Year's Best SF 16 Author:David G. Hartwell (Editor), Kathryn Cramer (Editor) A dazzling new collection of the finest short form science fiction from the previous year, compiled once again by editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, Year’s Best SF 16 features some of the brightest stars of the genre -- including Gregory Benford, Cory Doctrow, Joe Haldeman, and Michael Swanwick. — From space travel to time travel... more » to journeys through the mind, brilliant and original speculative fiction is alive and well and magnificently celebrated in this splendid compendium of plausible wonders.
Sleeping dogs by Joe Haldeman --
Castoff world by Kay Kenyon --
Petopia by Benjamin Crowell --
Futures in the memories market by Nina Kiriki Hoffman --
A preliminary assessment of the Drake Equation, being an excerpt from the memoirs of Star Captain Y.-T. Lee by Vernor Vinge --
About it by Terry Bisson --
Somadeva : a sky river sutra by Vandana Singh --
Under the moons of Venus by Damien Broderick --
All the love in the world by Cat Sparks --
At Budokan by Alastair Reynolds --
Graffiti in the Library of Babel by David Langford --
Steadfast Castle by Michael Swanwick --
How to become a Mars overlord by Catherynne M. Valente --
To hie from far Cilenia by Karl Schroeder --
The hebras and the demons and the damned by Brenda Cooper --