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The year's best science fiction. Twenty-second 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.
- Genre:
- Short stories, American.
- Short stories, English.
- Science fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- lii, 822 pages ; 22 cm
- Manufacture:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [Science Fiction Book Club], [2005]
- Other Title:
- Year's best science fiction. 22nd annual collection
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Griffin, [2005].
- Summary:
- Widely regarded as the one essential book for every science fiction fan, "The Year's Best Science Fiction "(Winner of the 2004 Locus Award for Best Anthology) continues to uphold its standard of excellence with more than two dozen stories representing the previous year's best SF writing. The stories in this collection imaginatively take readers far across the universe, into the very core of their beings, to the realm of the Gods, and to the moment just after now. Included are the works of masters of the form and the bright new talents of tomorrow. This book is a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Summation: 2004
- Inappropriate behavior / Pat Murphy
- Start the clock / Benjamin Rosenbaum
- The third party / David Moles
- The voluntary state / Christopher Rowe
- Shiva in shadow / Nancy Kress
- The people of sand and slag / Paolo Bacigalupi
- The clapping hands of God / Michael F. Flynn
- Tourism / M. John Harrison
- Scout's honor / Terry Bisson
- Men are trouble / James Patrick Kelly
- Mother Aegypt / Kage Baker
- Synthetic serendipity / Vernor Vinge
- Skin deep / Mary Rosenblum
- Delhi / Vandana Singh
- The tribes of Bela / Albert E. Cowdrey
- Sitka / William Sanders
- Leviathan wept / Daniel Abraham
- The defenders / Colin P. Davies
- Mayflower II / Stephen Baxter
- Riding the white bull / Caitlin R. Kiernan
- Falling star / Brendan DuBois
- The dragons of Summer Gulch / Robert Reed
- The ocean of the blind / James L. Cambias
- The garden : a Hwarhath science fictional romance / Eleanor Arnason
- Footvote / Peter F. Hamilton
- Sisyphus and the stranger / Paul Di Filippo
- Ten sigmas / Paul Melko
- Investments / Walter Jon Williams
- Honorable mentions: 2004.
- Notes:
- Anthology of science fiction short stories originally published in 2004.
- "Jacket illustration by Stephan Martiniere."--Bookjacket.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [811]-822).
- Printer statement and date of printing taken from Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base.
- 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, 88128.
- ISBN:
- 0312336594
- 9780312336592
- OCLC:
- 949742237
- Publisher Number:
- 1188574 Science Fiction Book Club
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