The very best of the best 35 years of the Year's Best Science Fiction

Book - 2019

"For the first time in a decade, a compilation of the very best in science fiction, from a world authority on the genre. For decades, the Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after thirty-five annual collections. comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies. In The Very Best of the Best, legendary editor Gardner Dozois selects the finest short stories for this landmark collection."--Publisher's description.

Saved in:
This item has been withdrawn.

1st Floor Show me where

SCIENCE FICTION/Very
All copies withdrawn
Location Call Number   Status
1st Floor SCIENCE FICTION/Very Withdrawn
Subjects
Genres
Science fiction
Short stories
Published
New York : St. Martin's Griffin 2019.
Language
English
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
ix, 686 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN
9781250296191
9781250296207
  • The potter of bones / Eleanor Arnason
  • Rogue farm / Charles Stross
  • The little goddess / Ian McDonald
  • Dead men walking / Paul McAuley
  • Tin marsh / Michael Swanwick
  • Good mountain / Robert Reed
  • Where the golden apples grow / Kage Baker
  • The sledge-maker's daughter / Alastair Reynolds
  • Glory / Greg Egan
  • Finisterra / David Moles
  • The illustrated biography of Lord Grimm / Daryl Gregory
  • Utriusque Cosmi / Robert Charles Wilson
  • Events preceding the Helvetican Renaissance / John Kessel
  • Useless things / Maureen McHugh
  • Mongoose / Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear
  • Hair / Adam Roberts
  • The things / Peter Watts
  • The emperor of Mars / Allen M. Steele
  • Flower, mercy, needle, chain / Yoon Ha Lee
  • Martian heart / John Barnes
  • The invasion of Venus / Stephen Baxter
  • Weep for day / Indrapramit Das
  • The girl-thing who went out for sushi / Pat Cadigan
  • The memcordist / Lavie Tidhar
  • The best we can / Carrie Vaughn
  • The discovered country / Ian R. MacLeod
  • Pathways / Nancy Kress
  • The hand is quicker ... / Elizabeth Bear
  • Someday / James Patrick Kelly
  • The long haul, from the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009 / Ken Liu
  • Three cups of grief, by starlight / Aliette De Bodard
  • Calved / Sam J. Miller
  • Emergence / Gwyneth Jones
  • Rates of change / James S.A. Corey
  • Jonas and the fox / Rich Larson
  • Kit: some assembly required / Kathe Koja and Carter Scholz
  • Winter timeshare / Ray Nayler
  • My English name / R.S. Benedict.
Review by Booklist Review

*Starred Review* This selection from the annual anthology series pays tribute to the late Dozois' brilliant editorial skills. The authors selected range from widely anthologized giants to more recently discovered talent. Some stories provide variations on well-established subgenres, such as John Kessel's space opera of monks and gods, "Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance"; the embattled supervillain's kingdom of Daryl Gregory's "The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm"; or the Gene Wolfe-esque science-fantasy world divided into perfect halves of Day and Evening in Indrapramit Das' "Weep for Day." Other stories explore the human condition, such as Eleanor Arnason's "The Potter of Bones," about one alien woman's exploration of her world's prehistory, or Gwyneth Jones' "Emergence," in which a woman living among diverse life forms in the outer solar system must reckon with the limits of her human body. And then there are stories that just luxuriate in strangeness and invention, such as Yoon Ha Lee's brief but beautiful "Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain," in which an immortal woman wields a gun capable of transforming history in a single shot. This anthology is highly recommended for anyone interested in all of the rich and varied possibilities sf as a genre has to offer.--Alan Keep Copyright 2018 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

The 38 stories in this culling of the last 15 annual anthologies edited by the late Dozois testify to the breathtaking scope of science fiction and the diversity and talent of its writers. Eleanor Arnason's "The Potter of Bones" concerns an artist in a primitive society applying the scientific method to her work. John Kessel's "Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance" is set on a world where technology and religious superstition dovetail. Michael Swanwick's "Tin Marsh" and John Barnes's "Martian Heart" both elaborate on the challenges humans face in extraterrestrial environments, while Charles Stross's "Rogue Farm" and Pat Cadigan's "The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi" speculate on the strange forms future life might take. Forward-looking as all the stories are, several are tributes to the groundbreaking genre fiction of Ray Bradbury, H.P. Lovecraft, and Edgar Rice Burroughs by, respectively, Kage Baker, Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette, and Allen M. Steele. Dozois was one of the great editors of science fiction over the last 50 years, and this book features some of the best science fiction written in the 21st century. Agent: Vaughne Lee Hansen, Virginia Kidd Agency. (Feb.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

(c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Review by Library Journal Review

Since 1984, The Year's Best Science Fiction has highlighted more than 600 stories from authors around the world. Each year the collection brings together writers who run the length and depth of sf themes and tropes. Dozois, editor of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine for 20 years and a Nebula Award winner, has assembled a third-and final, after his May 2018 passing-curated anthology from the series, drawing on short fiction published in the 20th through 35th annual collections, from 2003 to 2017. Popular names such as Ken Liu ("The Long Haul, from the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009"), Stephen Baxter ("The Invasion of Venus"), and Elizabeth Bear ("The Hand Is Quicker...") all grace the pages, along with 35 other authors of note. VERDICT This anthology is another illuminating look into some of the best current sf from the last decade and more, offering a glorious range of characters, plots, and themes as well as forgotten fiction from sf's favorite authors.-Kristi Chadwick, Massachusetts Lib. Syst., Northampton © Copyright 2019. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

(c) Copyright Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.