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Galactic Empires

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Best of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine

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The Year's Best SF Fourteenth Annual Collection [1996]

Fri, 19 Dec 1997 10:46:30 +0200

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth (14th) Annual Collection [1996]

CONTENTS

Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Summation: 1996
IMMERSION Gregory Benford
THE DEAD Michael Swanwick
THE FLOWERS OF AULIT PRISON Nancy Kress
A DRY, QUIET WAR Tony Daniel
THIRTEEN PHANTASMS James P. Blaylock
PRIMROSE AND THORN Bud Sparhawk
THE MIRACLE OF IVAR AVENUE John Kessel
THE LAST HOMOSEXUAL Paul Park
RECORDING ANGEL Ian McDonald
DEATH DO US PART Robert Silverberg
THE SPADE OF REASON Jim Cowan
THE COST TO BE WISE Maureen F. McHugh
BICYCLE REPAIRMAN Bruce Sterling
THE WEIGHING OF AYRE Gregory Feeley
THE LONGER VOYAGE Michael Cassutt
THE LAND OF NOD Mike Resnick
RED SONJA AND LESSINGHAM IN DREAMLAND Gwyneth Jones
THE LADY VANISHES Charles Sheffield
CHRYSALIS Robert Reed
THE WIND OVER THE WORLD Steven Utley
CHANGES William Barton
COUNTING CATS IN ZANZIBAR Gene Wolfe
HOW WE GOT IN TOWN AND OUT AGAIN Jonathan Lethem
DR. TILMANN’S CONSULTANT: A SCIENTIFIC ROMANCE Cherry Wilder
SCHRÖDINGER’S DOG Damien Broderick
FOREIGN DEVILS Walter Jon Williams
IN THE MSOB Stephen Baxter
THE ROBOT’S TWILIGHT COMPANION Tony Daniel
HONORABLE MENTIONS: 1996

The Year's Best SF 12 # 1994

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Contents

Title Page

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Summation: 1994

FORGIVENESS DAY Ursula K. Le Guin

THE REMORAS Robert Reed

NEKROPOLIS Maureen F. McHugh

MARGIN OF ERROR Nancy Kress

CILIA-OF-GOLD Stephen Baxter

GOING AFTER OLD MAN ALABAMA William Sanders

MELODIES OF THE HEART Michael F. Flynn

THE HOLE IN THE HOLE Terry Bisson

PARIS IN JUNE Pat Cadigan

FLOWERING MANDRAKE George Turner

NONE SO BLIND Joe Haldeman

COCOON Greg Egan

SEVEN VIEWS OF OLDUVAI GORGE Mike Resnick

DEAD SPACE FOR THE UNEXPECTED Geoff Ryman

CRI DE COEUR Michael Bishop

THE SAWING BOYS Howard Waldrop

THE MATTER OF SEGGRI Ursula K. Le Guin

YLEM Eliot Fintushel

ASYLUM Katharine Kerr

RED ELVIS Walter Jon Williams

CALIFORNIA DREAMER Mary Rosenblum

SPLIT LIGHT Lisa Goldstein

LES FLEURS DU MAL Brian Stableford

Honorable Mentions: 1994

The Year's Best SF 21 # 2003

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Contents

Summation: 2003

Off on a Starship • William Barton

It’s All True • John Kessel

Rogue Farm • Charles Stross

The Ice • Steven Popkes

Ej-es • Nancy Kress

The Bellman • John Varley

The Bear’s Baby • Judith Moffett

Calling Your Name • Howard Waldrop

June Sixteenth at Anna’s • Kristine Kathryn Rusch

The Green Leopard Plague • Walter Jon Williams

The Fluted Girl • Paolo Bacigalupi

Dead Worlds • Jack Skillingstead

King Dragon • Michael Swanwick

Singletons in Love • Paul Melko

Anomalous Structures of my Dreams • M. Shayne Bell

The Cookie Monster • Vernor Vinge

Joe Steele • Harry Turtledove

Birth Days • Geoff Ryman

Awake in the Night • John C. Wright

The Long Way Home • James Van Pelt

The Eyes of America • Geoffrey A. Landis

Welcome to Olympus, Mr. Hearst • Kage Baker

Night of Time • Robert Reed

Strong Medicine • William Shunn

Send Me a Mentagram • Dominic Green

And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon • Paul Di Filippo

Flashmen • Terry Dowling

Dragonhead • Nick DiChario

Dear Abbey • Terry Bisson

Honorable Mentions: 2003

Acknowledgments

The Year's Best SF 09 # 1991

Sat, 16 Nov 1996 15:41:55 +0200

CONTENTS

Title Page

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Summation: 1991

BEGGARS IN SPAIN Nancy Kress

LIVING WILL Alexander Jablokov

A JUST AND LASTING PEACE Lois Tilton

SKINNER’S ROOM William Gibson

PRAYERS ON THE WIND Walter Jon Williams

BLOOD SISTERS Greg Egan

THE DARK Karen Joy Fowler

MARNIE Ian MacLeod

A TIP ON A TURTLE Robert Silverberg

ÜBERMENSCH! Kim Newman

DISPATCHES FROM THE REVOLUTION Pat Cadigan

PIPES Robert Reed

MATTER’S END Gregory Benford

A HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS Kim Stanley Robinson

GENE WARS Paul J. McAuley

THE GALLERY OF HIS DREAMS Kristine Kathryn Rusch

A WALK IN THE SUN Geoffrey A. Landis

FRAGMENTS OF AN ANALYSIS OF A CASE OF HYSTERIA Ian McDonald

ANGELS IN LOVE Kathe Koja

EYEWALL Rick Shelley

POGROM James Patrick Kelly

THE MOAT Greg Egan

VOICES Jack Dann

FOAM Brian W. Aldiss

JACK Connie Willis

LA MACCHINA Chris Beckett

ONE PERFECT MORNING, WITH JACKALS Mike Resnick

DESERT RAIN Mark L. Van Name and Pat Murphy

Honorable Mentions

Also by Gardner Dozois

The Year's Best SF 25 # 2007

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Table of Contents

Finisterra - DAVID MOLES

Lighting Out - KEN MACLEOD

An Ocean is a Snowflake, Four Billion Miles Away - JOHN BARNES

Saving Tiamaat - GWYNETH JONES

Of Late I Dreamt of Venus - JAMES VAN PELT

Verthandi’s Ring - IAN MCDONALD

Sea Change - UNA MCCORMACK

The Sky Is Large and the Earth Is Small - CHRIS ROBERSON

WATER-DRAGON YEAR, TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF THE KANGXI EMPEROR

Glory - GREG EGAN

Against the Current - ROBERT SILVERBERG

Alien Archeology - NEAL ASHER

The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate - TED CHIANG

Beyond the Wall - JUSTIN STANCHFIELD

Kiosk - BRUCE STERLING

Last Contact - STEPHEN BAXTER

The Sledge-Maker’s Daughter - ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

Sanjeev and Robotwallah - IAN MCDONALD

The Skysailor’s Tale - MICHAEL SWANWICK

Of Love and Other Monsters - VANDANA SINGH

Steve Fever - GREG EGAN

Hellfire at Twilight - KAGE BAKER

The Immortals of Atlantis - BRIAN STABLEFORD

Nothing Personal - PAT CADIGAN

Tideline - ELIZABETH BEAR

The Accord - KEITH BROOKE

Laws of Survival - NANCY KRESS

The Mists of Time - TOM PURDOM

Craters - KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH

The Prophet of Flores - TED KOSMATKA

Stray - BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM DAVID ACKERT

Roxie - ROBERT REED

Dark Heaven - GREGORY BENFORD

Summation: 2007

The Year's Best SF 13 # 1995

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CONTENTS

Title Page

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Summation: 1995

A WOMAN’S LIBERATION Ursula K. Le Guin

STARSHIP DAY Ian R. MacLeod

A PLACE WITH SHADE Robert Reed

LUMINOUS Greg Egan

THE PROMISE OF GOD Michael F. Flynn

DEATH IN THE PROMISED LAND Pat Cadigan

FOR WHITE HILL Joe Haldeman

SOME LIKE IT COLD John Kessel

THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN FUTURE Allen Steele

THE LINCOLN TRAIN Maureen F. McHugh

WE WERE OUT OF OUR MINDS WITH JOY David Marusek

RADIO WAVES Michael Swanwick

WANG’S CARPETS Greg Egan

CASTING AT PEGASUS Mary Rosenblum

LOOKING FOR KELLY DAHL Dan Simmons

THINK LIKE A DINOSAUR James Patrick Kelly

COMING OF AGE IN KARHIDE Ursula K. Le Guin

GENESIS Poul Anderson

FEIGENBAUM NUMBER Nancy Kress

HOME Geoff Ryman

THERE ARE NO DEAD Terry Bisson

RECORDING ANGEL Paul J. McAuley

ELVIS BEARPAW’S LUCK William Sanders

MORTIMER GRAY’S HISTORY OF DEATH Brian Stableford

HONORABLE MENTIONS: 1995

The Book of Swords

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New epic fantasy in the grand tradition—including a never-before-published Song of Ice and Fire story by George R. R. Martin!
Fantasy fiction has produced some of the most unforgettable heroes ever conjured onto the page: Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian, Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné, Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Classic characters like these made sword and sorcery a storytelling sensation, a cornerstone of fantasy fiction—and an inspiration for a new generation of writers, spinning their own outsize tales of magic and swashbuckling adventure.

Now, in Book of Swords, acclaimed editor and bestselling author Gardner Dozois presents an all-new anthology of original epic tales by a stellar cast of award-winning modern masters—many of them set in their authors' best-loved worlds. Join today's finest tellers of fantastic tales, including George R. R. Martin, K. J. Parker, Robin Hobb, Ken Liu, C. J. Cherryh,...

Year's Best Science Fiction 02 # 1985

Sat, 16 Nov 1985 15:41:54 +0300

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection for 1984 pub in 1985This collection is the second installment in the popular and long-running "The Year's Best Science Fiction" series:Fantastic Science Fiction!The Year's Best -- And Biggest CollectionHere's the cream of the crop: short stories, novelettes, novellas by science fiction writers already famous and awarded for their high-quality work in science fiction. Dozois's Year's Best, like any successful representative of a large constituency, sometimes suffers from blandness and inconsistency. As usual, it's oversized?23 stories, nearly 600 pages?and includes a variety of types of SF as well as near-horror, fantasy and humor. Five of the stories are final nominees for Nebulas, and two new "Hainish" stories by Ursula LeGuin were nominated for Tiptree Awards; "The Matter of Segrri" won. No story here is less than competent and professional; but, with a few exceptions, there is a voiceless sameness in the writing, practically a house style, that over so many pages grows tedious. (Nearly half the stories, by page count, come from the Dozois-edited Asimov's Science Fiction.) A number are flawed ("hard" SF stories about "aliens" that think just like humans) or unremarkable, but these are outweighed by many fine pieces and by standouts such as LeGuin's "Forgiveness Day," perhaps the best story in the book; Eliot Fintushel's "New Wave"-like "Ylem"; William Sanders's "Going After Old Man Alabama" and Terry Bisson's "The Hole in the Hole," both of which are winning and funny; Katherine Kerr's chilling "Asylum"; and Michael Bishop's grand and humane "Cri de Coeur." Dozois's intelligently and ably put-together anthology does its stated job as well as any one book or editor could. Even with competition, it would still be the best of the Best.
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Summation: 1984 • Gardner Dozois

Salvador • Lucius Shepard

Promises to Keep • Jack McDevitt

Bloodchild • Octavia E. Butler

Blued Moon • Connie Willis

A Message to the King of Brobdingnag • Richard Cowper

The Affair • Robert Silverberg

PRESS ENTER [] • John Varley

New Rose Hotel • William Gibson

The Map • Gene Wolfe

Interlocking Pieces • Molly Gloss

Trojan Horse • Michael Swanwick

Bad Medicine • Jack Dann

At the Embassy Club • Elizabeth A. Lynn

Pursuit of Excellence • Rena Yount

The Kindly Isle • Frederik Pohl

Rock On • Pat Cadigan

Sunken Gardens [Mechanist-Shapers] • Bruce Sterling

Trinity • Nancy Kress

The Trouble with the Cotton People • Ursula K. Le Guin

Twilight Time • Lewis Shiner

Black Coral • Lucius Shepard

Friend • James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel

Foreign Skins • Tanith Lee

Company in the Wings

A Cabin on the Coast • Gene Wolfe

The Lucky Strike • Kim Stanley Robinson

Honorable Mentions: 1984 • Gardner Dozois •

Explorers

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Explorers: SF Adventures to Far HorizonsDistant planets, galaxies, alien races--the universe is vast and filled with an almost unimaginable range of possibilities. But imagine it we can. Here are more than twenty stories from the most inventive writers in the field.These are the stories of discovering those possibilities-the stories of the explorers and pioneers who push the envelope further out--exciting tales of alien landscapes and adventures on far distant shores that are the heart and soul of science fiction.

Amazon.com Review

Gardner Dozois, editor of Asimov's and the annual anthology series, The Year's Best Science Fiction, has assembled 23 stories by some of the best-known names in SF, past and present. The stories, which "explore the farthest reaches of the universe," were written between 1951 and 1998 and are presented in chronological order. As the stories progress, so does the terrain being explored."The Sentinel," a classic Arthur C. Clarke tale of a man discovering an alien artifact on the moon (the inspiration for 2001: A Space Odyssey), shows the quintessential explorer of the time: alone, in charge of his environment, and happy that way. "Grandpa," by James H. Schmitz, concerns the indomitable spirit of Man, or at least Boy, and his natural lordship over all things alien. In Niven's "Becalmed in Hell," we meet a cyborg, and Zelazny introduces us to a population genetically engineered to the edge of humanity in "The Keys to December." Le Guin's story, "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow," suggests that in order to explore alien territory, you must be insane. Tiptree's piece, "The Man Who Walked Home," is a brilliant portrayal of the tension between the need to explore the unknown, and the human cost of that need. Stories by Varley and Swanwick, Baxter and Egan, show humans from an alien perspective: we are no longer the sum and center of the universe, merely a part.While it is possible to read this book as nothing more than a collection of adventure stories leavened with a pinch of a sense of wonder, a deeper reading reveals how the genre's gaze has turned from an examination of what lies Out There, the unknown place and the alien being, to a more inward contemplation: the question of what it is to be human. --Luc Duplessis.

Review

"The most imaginative editor in the field."--The Village Voice "Dozois is to the 1980s and 1990s what John W. Campbell, Jr., was to the 1940s and 1950s-the finest editor in the world of short SF."-*Publishers Weekly *

The Year's Best SF 30 # 2012

Sat, 16 Nov 1996 15:41:53 +0200

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: Thirtieth Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world through their short stories. 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.

The multiple Locus Award-winning annual compilation of the year’s best science fiction stories

contents

SUMMATION: 2012

WEEP FOR DAY • Indrapramit Das

THE MAN • Paul McAuley

THE STARS DO NOT LIE • Jay Lake

THE MEMCORDIST • Lavie Tidhar

THE GIRL-THING WHO WENT OUT FOR SUSHI • Pat Cadigan

HOLMES SHERLOCK • Eleanor Arnason

NIGHTFALL ON THE PEAK OF ETERNAL LIGHT • Richard A. Lovett and William Gleason

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS • Andy Duncan

THE FINITE CANVAS • Brit Mandelo

STEAMGOTHIC • Sean McMullen

IN THE HOUSE OF ARYAMAN, A LONELY SIGNAL BURNS • Elizabeth Bear

MACY MINNOT’S LAST CHRISTMAS ON DIONE, RING RACING, FIDDLER’S GREEN, THE POTTER’S GARDEN • Paul McAuley

TWENTY LIGHTS TO “THE LAND OF SNOW” • Michael Bishop

ASTROPHILIA • Carrie Vaughn

WHAT DID TESSIMOND TELL YOU? • Adam Roberts

OLD PAINT • Megan Lindholm

CHITAI HEIKI KORONBIN • David Moles

KATABASIS • Robert Reed

THE WATER THIEF • Alastair Reynolds

NIGHTSIDE ON CALLISTO • Linda Nagata

UNDER THE EAVES • Lavie Tidhar

SUDDEN, BROKEN, AND UNEXPECTED • Steven Popkes

FIREBORN • Robert Charles Wilson

RUMINATIONS IN AN ALIEN TONGUE • Vandana Singh

TYCHE AND THE ANTS • Hannu Rajaniemi

THE WRECK OF THE “CHARLES DEXTER WARD” • Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear

INVISIBLE MEN • Christopher Barzak

SHIP’S BROTHER • Aliette de Bodard

EATER-OF-BONE • Robert Reed

HONORABLE MENTIONS: 2012

Year's Best Science Fiction 01 # 1984

Fri, 16 Nov 1984 15:41:55 +0300

The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection - for 1983 pub in 1984This collection launched the popular and long-running "The Year's Best Science Fiction" series:Fantastic Science Fiction!The Year's Best -- And Biggest CollectionHere's the cream of the crop: short stories, novelettes, novellas by science fiction writers already famous and awarded for their high-quality work in science fiction. Writers like:

Cicada Queen [Mechanist-Shapers] • Bruce Sterling
Beyond the Dead Reef • James Tiptree, Jr.
Slow-Birds • Ian Watson
Vulcan’s Forge • Poul Anderson
Man-Mountain Gentian • Howard Waldrop
Hardfought • Greg Bear
Manifest Destiny • Joe Haldeman
Full Chicken Richness • Avram Davidson
Multiples • Robert Silverberg
Cryptic • Jack McDevitt
The Sidon in the Mirror • Connie Willis
Golden Gate • R. A. Lafferty
Blind Shemmy • Jack Dann
In the Islands • Pat Murphy
Nunc Dimittis • Tanith Lee
Blood Music • Greg Bear
Her Furry Face • Leigh Kennedy
Knight of Shallows • Rand B. Lee
The Cat • Gene Wolfe
The Monkey Treatment • George R. R. Martin
Nearly Departed [Deadpan Allie] • Pat Cadigan
Hearts Do Not in Eyes Shine • John Kessel
Carrion Comfort • Dan Simmons
Gemstone • Vernor Vinge
Black Air • Kim Stanley Robinson