Year's Best SF 14 Author:David G. Hartwell (Editor), Kathryn Cramer (Editor) The short story is one of the most vibrant and exciting areas in science fiction today. It is where the hot new authors emerge and where the beloved giants of the field continue to publish. Now, building on the success of the first thirteen volumes, Eos will once again present a collection of the best stories of 2008 in mass market. — Here, selec... more »ted and compiled by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, two of the most respected editors in the field, are stories with visions of tomorrow and yesterday, of the strange and the familiar, of the unknown and the unknowable. With stories from an all-star team of science fiction authors, "The Year's Best Sf 14" is an indispensable guide for every science fiction fan.
Arkfall / Carolyn Ives Gilman --
Orange / Neil Gaiman --
Memory dog / Kathleen Ann Goonan --
Pump six / Paolo Bacigalupi --
Boojum / Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette --
Exhalation / Ted Chiang --
Traitor / M. Rickert --
The things that make me weak and strange get engineered away / Cory Doctorow --
Oblivion : a journey / Vandana Singh --
The house left empty / Robert Reed --
The scarecrow's boy / Michael Swanwick --
N-words / Ted Kosmatka --
Fury / Alastair Reynolds --
Cheats / Ann Halam --
The ships like clouds, risen by their rain / Jason Sanford --
The egg man / Mary Rosenblum --
Glass / Daryl Gregory --
Fixing Hanover / Jeff VanderMeer --
Message found in a gravity wave / Rudy Rucker --
Mitigation / Karl Schroeder and Tobias S. Buckell --