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Year's best SF 12 / edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Year's best SF 12
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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:
- xii, 484 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Book club edition.
- Other Title:
- Year's best SF twelve
- Year's best science fiction 12
- Year's best science fiction twelve
- Place of Publication:
- New York : EOS, [2007]
- Summary:
- This latest selection of outstanding science fiction stories, originally published in magazines during 2006, showcases the talents of such authors as Gregory Benford, Stephen Baxter, Joe Haldeman, Rudy Rucker, Nancy Kress, Alastair Reynolds, and Michael Swanwick.
- Contents:
- Nano comes to Clifford Falls / Nancy Kress
- Brother, can you spare a dime? / Terry Bisson
- When sysadmins ruled the Earth / Cory Doctorow
- Just do it! / Heather Lindsley
- Counterfactual / Gardner R. Dozois
- Moon does run / Edd Vick
- Home movies / Mary Rosenblum
- Chu and the nants / Rudy Rucker
- Silence in Florence / Ian Creasey
- Women of our occupation / Kameron Hurley
- This is the ice age / Claude Lalumiere
- Speak, geek / Eileen Gunn
- Expedition, with recipes / Joe Haldeman
- Age of ice / Liz Williams
- Dawn, and sunset, and the colours of the Earth / Michael Flynn
- Applied mathematical theology / Gregory Benford
- Quill / Carol Emshwiller
- Tiger, burning / Alastair Reynolds
- Dead men walking / Paul J. McAuley
- Damascus / Daryl Gregory
- Tin marsh / Michael Swanwick
- Taking good care of myself / Ian R. MacLeod
- Lowland expedition / Stephen Baxter
- Heisenberg elementary / Wil McCarthy
- Rwanda / Robert Reed
- Preemption / Charlie Rosenkrantz.
- Notes:
- Jacket art by John Harris.
- 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, 266854
- ISBN:
- 9780061252082
- 0061252085
- 9780739485446
- 073948544X
- OCLC:
- 144218844
- Publisher Number:
- 1236587 Science Fiction Book Club
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