Science Fiction The Best Of 2005 Author:Karen Haber (Editor) Continuing iBooks' popular The Best Of books, edited and designed to appeal to science fiction fans, comes Science Fiction: The Best of 2005. — This collection brings the reader some of the best science fiction prose written in 2005 by some of the genre's greatest writers and selected by two of the field's most respected... more » editors and authors.
14 selections, starting with these charming tales:
* "Triceratops Summer" / Michael Swanwick- in which a glitch at a research facility temporarily transports dinosaurs to the modern world;
* "The Second Coming of Charles Darwin" / Michael Swanwick- in which evangelicals send an AI disguised as a tortoise back in time to destroy all evidence of evolution on the Galápagos Islands;
* "The Blemmye's Stratagem" / Bruce Sterling- which concerns an alien living on Earth at the time of the Crusades;
* "The Fate of Mice" / Susan Palwick- in which an intelligent lab mouse must decide where his loyalties lie;
* "The Little Goddess" / Ian McDonald- in which a girl in a far-future Nepal becomes the latest incarnation of a deity.