YRS BEST SF 6 MM

by HARTWELL DAVID G

• ISBN13: 9780061020551
• ISBN10: 0061020559
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Get Ready To Expand Your Mind...Acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell is back with the sixth annual collection of the year's most impressive, thought-provoking, and just plain great science fiction.Year's Best SF 6 includes contributions from the greatest stars of the field as well as remarkable newcomers -- galaxies and into unexplored territory deep within your own soul.Here are stories from: Brian W. Aldiss Stephen Baxter David Brin Nancy Kress Ursula K. Le Guin Robert Silverbergand many more...

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	viii
Introduction	ix
Reef	1	(34)
Paul J. McAuley
Reality Check	35	(4)
David Brin
The Millennium Express	39	(22)
Robert Silverberg
Patient Zero	61	(20)
Tananarive Due
The Oort Crowd	81	(4)
Ken MacLeod
The Thing About Benny	85	(10)
M. Shayne Bell
The Last Supper	95	(18)
Brian Stableford
Tuberculosis Bacteria Join UN	113	(4)
Joan Slonczewski
Our Mortal Span	117	(13)
Howard Waldrop
Different Kinds of Darkness	130	(13)
David Langford
New Ice Age, or Just Cold Feet?	143	(4)
Norman Spinrad
The Devotee	147	(42)
Stephen Dedman
The Marriage of Sky and Sea	189	(21)
Chris Beckett
In the Days of the Comet	210	(4)
John M. Ford
The Birthday of the World	214	(34)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Oracle	248	(55)
Greg Egan
To Cuddle Amy	303	(5)
Nancy Kress
Steppenpferd	308	(14)
Brian W. Aldiss
Sheena 5	322	(21)
Stephen Baxter
The Fire Eggs	343	(15)
Darrell Schweitzer
The New Horla	358	(14)
Robert Sheckley
Madame Bovary, C' est Moi	372	(5)
Dan Simmons
Grandma's Jumpman	377	(21)
Robert Reed
Bordeaux Mixture	398	(4)
Charles Dexter Ward
The Dryad's Wedding	402	(25)
Robert Charles Wilson
Built Upon the Sands of Time	427	(18)
Michael F. Flynn
Seventy-Two Letters	445
Ted Chiang