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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection (aka The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 16)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Twentieth Annual Collection - aka The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 16 Author:Gardner Dozois (Editor) What secrets lie beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has become a porthole into the realities of tomorrow., blurring the line between life and art. imaginatively taking readers far across the universe, into the very core of their beings, to th... more »e realm of the Gods, and to the moment just after now. The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection (2003) continues to uphold its standard of excellence with stories representing the previous year's best SF writing.
Contents:
Summation: 2002 • essay by Gardner Dozois
Breathmoss / Ian R. MacLeod
The Most Famous Little Girl in the World / Nancy Kress
The Passenger [The Quiet War] / Paul J. McAuley
The Political Officer / Charles Coleman Finlay
Lambing Season / Molly Gloss
Coelacanths / Robert Reed
Presence / Maureen F. McHugh
Halo [Macx Family • 4] / Charles Stross
In Paradise / Bruce Sterling
The Old Cosmonaut and the Construction Worker Dream of Mars / Ian McDonald
Stories for Men / John Kessel
To Become a Warrior / Chris Beckett
The Clear Blue Seas of Luna / Gregory Benford
V.A.O. / Geoff Ryman
Winters Are Hard / Steven Popkes
At the Money / Richard Wadholm
Agent Provocateur / Alexander C. Irvine
Singleton / Greg Egan
Slow Life / Michael Swanwick
A Flock of Birds / James Van Pelt
The Potter of Bones / Eleanor Arnason
The Whisper of Disks / John Meaney
The Hotel at Harlan's Landing [Company] / Kage Baker
The Millennium Party / Walter Jon Williams
Turquoise Days [Revelation Space] / Alastair Reynolds
Honorable Mentions: 2002 • essay by Gardner Dozois
Cover by Dominic Harman.
Also published as: The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 16 (2003) UK« less
Peter E. (pensign) - reviewed The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection (aka The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 16) on + 125 more book reviews
Very good compilation, some very cutting-edgem stuff.