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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection
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The twenty-first century has so far proven to be exciting and wondrous and filled with challenges we had never dreamed. New possibilities previously unimagined appear almost daily . . . and science fiction stories continue to explore those possibilities with delightful results.
Collected in this anthology are such compelling stories as:
- "On K2 with Kanakaredes" by Dan Simmons. A relentlessly paced and absorbing tale set in the near future about three mountain climbers who must scale the face of K2 with some very odd company.
- "The Human Front" by Ken MacLeod. In this compassionate coming-of-age tale the details of life are just a bit off from things as we know them-and nothing is as it appears to be.
- "Glacial" by Alastair Reynolds. A fascinating discovery on a distant planet leads to mass death and a wrenching mystery as spellbinding as anything in recent short fiction.
The twenty-six stories in this collection imaginatively takes 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 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.
Table of Contents:
- Ian R. MacLeod: "New Light On the Drake Equation"
- Michael Cassutt: "More Adventures On Other Planets"
- Dan Simmons: "On K2 With Kanakaredes"
- William Sanders: "When This World Is All On Fire"
- Nancy Kress: "Computer Virus"
- Geoff Ryman: "Have Not Have"
- Charles Stross: "Lobsters"
- Michael Swanwick: "The Dog Said Bow-Wow"
- Andy Duncan: "The Chief Designer"
- Paul Di Filippo: "Neutrino Drag"
- Alastair Reynolds: "Glacial"
- Allen M. Steele: "The Days Between"
- Howard Waldrop and Leigh Kennedy: "One-Horse Town"
- Eleanor Arnason: "Moby Quilt"
- Robert Reed: "Raven Dream"
- James Patrick Kelly: "Undone"
- Carolyn Ives Gilman: "The Real Thing"
- Maureen F. McHugh: "Interview: On Any Given Day"
- Ian R. MacLeod: "Isabel Of the Fall"
- Jim Grimsley: "Into Greenwood"
- Michael Blumlein: "Know How, Can Do"
- Simon Ings: "Russian Vine"
- Paul McAuley: "The Two Dicks"
- Brenda W. Clough: "May Be Some Time"
- Chris Beckett: "Marcher"
- Ken MacLeod: "The Human Front"
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