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The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 17 (aka The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection)
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 17 - aka The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection Author:Gardner Dozois (Editor) Widely regarded as the one essential book for every science fiction fan, The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 17 (2004) continues to uphold its standard of excellence with stories representing the previous year's best SF writing. The stories in this anthology imaginatively take readers far across the universe, into the very core ... more »of their beings, to the realm of the Gods, and to the moment just after now. Included are the works of masters of the form and the bright new talents of tomorrow.
Contents:
Summation: 2003 • essay by Gardner Dozois
Off on a Starship / William Barton
It's All True / John Kessel
Rogue Farm / Charles Stross
The Ice / Steven Popkes
EJ-ES / Nancy Kress
The Bellman [Anna-Louise Bach] / John Varley
The Bear's Baby / Judith Moffett
Calling Your Name / Howard Waldrop
June Sixteenth at Anna's / Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The Green Leopard Plague / Walter Jon Williams
The Fluted Girl / Paolo Bacigalupi
Dead Worlds / Jack Skillingstead
King Dragon / Michael Swanwick
Singletons in Love / Paul Melko
Anomalous Structures of My Dreams / M. Shayne Bell
The Cookie Monster / Vernor Vinge
Joe Steele / Harry Turtledove
Birth Days / Geoff Ryman
Awake in the Night / John C. Wright
The Long Way Home / James Van Pelt
The Eyes of America / Geoffrey A. Landis
Welcome to Olympus, Mr. Hearst [Company] / Kage Baker
Night of Time [The Great Ship Universe] / Robert Reed
Strong Medicine / William Shunn
Send Me a Mentagram / Dominic Green
And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon / Paul Di Filippo
Flashmen / Terry Dowling
Dragonhead / Nicholas A. DiChario
Dear Abbey / Terry Bisson
Honorable Mentions: 2003 • essay by Gardner Dozois
Cover art by: Joe Roberts.
Also published as: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection (2004) USA« less