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

by Dozois, Gardner

• ISBN13: 9780312336608
• ISBN10: 0312336608
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-07-01
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Summary

Widely regarded as the one essential book for every science fiction fan,The Year's Best Science Fiction(Winner of the 2004 Locus Award for Best Anthology) continues to uphold its standard of excellence with more than two dozen stories representing the previous year's best SF writing. The stories in this collection imaginatively take readers far across the universe, into the very core of their beings, to the realm of the Gods, and to the moment just after now. Included are the works of masters of the form and the bright new talents of tomorrow. This book is a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

Author Biography

Gardner Dozois has won the Hugo Award for Best Editor twelve times. The editor of Asimov's SF magazine since 1986, he lives in Philadelphia, Pensylvania.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	ix
SUMMATION: 2004	xi
INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR
Pat Murphy	1	(21)
START THE CLOCK
Benjamin Rosenbaum	22	(12)
THE THIRD PARTY
David Moles	34	(24)
THE VOLUNTARY STATE
Christopher Rowe	58	(26)
SHIVA IN SHADOW
Nancy Kress	84	(38)
THE PEOPLE OF SAND AND SLAG
Paolo Bacigalupi	122	(15)
THE CLAPPING HANDS OF GOD
Michael F. Flynn	137	(33)
TOURISM
M. John Harrison	170	(12)
SCOUT'S HONOR
Terry Bisson	182	(14)
MEN ARE TROUBLE
James Patrick Kelly	196	(31)
MOTHER AEGYPT
Kage Baker	227	(52)
SYNTHETIC SERENDIPITY
Vernor Vinge	279	(14)
SKIN DEEP
Mary Rosenblum	293	(18)
DELHI
Vandana Singh	311	(13)
THE TRIBES OF BELA
Albert E. Cowdrey	324	(48)
SITKA
William Sanders	372	(11)
LEVIATHAN WEPT
Daniel Abraham	383	(17)
THE DEFENDERS
Colin P. Davies	400	(4)
MAYFLOWER II
Stephen Baxter	404	(46)
RIDING THE WHITE BULL
Caitlin R. Kiernan	450	(21)
FALLING STAR
Brendan DuBois	471	(13)
THE DRAGONS OF SUMMER GULCH
Robert Reed	484	(21)
THE OCEAN OF THE BLIND
James L. Cambias	505	(16)
THE GARDEN: A HWARHATH SCIENCE FICTIONAL ROMANCE
Eleanor Arnason	521	(31)
FOOTVOTE
Peter F. Hamilton	552	(15)
SISYPHUS AND THE STRANGER
Paul Di Filippo	567	(10)
TEN SIGMAS
Paul Melko	577	(7)
INVESTMENTS
Walter Jon Williams	584	(69)
HONORABLE MENTIONS: 2004	653

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