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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection (aka The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 24 )
The Year's Best Science Fiction Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection - aka The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 24 Author:Gardner Dozois (Editor) In the heart of the new millennium, worlds beyond our imagination have opened up, blurring the line between life and art. Embracing the challenges and possibilities of cyberspace, genetics, the universe, and beyond, the world of science fiction has become a porthole into the realities of tomorrow. In The Year’s Best Science Fic... more »tion Twenty-eighth Annual Collection our very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world.
The thirty-three stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents
Supplementing the stories are the editor’s insightful summation of the year’s events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination, and the heart.
Contents, 33 stories:
Summation: 2010 • (2011) • essay by Gardner Dozois
A History of Terraforming • (2010) • novella by Robert Reed
The Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String • (2010) • short story by Lavie Tidhar
The Emperor of Mars • [Near Space] • (2010) • short story by Allen Steele [as by Allen M. Steele ]
The Things • (2010) • short story by Peter Watts
The Sultan of the Clouds • (2010) • novella by Geoffrey A. Landis
The Books • (2010) • short story by Kage Baker
Re-Crossing the Styx • (2010) • short story by Ian R. MacLeod (variant of Recrossing the Styx)
And Ministers of Grace • (2010) • novelette by Tad Williams
Mammoths of the Great Plains • (2010) • novella by Eleanor Arnason
Sleeping Dogs • (2010) • short story by Joe Haldeman
Jackie's Boy • (2010) • novella by Steven Popkes (variant of Jackie's-Boy)
Flying in the Face of God • (2010) • short story by Nina Allan
Chicken Little • (2010) • novella by Cory Doctorow
Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain • (2010) • short story by Yoon Ha Lee
Return to Titan • (2010) • novella by Stephen Baxter
Under the Moons of Venus • (2010) • short story by Damien Broderick
Seven Years from Home • (2010) • novelette by Naomi Novik
The Peacock Cloak • (2010) • short story by Chris Beckett
Amaryllis • (2010) • short story by Carrie Vaughn
Seven Cities of Gold • (2010) • novella by David Moles
Again and Again and Again • (2010) • short story by Rachel Swirsky
Elegy for a Young Elk • (2010) • short story by Hannu Rajaniemi
Libertarian Russia • (2010) • short story by Michael Swanwick
The Night Train • (2010) • short story by Lavie Tidhar
My Father's Singularity • (2010) • short story by Brenda Cooper
The Starship Mechanic • (2010) • short story by Jay Lake and Ken Scholes
Sleepover • (2010) • novelette by Alastair Reynolds
The Taste of Night • (2010) • short story by Pat Cadigan
Blind Cat Dance • (2010) • novelette by Alexander Jablokov
The Shipmaker • [Universe of Xuya] • (2010) • short story by Aliette de Bodard
In-Fall • (2010) • short story by Ted Kosmatka
Chimbwi • (2010) • short story by Jim Hawkins
Dead Man's Run • (2010) • novella by Robert Reed
Honorable Mentions: 2010 • (2011) • essay by Gardner Dozois
Variant title: The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 24, Gardner Dozois (Editor)« less