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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection (aka The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 22)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection - aka The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 22 Author:Gardner Dozois (Editor) The thirty 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... more » 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, 30 stories:
Acknowledgments
Summation: 2008
Turing's Apple / Stephen Baxter;
From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled / Michael Swanwick;
The Gambler / Paolo Bacigalupi;
Boojum / Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette;
The Six Directions of Space / Alastair Reynolds;
N-Words / Ted Kosmatka;
An Eligible Boy / Ian McDonald;
Shining Armour / Dominic Green;
The Hero / Karl Schroeder;
Evil Robot Monkey / Mary Robinette Kowal;
Five Thrillers / Robert Reed;
The Sky That Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black / Jay Lake;
Incomers / Paul McAuley;
Crystal Nights / Greg Egan;
The Egg Man / Mary Rosenblum;
His Master's Voice / Hannu Rajamiemi;
The Political Prisoner / Charles Coleman Finlay;
Balancing Accounts / James L. Cambias;
Special Economics / Maureen McHugh;
Days of Wonder / Geoff Ryman;
City of the Dead / Paul McAuley;
The Voyage Out / Gywneth Jones;
The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm / Daryl Gregory;
G-Men / Kristine Kathryn Rusch;
The Erdmann Nexus / Nancy Kress;
Old Friends / Garth Nix;
The Ray Gun: A Love Story / James Alan Gardner;
Lester Young and the Jupiter Moon's Blues / Gord Sellar;
Butterfly, Falling at Dawn / Aliette de Bodard;
The Tear / Ian McDonald.
Honorable Mentions: 2008 • (2009) • essay by Gardner Dozois
Cover art: Chad Beatty.
In the UK the series is entitled: The Mammoth Book Of Best New SF, published by Robinson.
In the USA the series is entitled: The Year's Best Science Fiction, published by St Martin's Griffin.« less