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Year's best SF 6 / edited by David G. Hartwell.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Years Best SF 6
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction, American.
- Short stories.
- Genre:
- Science fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 500 pages ; 18 cm
- Other Title:
- Year's best SF six
- Year's best science fiction 6
- Year's best science fiction six
- Place of Publication:
- New York : EOS/HarperCollins, 2001.
- Summary:
- An acclaimed editor and anthologist presents the sixth annual collection of the year's most impressive works of science fiction by writers such as Brian W. Aldiss, David Brin, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Silverberg, and many more.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Reef / Paul J. McAuley
- Reality check / David Brin
- The millennium express / Robert Silverberg
- Patient zero / Tananarive Due
- The oort crowd / Ken MacLeod
- The thing about Benny / M. Shayne Bell
- The last supper / Brian Stableford
- Tuberculosis bacteria join UN / Joan Slonczewski
- Our mortal span / Howard Waldrop
- Different kinds of darkness / David Langford
- New ice age, or just cold feet? / Norman Spinrad
- The devotee / Stephen Dedman
- The marriage of sky and sea / Chris Beckett
- In the days of the comet / John M. Ford
- The birthday of the world / Ursula K. Le Guin
- Oracle / Greg Egan
- To cuddle Amy / Nancy Kress
- Steppenpferd / Brian W. Aldiss
- Sheena 5 / Stephen Baxter
- The fire eggs / Darrell Schweitzer
- The new horla / Robert Sheckley
- Madame Bovary, c'est moi / Dan Simmons
- Grandma's jumpman / Robert Reed
- Bordeaux mixture / Charles Dexter Ward
- The dryad's wedding / Robert Charles Wilson
- Built upon the sands of time / Michael F. Flynn
- Seventy-two letters / Ted Chiang.
- Notes:
- Jacket art by Paul Youll -- back flap.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy has dustjacket.
- ISBN:
- 0061020559
- 9780061020551
- OCLC:
- 47143674
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