bordeaux Mixture - (2000) - short story by Henry Gee
• The Dryad's Wedding - (2000) - novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
• Built Upon the Sands of Time - (2000) - short story by Michael F. Flynn
• Seventy-Two Letters - (2000) - novella by Ted Chiang

Once again, the year's finest flights of speculative imagination are gathered in one extraordinary volume, compiled by acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell. From some of the most renowned visionaries of contemporary SF -- as well as new writers who are already making an indelible mark -- comes an all-new compendium of unparalleled tales of the possible that will enthrall, astonish, terrify, and elate. Stories of strange worlds and mind-boggling futures, of awesome discoveries and apocalyptic disasters, of universes light years distant and deep within the human consciousness, are collected here as SF's brightest lights shine more radiantly than ever before.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2002) - essay by Kathryn Cramer and David G. Hartwell
• Computer Virus - (2001) - novelette by Nancy Kress
• Charlie's Angels - (2001) - shortstory by Terry Bisson
• The Measure of All Things - (2001) - novelette by Richard Chwedyk
• Russian Vine - (2001) - shortstory by Simon Ings
• Under's Game - (2001) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• A Matter of Mathematics - (2001) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• Creative Destruction - (2001) - novelette by Edward M. Lerner
• Resurrection - (2001) - shortstory by David Morrell
• The Cat's Pajamas - (2001) - novelette by James Morrow
• The Dog Said Bow-Wow - (2001) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• The Building - (2001) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Grey Earth - (2001) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
• The Lagan Fishers - (2001) - shortstory by Terry Dowling
• In Xanadu - (2001) - shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
• The Go-Between - (2001) - novelette by Lisa Goldstein
• Viewpoint - (2001) - novelette by Gene Wolfe
• Anomalies - (2001) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
• Glacial - (2001) - novella by Alastair Reynolds
• Undone - (2001) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly

Brave New Worlds To Explore and Conquer

The astonishingly possible is once again showcased in a breathtaking volume of the best short form SF the past year had to offer. Contributed by some of the most revered and exciting voices in the genre -- and compiled by acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell -- these stories of wonder and terror, astounding technologies and miraculous discovery, stretch the imagination into realms and universes never dreamed of before. Each tale is a dazzling gem, rocketing readers across light years and into unknown dimensions -- exploring the intricate cultures of alien races and the strange, secret workings of the human mind. And together they form an unparalleled whole -- a collection of luminous visions that shines more brightly than a newborn sun.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (2003) - essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
• In Paradise - (2002) - short story by Bruce Sterling
• Slow Life - (2002) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
• Knapsack Poems - (2002) - short story by Eleanor Arnason
• At Dorado - (2002) - short story by Geoffrey A. Landis
• Coelacanths - (2002) - novelette by Robert Reed
• Flight Correction - (2002) - short story by Ken Wharton
• Shoes - (2002) - short story by Robert Sheckley
• The Diamond Drill - (2002) - short story by Charles Sheffield
• The Seasons of the Ansarac - (2002) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• A Few Kind Words for A. E. Van Vogt - (2002) - poem by Richard Chwedyk
• Halo - (2002) - novelette by Charles Stross
• I Saw the Light - (2002) - short story by Terry Bisson
• A Slow Day at the Gallery - (2002) - short story by A. M. Dellamonica
• Ailoura - (2002) - novelette by Paul Di Filippo
• The Names of All the Spirits - (2002) - short story by J. R. Dunn
• Grandma - (2002) - short story by Carol Emshwiller
• Snow in the Desert - (2002) - novelette by Neal Asher
• Singleton - (2002) - novella by Greg Egan
• Geropods - (2002) - short story by Robert Onopa
• Afterlife - (2002) - short story by Jack Williamson
• Shields of Mars - (2002) - short story by Gene Wolfe
• Patent Infringement - (2002) - short story by Nancy Kress
• Lost Sorceress of the Silent Citadel - (2002) - novelette by Michael Moorcock

The world as we will know it is far different from the future once predicted in simpler times. For this newest collection of the finest short form SF to appear in print over the preceding year, acclaimed editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer have gathered remarkable works that reflect a new sensibility. Courageous and diverse stories from some of the finest authors in the field grace this amazing volume -- adventures and discoveries, parables and warnings, carrying those eager to fly to far ends of a vast, ever-shifting universe of alien worlds, strange cultures, and mind-bending technologies. Tomorrow has never been as spellbinding, terrifying, or transforming as it is here, today, in these extraordinary pages. Hang on!

Contents:

• Introduction (Year's Best SF 9) - (2004) - essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
• Amnesty - (2003) - novelette by Octavia E. Butler
• Birth Days - (2003) - short story by Geoff Ryman
• The Waters of Meribah - (2003) - short story by Tony Ballantyne
• Ej-Es - (2003) - short story by Nancy Kress
• Four Short Novels - (2001) - short story by Joe Haldeman
• Rogue Farm - (2003) - short story by Charles Stross
• The Violet's Embryos - (2003) - novelette by Angélica Gorodischer (trans. of Los embriones del violeta 1973)
• Coyote at the End of History - (2003) - short story by Michael Swanwick
• In Fading Suns and Dying Moons - (2003) - novelette by John Varley
• Castaway - (2003) - short story by Gene Wolfe
• The Hydrogen Wall - (2001) - novelette by Gregory Benford
• The Day We Went Through the Transition - (1998) - short story by Ricard de la Casa and Pedro Jorge Romero (trans. of Ed día que hicimos la Transición 1997)
• Nimby and the Dimension Hoppers - (2003) - short story by Cory Doctorow
• Night of Time - (2003) - short story by Robert Reed
• A Night on the Barbary Coast - (2003) - short story by Kage Baker
• Annuity Clinic - (2003) - short story by Nigel Brown
• The Madwoman of Shuttlefield - (2003) - novelette by Allen Steele
• Bread and Bombs - (2003) - short story by M. Rickert
• The Great Game - (2003) - short story by Stephen Baxter
• The Albertine Notes - (2003) - novella by Rick Moody

A banner year for speculative fiction has yielded a crop of superb short form SF. Now the very best to appear over the past twelve months has been amassed into one extraordinary volume by acclaimed editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, offering bold visions of days to come that are bright, triumphant, breathtaking, and strikingly unique. Once more, celebrated masters of the field join with exciting new voices to sing of explorations and invasions, grand technological accomplishments, amazing flights into the unknown, horrors and miracles, and the human condition.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2005) - essay by Kathryn Cramer and David G. Hartwell
• Sergeant Chip - (2004) - novella by Bradley Denton
• The First Commandment - (2004) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
• Burning Day - (2003) - novelette by Glenn Grant
• Scout's Honor - (2004) - shortstory by Terry Bisson
• Venus Flowers at Night - (2004) - novella by Pamela Sargent
• Pulp Cover - (2004) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• The Algorithms for Love - (2004) - shortstory by Ken Liu
• Glinky - (2004) - shortstory by Ray Vukcevich
• The Red City - (2004) - novelette by Janeen Webb
• Act of God - (2004) - shortstory by Jack McDevitt
• Wealth - (2004) - shortstory by Robert Reed
• Mastermindless - (2004) - novelette by Matthew Hughes
• Time, as It Evaporates... - (2004) - shortstory by Jean-Claude Dunyach (trans. of Le temps, en s'évaporant 1986)
• The Battle of York - (2004) - novelette by James Stoddard
• Loosestrife - (2004) - shortstory by Liz Williams
• The Dark Side of Town - (2004) - shortstory by James Patrick Kelly
• Invisible Kingdoms - (2004) - shortstory by Steven Utley
• The Cascade - (2004) - shortstory by Sean McMullen
• Pervert - (2004) - shortstory by Charles Coleman Finlay
• The Risk-Taking Gene as Expressed in Some Asian Subjects - (2004) - novelette by Steve Tomasula
• Strood - (2004) - shortstory by Neal Asher
• The Eckener Alternative - (2004) - shortstory by James L. Cambias
• Savant Songs - (2004) - shortstory by Brenda Cooper

This is the best short form science fiction of 2005, selected by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, two of the most respected editors in the field. The short story is one of the most vibrant and exciting areas in science fiction today. It is where the hot new authors emerge and where the beloved giants of the field continue to publish. Now, building on the success of the first nine volumes, Eos will once again present a collection of the best stories of the year in mass market. Here, selected and compiled by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, two of the most respected editors in the field, are stories with visions of tomorrow and yesterday, of the strange and the familiar, of the unknown and the unknowable. With stories from an all-star team of science fiction authors, "Year's Best Sf 11" is an indispensable guide for every science fiction fan.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2006) - essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
• New Hope for the Dead - (2005) - shortstory by David Langford
• Deus Ex Homine - (2005) - shortstory by Hannu Rajaniemi
• When the Great Days Came - (2005) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois
• Second Person, Present Tense - (2005) - novelette by Daryl Gregory
• Dreadnought - (2005) - shortstory by Justina Robson
• A Case of Consilience - (2005) - shortstory by Ken MacLeod
• Toy Planes - (2005) - shortstory by Tobias S. Buckell
• Mason's Rats - (1992) - shortstory by Neal Asher
• A Modest Proposal - (2005) - shortstory by Vonda N. McIntyre
• Guadalupe and Hieronymus Bosch - (2005) - shortstory by Rudy Rucker
• The Forever Kitten - (2005) - shortstory by Peter F. Hamilton
• City of Reason - (2005) - novelette by Matthew Jarpe
• Ivory Tower - (2005) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
• Sheila - (2005) - shortstory by Lauren McLaughlin
• Rats of the System - (2005) - shortstory by Paul J. McAuley
• I Love Liver: A Romance - (2005) - shortstory by Larissa Lai
• The Edge of Nowhere - (2005) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• What's Expected of Us - (2005) - shortstory by Ted Chiang
• Girls and Boys, Come Out to Play - (2005) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
• Lakes of Light - (2005) - novelette by Stephen Baxter
• The Albian Message - (2005) - shortstory by Oliver Morton
• Bright Red Star - (2005) - shortstory by Bud Sparhawk
• Third Day Lights - (2005) - novelette by Alaya Dawn Johnson
• RAM Shift Phase 2 - (2005) - shortstory by Greg Bear
• On the Brane - (2004) - novelette by Gregory Benford
• Oxygen Rising - (2005) - novelette by R. Garcia y Robertson
• And Future King ... - (2005) - shortstory by Adam Roberts
• Beyond the Aquila Rift - (2005) - novelette by Alastair Reynolds
• Angel of Light - (2005) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
• Ikiryoh - (2005) - shortstory by Liz Williams
• I, Robot - (2005) - novelette by Cory Doctorow

A banner year for bold, provocative, brilliantly inventive science fiction has produced some of the most enthrallingly original short sf since the genre's conception. In their twelfth remarkable collection of the very best of the last twelve months, award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer present amazing stories of galaxy-shaking events, alien contact, utopian science, and technology run amok: tales that celebrate the continually evolving literary artistry of some of the form's finest, most respected practitioners... while showcasing the magnificent talents of the science fiction superstars of the near future.

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments - essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
• Introduction - essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
• Nano Comes to Clifford Falls - (2006) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? - (2006) - shortstory by Terry Bisson
• When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth - (2006) - novelette by Cory Doctorow
• Just Do It! - (2006) - shortstory by Heather Lindsley
• Counterfactual - (2006) - novelette by Gardner Dozois
• Moon Does Run - (2006) - shortstory by Edd Vick
• Home Movies - (2006) - novelette by Mary Rosenblum
• Chu and the Nants - (2006) - shortstory by Rudy Rucker
• Silence in Florence - (2006) - shortstory by Ian Creasey
• The Women of Our Occupation - (2006) - shortstory by Kameron Hurley
• This Is the Ice Age - (2006) - shortstory by Claude Lalumière
• Speak, Geek - (2006) - shortstory by Eileen Gunn
• Expedition, with Recipes - (2006) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
• The Age of Ice - (2006) - shortstory by Liz Williams
• Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth - (2006) - novella by Michael F. Flynn
• Applied Mathematical Theology - (2006) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
• Quill - (2006) - novelette by Carol Emshwiller
• Tiger, Burning - (2006) - novelette by Alastair Reynolds
• Dead Men Walking - (2006) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
• Damascus - (2006) - novelette by Daryl Gregory
• Tin Marsh - (2006) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
• Taking Good Care of Myself - (2006) - shortstory by Ian R. MacLeod
• The Lowland Expedition - (2006) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
• Heisenberg Elementary - (2006) - shortstory by Wil McCarthy
• Rwanda - (2006) - shortstory by Robert Reed
• Preemption - (2006) - shortstory by Charlie Rosenkrantz

The thirteenth annual collection of the previous year's finest short-form sf is at hand. Once again, award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer have gathered together a stunning array of science fiction that spans a veritable universe of astonishing visions and bold ideas. Hitherto unexplored galaxies of the mind are courageously traversed by some of the most exciting new talents in the field--while well-established masters rocket to remarkable new heights of artistry and originality. The stars are closer and more breathtaking than ever before--and a miraculous future now rests in your hands--within the pages of Year's Best SF 13.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (2008) - essay by Kathryn Cramer and David G. Hartwell
• Baby Doll - (2007) - novelette by Johanna Sinisalo (trans. of Baby Doll 2002)
• Aristotle OS - (2007) - short story by Tony Ballantyne
• The Last American - (2007) - short story by John Kessel
• Memorare - (2007) - novella by Gene Wolfe
• Plotters and Shooters - (2007) - novelette by Kage Baker
• Repeating the Past - (2007) - short story by Peter Watts
• No More Stories - (2007) - short story by Stephen Baxter
• They Came from the Future - (2007) - poem by Robyn Hitchcock
• The Tomb Wife - (2007) - short story by Gwyneth Jones
• An Evening's Honest Peril - (2007) - novelette by Marc Laidlaw
• End Game - (2007) - short story by Nancy Kress
• Induction - (2007) - short story by Greg Egan
• A Blue and Cloudless Sky - (2007) - novelette by Bernhard Ribbeck (trans. of En blå og skyfri himmel 1996)
• Reasons not to Publish - (2007) - short story by Gregory Benford
• Objective Impermeability in a Closed System - (2007) - short story by William Shunn
• Always - (2007) - short story by Karen Joy Fowler
• Who's Afraid of Wolf 359? - (2007) - short story by Ken MacLeod
• Artifice and Intelligence - (2007) - short story by Tim Pratt
• Pirates of the Somali Coast - (2007) - short story by Terry Bisson
• Sanjeev and Robotwallah - (2007) - short story by Ian McDonald
• Third Person - (2007) - short story by Tony Ballantyne
• The Bridge - (2007) - novelette by Kathleen Ann Goonan
• As You Know, Bob - (2007) - short story by John G. Hemry
• The Lustration - (2007) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• How Music Begins - (2007) - novelette by James Van Pelt

Last year's best short-form SF--selected by acclaimed, award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer--offers stunning new extrapolations on what awaits humankind beyond the next dawn. The art of the story is explored boldly and provocatively in this powerful new collection of Year's Best speculative fiction.

Table of Contents:

• Arkfall - (2008) - novella by Carolyn Ives Gilman
• Orange - (2008) - short story by Neil Gaiman
• Memory Dog - (2008) - novelette by Kathleen Ann Goonan
• Pump Six - (2008) - novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Boojum - (2008) - short story by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
• Exhalation - (2008) - short story by Ted Chiang
• Traitor - (2008) - short story by M. Rickert
• The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away - (2008) - novelette by Cory Doctorow
• Oblivion: A Journey - (2008) - short story by Vandana Singh
• The House Left Empty - (2008) - short story by Robert Reed
• The Scarecrow's Boy - (2008) - short story by Michael Swanwick
• N-Words - (2008) - short story by Ted Kosmatka
• Fury - (2008) - novelette by Alastair Reynolds
• Cheats - (2008) - novelette by Ann Halam
• The Ships Like Clouds, Risen by Their Rain - (2008) - novelette by Jason Sanford
• The Egg Man - (2008) - novelette by Mary Rosenblum
• Glass - (2008) - shortfiction by Daryl Gregory
• Fixing Hanover - (2008) - novelette by Jeff VanderMeer
• Message Found in a Gravity Wave - (2008) - short story by Rudy Rucker
• Mitigation - (2008) - novelette by Tobias S. Buckell and Karl Schroeder
• Spiders - (2008) - short story by Sue Burke

An annual celebration of the finest short form science fiction of the past year, editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer's Year's Best science fiction anthologies are widely acclaimed and eagerly awaited--and Year's Best SF 15 lives up magnificently to its name! Featuring thrilling new tales by such speculative fiction luminaries as Stephen Baxter, Gene Wolfe, Nancy Kress, Geoff Ryman, Bruce Sterling, and a host of others, Year's Best SF 15 opens the door into a universe of wonders.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
• Infinities - (2008) - novelette by Vandana Singh
• This Peaceable Land; or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe - (2009) - novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
• The Unstrung Zither - (2009) - novelette by Yoon Ha Lee
• Black Swan - (2009) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• Exegesis - (2009) - short story by Nancy Kress
• Erosion - (2009) - short story by Ian Creasey
• Collision - (2009) - short story by Gwyneth Jones
• Donovan Sent Us - (2009) - short story by Gene Wolfe
• The Calculus Plague - (2009) - short story by Marissa Lingen
• The Island - (2009) - novelette by Peter Watts
• One of Our Bastards is Missing - (2009) - novelette by Paul Cornell
• Lady of the White-Spired City - (2009) - short story by Sarah L. Edwards
• The Highway Code - (2009) - novelette by Brian Stableford
• On the Destruction of Copenhagen by the War-Machines of the Merfolk - (2009) - short story by Peter M. Ball
• The Fixation - (2009) - short story by Alastair Reynolds
• In Their Garden - (2009) - short story by Brenda Cooper
• Blocked - (2009) - short story by Geoff Ryman
• The Last Apostle - (2009) - short story by Michael Cassutt
• Another Life - (2009) - novelette by Charles Oberndorf
• The Consciousness Problem - (2009) - short story by Mary Robinette Kowal
• Tempest 43 - (2009) - novelette by Stephen Baxter
• Bespoke - (2009) - short story by Genevieve Valentine
• Attitude Adjustment - (2009) - short story by Eric James Stone
• Edison's Frankenstein - (2009) - novelette by Chris Roberson

A dazzling new collection of the finest short form science fiction from the previous year, compiled once again by World Fantasy and Hugo Award-winning editors by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, Year's Best SF 16 features some of the brightest stars of the genre--including Gregory Benford, Cory Doctrow, Joe Haldeman, and Michael Swanwick. From space travel to time travel to journeys through the mind, brilliant and original speculative fiction is alive and well and magnificently celebrated in this splendid compendium of plausible wonders.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2011) - essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
• Sleeping Dogs - (2010) - short story by Joe Haldeman
• Castoff World - (2010) - shortfiction by Kay Kenyon
• Petopia - (2010) - short story by Benjamin Crowell
• Futures in the Memories Market - (2010) - short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• A Preliminary Assessment of the Drake Equation, Being an Excerpt from the Memoirs of Star Captain Y.-T. Lee - (2010) - shortfiction by Vernor Vinge
• About It - (2010) - short story by Terry Bisson
• Somadeva: A Sky River Sutra - (2010) - short story by Vandana Singh
• Under the Moons of Venus - (2010) - short story by Damien Broderick
• All the Love in the World - (2010) - short story by Cat Sparks
• At Budokan - (2010) - novelette by Alastair Reynolds
• Graffiti in the Library of Babel - (2010) - short story by David Langford
• Steadfast Castle - (2010) - short story by Michael Swanwick
• How to Become a Mars Overlord - (2010) - short story by Catherynne M. Valente
• To Hie from Far Cilenia - (2008) - novella by Karl Schroeder
• The Hebras and the Demons and the Damned - (2010) - short story by Brenda Cooper
• Penumbra - (2010) - short story by Gregory Benford
• The Good Hand - (2010) - novelette by Robert Reed
• The Cassandra Project - (2010) - short story by Jack McDevitt
• Jackie's-Boy - (2010) - novella by Steven Popkes
• Eight Miles - (2010) - novelette by Sean McMullen
• Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance: The Parke Family Scrapbook Number IV - (2010) - novella by Paul Park

The Year's Best SF 17 is a showcase of the best short form science fiction of 2011, selected by World Fantasy Award winners David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, two of the most respected editors in the field of speculative fiction. Like the previous sixteen volumes of the series that has been called "the finest modern science fiction writing," The Year's Best SF 17 features stories from some of the brightest lights in sf--including Gregory Benford (Beyond Human), Nancy Kress (Beggars in Spain), James Morrow (The Philosopher's Apprentice), Michael Swanwick (The Dragons of Babel) and Neil Gaiman (American Gods) --as well as electrifying short stories from exciting newcomers.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
• The Best Science Fiction of the Year Three - (2011) - shortfiction by Ken MacLeod
• Dolly - (2011) - short story by Elizabeth Bear
• Altogether Elsewhere, Vast Herds of Reindeer - (2011) - short story by Ken Liu
• Tethered - (2011) - shortfiction by Mercurio D. Rivera
• Wahala - (2011) - novelette by Nnedi Okorafor
• Laika's Ghost - (2010) - novelette by Karl Schroeder
• Ragnarok - (2011) - poem by Paul Park
• Six Months, Three Days - (2011) - novelette by Charlie Jane Anders
• "And Weep Like Alexander" - (2011) - shortfiction by Neil Gaiman
• The Middle of Somewhere - (2011) - novelette by Judith Moffett
• Mercies - (2010) - novelette by Gregory Benford
• The Education of Junior Number 12 - (2011) - shortfiction by Madeline Ashby
• Our Candidate - (2011) - short story by Robert Reed
• Thick Water - (2011) - shortfiction by Karen Heuler
• The War Artist - (2011) - short story by Tony Ballantyne
• The Master of the Aviary - (2011) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• Home Sweet Bi'ome - (2011) - novelette by Pat MacEwen
• For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I'll Not Be Back Again - (2011) - short story by Michael Swanwick
• The Ki-anna - (2010) - novelette by Gwyneth Jones
• Eliot Wrote - (2011) - short story by Nancy Kress
• The Nearest Thing - (2011) - novelette by Genevieve Valentine
• A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel - (2011) - short story by Yoon Ha Lee
• The Ice Owl - (2011) - novella by Carolyn Ives Gilman

Once again, the finest SF short stories of the year have been collected in a single volume.

With Year's Best SF 18, acclaimed, award-winning editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell demonstrates the amazing depth and power of contemporary speculative fiction, showcasing astonishing short stories from some of science fiction's most respected names as well as exciting new writers to watch. In this anthology, prepare to travel light years from the ordinary into a tomorrow at once breathtaking, frightening, and possible with some of the greatest tales of wonder published in 2012.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by David G. Hartwell
• Old Paint - (2012) - novelette by Megan Lindholm
• The Ghosts of Christmas - (2012) - novelette by Paul Cornell
• Prayer - (2012) - short story by Robert Reed
• The Battle of Candle Arc - (2012) - novelette by Yoon Ha Lee
• Dormanna - (2012) - short story by Gene Wolfe
• Holmes Sherlock: A Hwarhath Mystery - (2012) - short story by Eleanor Arnason
• Electrica - (2012) - novelette by Sean McMullen
• Perfect Day - (2012) - short story by C. S. Friedman
• Swift as a Dream and Fleeting as a Sigh - (2012) - short story by John Barnes
• Liberty's Daughter - (2012) - novelette by Naomi Kritzer
• Weep for Day - (2012) - novelette by Indrapramit Das
• In Plain Sight - (2012) - short story by Pat Cadigan
• Application - (2012) - short story by Lewis Shiner
• A Love Supreme - (2012) - short story by Kathleen Ann Goonan
• Close Encounters - (2012) - novelette by Andy Duncan
• Two Sisters in Exile - (2012) - short story by Aliette de Bodard
• The Waves - (2012) - novelette by Ken Liu
• The North Revena Ladies Literary Society - (2012) - short story by Catherine H. Shaffer
• Antarctica Starts Here - (2012) - short story by Paul J. McAuley
• Bricks, Sticks, Straw - (2012) - short story by Gwyneth Jones
• The Sigma Structure Symphony - (2012) - novelette by Gregory Benford
• Glass Future - (2012) - short story by Deborah Walker
• If Only... - (2012) - short story by Tony Ballantyne
• The Woman Who Shook the World Tree - short story by Michael Swanwick
• Nahiku West - (2012) - novelette by Linda Nagata
• Houseflies - (2012) - short story by Joe Pitkin
• Branches on My Back, Sparrows in My Ear - (2012) - short story by Nikki J. North
• The Peak of Eternal Light - (2012) - novelette by Bruce Sterling