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The year's best science fiction. Twenty-third annual collection / edited by Gardner Dozois.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Year's best SF 23nd
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction, American.
- Short stories, American.
- Science fiction, English.
- 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:
- l, 810 pages ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Year's best science fiction. 23rd annual collection
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Griffin ; [Place of publication not identified] : [Science Fiction Book Club], [2006].
- Summary:
- Widely regarded as the one essential book for every science fiction fan, this award-winning anthology continues to uphold its standard of excellence with more than two dozen stories representing the previous year's best sci fi writing.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Summation: 2005
- The little goddess / Ian McDonald
- The calorie man / Paolo Bacigalupi
- Beyond the Aquila rift / Alastair Reynolds
- Second person, present tense / Daryl Gregory
- The Canadian who came almost all the way back from the stars / Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold
- Triceratops summer / Michael Swanwick
- Camouflage / Robert Reed
- A case of consilience / Ken MacLeod
- The Blemmye's strategem / Bruce Sterling
- Amba / William Sanders
- Search engine / Mary Rosenblum
- Piccadilly Circus / Chris Beckett
- In the quake zone / David Gerrold
- La malcontenta / Liz Williams
- The children of time / Stephen Baxter
- Little faces / Vonda N. McIntyre
- Comber / Gene Wolfe
- Audubon in Atlantis / Harry Turtledove
- Deus ex homine / Hannu Rajaniemi
- The great Caruso / Steven Popkes
- Softly spoke the gabbled/ Neal Asher
- Zima blue / Alastair Reynolds
- Planet of the Amazon women / David Moles
- The clockwork atom bomb / Dominic Green
- Gold mountain / Chris Roberson
- The fulcrum / Gwyneth Jones
- Mayfly / Peter Watts and Derryl Murphy
- Two dreams on trains / Elizabeth Bear
- Angel of light / Joe Haldeman
- Burn / James Patrick Kelly
- Honorable mentions: 2005.
- Notes:
- Anthology of science fiction short stories originally published in 2005.
- "Jacket design by Edwin Tse. Jacket illustration © Stephan Martiniere."--Bookjacket.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [799]-810).
- Co-publisher statement and date of publication taken from Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base.
- Science Fiction Book Club number on back cover of book jacket: 1217189.
- 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, 88337.
- ISBN:
- 9780312353353
- 0312353359
- OCLC:
- 949778581
- Publisher Number:
- 1217189 Science Fiction Book Club
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