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The year's best science fiction : third annual collection / edited by Gardner Dozois.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Dozois, Gardner R., editor.
Kidd, Tom, illustrator.
Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
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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