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The year's best science fiction : third annual collection / edited by Gardner Dozois.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Year's best SF 3rd
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction, American.
- Science fiction, English.
- Genre:
- Science fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 626 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Book club edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bluejay Books, [1986]
- Contents:
- Summation: 1985 The jaguar hunter / Lucius Shepard
- Dogfight / Michael Swanwick and William Gibson
- Fermi and Frost / Frederik Pohl
- Green days in Brunei / Bruce Sterling
- Snow / John Crowley
- The fringe / Orson Scott Card
- The lake was full of artificial things / Karen Joy Fowler
- Sailing to Byzantium / Robert Silverberg
- Solstice / James Patrick Kelly
- Duke Pasquale's ring / Avram Davidson
- More than the sum of his parts / Joe Haldeman
- Out of all them bright stars / Nancy Kress
- Side effects / Walter Jon Williams
- The only neat thing to do / James Tiptree, Jr.
- Dinner in Audoghast / Bruce Sterling
- Under Siege / George R.R. Martin
- Flying saucer rock & roll / Howard Waldrop
- A Spanish lesson / Lucius Shepard
- Roadside rescue / Pat Cadigan
- Paper dragons / James P. Blaylock
- Magazine section / R.A. Lafferty
- The war at home / Lewis Shiner
- Rockabye baby / S.C. Sykes
- Green Mars / Kim Stanley Robinson
- Honorable mentions.
- Notes:
- Jacket art by Tom Kidd.
- Gutter Code "Q37" page 625 (?) shows an early Sept. 1986 printing. Other copies have no gutter code (possibly a later printing?). Other copies have gutter code "R36" cooresponding to a late 1986 printing.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy has dustjacket. No gutter code.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 91991
- OCLC:
- 966517874
- Publisher Number:
- 10323 Science Fiction Book Club
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