The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction

The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction

Title: The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction
Author: Gardner Dozois
Release: 2005-02-01
Kind: ebook
Genre: Fiction & Literature, Books, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Literary Fiction
Size: 3263447
The renowned sci-fi anthology presents a twenty-year retrospective featuring many of the genre’s most important authors: “The results are breathtaking.” —Booklist

For decades, The Year’s Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after twenty-one annual collections, comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies, The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year’s Best Science Fiction, in which legendary editor Gardner Dozois selects the very best short stories for this landmark collection. Some notable stories include:

“Coming of Age in Karhide” by Ursula K. Le Guin. The feminist science fiction pioneer returns to the world of her classic The Left Hand of Darkness.

“The Winter Market” by William Gibson. Called the SF Timothy Leary of our times, Gibson returns to the subject that made him a cultural icon, cyberpunk.

“Trinity” by Nancy Kress. The search for God is enhanced by cutting edge technology in this story from one of the anthology’s most frequent and admired contributors.

Contributors include:

Stephen Baxter * Greg Bear * William Bigson * Terry Bisson * Pat Cadigan * Ted Chiang * John Crowley * Tony Daniel * Greg Egan * Molly Gloss * Eileen Gunn * Joe Haldeman * James Patrick Kelly * John Kessel * Nancy Kress * Ursula K. Le Guin * Ian R. MacLeod * David Marusek * Paul McAuley * Ian McDonald * Maureen F. McHugh * Robert Reed * Mike Resnick * Geoff Ryman * William Sander * Lucius Shepard * Robert Silverberg * Brian Stableford * Bruce Sterling * Charles Stross * Michael Swanwick * Steven Utley * Howard Waldrop * Walter Jon Williams * Connie Willis * Gene Wolfe

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