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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 TwentyEighth 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 » 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)
ISBN-13: 9780312546335
ISBN-10: 0312546335
Publication Date: 7/5/2011
Pages: 662
Edition: 28
Rating:
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Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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