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The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction (aka The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction - aka The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection Author:Gardner Dozois (Editor) Anthology collection of the best science fiction novellas and short stories published in 1986. The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow blurring the line between life and art. This collection explores ideas of a different world. Now, in The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction, the very... more » best SF authors explore ideas of a new world.
Contents:
Introduction: Summation: 1986 • essay by Gardner Dozois
R & R / Lucius Shepard
Hatrack River [The Alvin Maker Saga] / Orson Scott Card
Strangers on Paradise / Damon Knight
Pretty Boy Crossover / Pat Cadigan
Against Babylon / Robert Silverberg
Fiddling for Waterbuffaloes / S. P. Somtow [as by Somtow Sucharitkul]
Into Gold / Tanith Lee
Sea Change / Scott Baker
Covenant of Souls / Michael Swanwick
The Pure Product / John Kessel
Grave Angels / Richard Kearns
Tangents / Greg Bear
The Beautiful and the Sublime / Bruce Sterling
Tattoos / Jack Dann
Night Moves / Tim Powers
The Prisoner of Chillon / James Patrick Kelly
Chance / Connie Willis
And so to Bed / Harry Turtledove
Fair Game / Howard Waldrop
Video Star / Walter Jon Williams
Sallie C. / Neal Barrett, Jr.
Jeff Beck / Lewis Shiner
Surviving / Judith Moffett
Down and Out in the Year 2000 / Kim Stanley Robinson
Snake-Eyes / Tom Maddox
The Gate of Ghosts / Karen Joy Fowler
The Winter Market / William Gibson
Honorable Mentions: 1986 • essay by Gardner Dozois
Also published as: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection (1987) UK« less