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

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection(2010)

Gardner DozoisStephen BaxterC.C. FinlayKathryn CramerDavid G. Hartwell

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The thirty-two stories in this collection imaginatively take 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, including:

John Barnes, Elizabeth Bear, Damien Broderick, Karl Bunker, Paul Cornell, Albert E. Cowdrey, Ian Creasey, Steven Gould, Dominic Green, Nicola Griffith, Alexander Irvine, John Kessel, Ted Kosmatka, Nancy Kress, Jay Lake, Rand B. Lee, Paul McAuley, Ian McDonald, Maureen F. McHugh, Sarah Monette, Michael Poore, Robert Reed, Adam Roberts, Chris Roberson, Mary Rosenblum, Geoff Ryman, Vandana Singh, Bruce Sterling, Lavie Tidhar, James Van Pelt, Jo Walton, Peter Watts, Robert Charles Wilson, and John C. Wright.

Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination, and the heart.


xiii • Summation: 2009 (The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection) • essay by Gardner Dozois
1 • Utriusque Cosmi • (2009) • novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
18 • A Story, with Beans • [7th Sigma] • (2009) • shortstory by Steven Gould
25 • Under the Shouting Sky • (2009) • shortstory by Karl Bunker
32 • Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance • (2009) • novelette by John Kessel
55 • Useless Things • (2009) • shortstory by Maureen F. McHugh
68 • Black Swan • (2009) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
86 • Crimes and Glory • (2009) • novella by Paul J. McAuley
127 • Seventh Fall • (2009) • novelette by Alexander C. Irvine [as by Alexander Irvine ]
141 • Butterfly Bomb • (2009) • shortstory by Dominic Green
154 • Infinities • (2008) • novelette by Vandana Singh
175 • Things Undone • (2009) • novelette by John Barnes
205 • On the Human Plan • (2009) • shortstory by Jay Lake
213 • The Island • (2009) • novelette by Peter Watts
240 • The Integrity of the Chain • (2009) • shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
246 • Lion Walk • (2009) • novelette by Mary Rosenblum
274 • Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction • (2009) • shortstory by Jo Walton
282 • Three Leaves of Aloe • (2009) • novelette by Rand B. Lee
296 • Mongoose • [Boojum] • (2009) • novelette by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear
312 • Paradiso Lost • (2009) • novella by Albert E. Cowdrey
353 • It Takes Two • (2009) • novelette by Nicola Griffith
377 • Blocked • (2009) • shortstory by Geoff Ryman
391 • Solace • (2009) • shortstory by James Van Pelt
404 • Act One • (2009) • novella by Nancy Kress
441 • Twilight of the Gods • (2009) • novelette by John C. Wright
459 • Blood Dauber • (2009) • novelette by Michael Poore and Ted Kosmatka
486 • This Wind Blowing, and This Tide • (2009) • novelette by Damien Broderick
502 • Hair • (2009) • novelette by Adam Roberts
521 • Before My Last Breath • (2009) • shortstory by Robert Reed
535 • One of Our Bastards Is Missing • (2009) • novelette by Paul Cornell
553 • Edison's Frankenstein • (2009) • novelette by Chris Roberson
567 • Erosion • (2009) • shortstory by Ian Creasey
577 • Vishnu at the Cat Circus • (2009) • novella by Ian McDonald

Infos

Pages
688
Language
English


Published at
6/29/2010
Isbn13
9780312608972
Isbn10
0312608977

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