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The year's best science fiction : twenty-first annual collection / edited by Gardner Dozois.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction, American.
- Science fiction, English.
- Short stories, American.
- Short stories, English.
- Science fiction.
- Genre:
- Short stories, American.
- Short stories, English.
- Science fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xlix, 776 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Book club edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2004.
- Summary:
- The twenty-three stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and to the moment just after now.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgement
- Summation, 2003
- Off on a starship / William Barton
- It's all true / John Kessel
- Rogue farm / Charles Stross
- The ice / Steven Popkes
- Ej-es / Nancy Kress
- The bellman / John Varley
- The bear's baby / Judith Moffett
- Calling your name / Howard Waldrop
- June sixteenth at Anna's / Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- The green leopard plague / Walter Jon Williams
- The fluted girl / Paolo Bacigalupi
- Dead worlds / Jack Skillingstead
- King dragon / Michael Swanwick
- Singletons in love / Paul Melko
- Anomalous structures of my dreams / M. Shayne Bell
- The cookie monster / Vernor Vinge
- Joe Steele / Harry Turtledove
- Birth days / Geoff Ryman
- Awake in the night / John C. Wright
- The long way home / James Van Pelt
- The eyes of America / Geoffrey A. Landis
- Welcome to Olympus, Mr. Hearst / Kage Baker
- Night of time / Robert Reed
- Strong medicine / William Shunn
- Send me a mentagram / Dominic Green
- And the dish ran away with the spoon / Paul Di Filippo
- Flashmen / Terry Dowling
- Dragonhead / Nick DiChario
- Dear Abbey / Terry Bisson
- Honorable mentions, 2003.
- Notes:
- Jacket artwork by Jean-Pierre Normand.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy has dustjacket.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 117641
- ISBN:
- 0312324782
- 9780312324780
- OCLC:
- 966535121
- Publisher Number:
- 1164455 Science Fiction Book Club
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