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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection
The Year's Best Science Fiction Twelfth Annual Collection Author:Gardner Dozois (Editor) To read is to journey, and to read science fiction is to venture into a myriad of imaginative and delightful worlds, such has: — -Robert Reed's fabulous galaxy-circling starship and its fascinating inhabitants, "The Remoras" — -The planet Mercury, where there is more than meets the eye in Stephen Baxter's "Cilia-of-Gold"... more »;
-Two very different Hainish worlds--with very different customs--in two knockout novellas by Ursula K. Le Guin
-A Junkyard in Brooklyn that won't stay put in "The Hole in the Hole" by Terry Bisson
In all, this volume presents twenty-three of the finest works of speculative fiction published in the past year, including stories by such diverse and fantastic talents as Michael Bishop; Pat Cadigan; Greg Egan; Eliot Fintushel; Michael F. Flynn; Lisa Goldstein; Joe Haldeman; Katherine Kerr; Nancy Kress; Maureen F. McHugh; Mike Resnick; Mary Rosenblum; Geoff Ryman; William Sanders; Brian Stableford; George Turner; Howard Waldrop; Walter Jon Williams.
Rounded out with Gardner Dozois's insightful overview of the year in science fiction and a long list of recommended reading, this volume is the starting point for dozens of delightful ventures into the marvels of human imagination.