The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection

by Dozois, Gardner

• ISBN13: 9781250064417
• ISBN10: 1250064414
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-07-07
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Summary

In the new millennium, what secrets lay 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 long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Damien Broderick, Elizabeth Bear, Paul McAuley and John Barnes. And with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

Author Biography

GARDNER DOZOIS has been working in the science fiction field for more than thirty years. For twenty years he was the editor of Asimov's Science Fiction, during which he received the Hugo Award for Best Editor fifteen times.

Table of Contents

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Acknowledgements
The Fifth Dragon, Ian McDonald
The Rider, Jérôme Cigut
The Days of the War, as Red as Blood, as Dark as Bile, Aliette de Bodard
The Burial of Sir John Mawe at Cassini, Chaz Brenchley
The Regular, Ken Liu
The Woman from the Ocean, Karl Bunker
Shooting the Apocalypse, Paolo Bachigalupi
Weather, Susan Palwick
The Hand Is Quicker, Elizabeth Bear
The Man Who Sold the Moon, Cory Doctorow
Vladimir Chong Chooses To Die, Lavie Tidhar
Beside the Damned River, D.J. Cockburn
The Colonel, Peter Watts
Entanglement, Vandana Singh
White Curtain, Pavel Amnuel
Slipping, Lauren Beukes
Passage of Earth, Michael Swanwick
Amicae Aeternum, Ellen Klages
In Babelsberg, Alastair Reynolds
Sadness, Timons Esaias
West to East, Jay Lake
Grand Jeté (The Great Leap), Rachel Swirsky
Covenent, Elizabeth Bear
Jubilee, Karl Schroeder
Los Pirates del Mar de Plastico (Pirates of the Plastic Ocean), Paul Graham Raven
Red Light, and Rain, Gareth L. Powell
Coma Kings, Jessica Barber
The Prodigal Son, Allen M. Steele
God Decay, Rich Larson
Blood Wedding, Robert Reed
The Long Haul, from the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009, Ken Liu
Shadow Flock, Greg Egan
Thing and Sick, Adam Roberts
Communion, Mary Anne Mohanraj
Someday, James Patrick Kelly
Yesterday's Kin, Nancy Kress
Honorable Mentions: 2014