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The Year's Best Science Fiction - 24th Edition by Gardner Dozois (Paperback)
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Highlights
- The twenty-eight 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.
- Locus Awards (Anthology) 2008 4th Winner
- About the Author: Gardner Dozois (1947-2018), one of the most acclaimed editors in science-fiction, has won the Hugo Award for Best Editor 15 times.
- 704 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Science Fiction
- Series Name: Year's Best Science Fiction
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About the Book
Widely regarded as the essential book for every science fiction fan, this anthology collects works by Michael Swanwick, Geoff Ryman, Allen Steele, Nancy Kress, Robert Reed, Michael Cassott, Charles Stross, and many other bright talents.Book Synopsis
The twenty-eight 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:
* Cory Doctorow * Robert Charles Wilson * Michael Swanwick * Ian McDonald * Benjamin Rosenbaum * Kage Baker * Bruce McAllister * Alastair Reynolds * Jay Lake * Ruth Nestvold * Gregory Benford * Justin Stanchfield * Walter Jon Williams * Greg Van Eekhout * Robert Reed * David D. Levine * Paul J. McAuley * Mary Rosenblum * Daryl Gregory * Jack Skillingstead * Paolo Bacigalupi * Greg Egan * Elizabeth Bear * Sarah Monette * Ken MacLeod * Stephen Baxter * Carolyn Ives Gilman * John Barnes * A.M. Dellamonica
Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a 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.
Review Quotes
"For a broad and eclectic overview of SF and its varieties, Dozois's huge anthology remains essential." --Gary K. Wolf, LOCUS Magazine, on THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL COLLECTION
"Gardner Dozois is of course the granddaddy of the annual anthology.... His housebrick of a collection...is the closest thing the field has to a single 'canon-forming' volume." --Strange Horizons magazine on THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL COLLECTIONAbout the Author
Gardner Dozois (1947-2018), one of the most acclaimed editors in science-fiction, has won the Hugo Award for Best Editor 15 times. He was the editor of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine for 20 years. He is the editor of The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies and co-editor of the Warrior anthologies, Songs of the Dying Earth, and many others. As a writer, Dozois twice won the Nebula Award for best short story. He lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.