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The year's best science fiction : fourteenth annual collection / Gardner Dozois, editor.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Year's best SF 14th
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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:
- lxiii, 752 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Book club edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- Every year Gardner Dozois manages to select the pieces which turn this anthology into the best reading under the sun. This year's volume is no exception, featuring gems by Gregory Benford, Tony Daniel, John Kessel, Nancy Kress, Maureen F. McHugh, Paul Park, Robert Reed, Robert Silverberg, Bruce Sterling, and many others.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Summation: 1996
- Immersion / Gregory Benford
- The flowers of Aulit Prison / Nancy Kress
- A dry, quiet war / Tony Daniel
- Thirteen phantasms / James P. Blaylock
- Primrose and thorn / Bud Sparhawk
- The miracle of Ivar Avenue / John Kessel
- The last homosexual / Paul Park
- Recording angel / Ian McDonald
- Death do us part / Robert Silverberg
- The spade of reason / Jim Cowan
- The cost to be wise / Maureen F. McHugh
- Bicycle repairman / Bruce Sterling
- The weighing of Ayre / Gregory Feeley
- The longer voyage / Michael Cassutt
- The land of Nod / Mike Resnick
- Red Sonja and Lessingham in dreamland / Gwyneth Jones
- The lady vanishes / Charles Sheffield
- Chrysalis / Robert Reed
- The wind over the world / Steven Utley
- Changes / William Barton
- Counting cats in Zanzibar / Gene Wolfe
- How we got in town and out again / Jonathan Lethem
- Dr. Tilmann's consultant : a scientific romance / Cherry Wilder
- Schrödinger's dog / Damien Broderick
- Foreign devils / Walter Jon Williams
- In the MSOB / Stephen Baxter
- The robot's twilight companion / Tony Daniel
- Honorable mentions: 1996.
- Notes:
- Jacket illustration: Arc of the Ages by Michael Carroll.
- 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, 275071
- ISBN:
- 0312157029 :
- 9780312157029
- 0312157037
- 9780312157036
- 0312157029
- OCLC:
- 37149684
- Publisher Number:
- 780312157029 52995
- 17061 Science Fiction Book Club
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