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Overview

For years, 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. 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 With work spanning two decades, The Best of the Best stands as one of the ultimate science fiction anthologies ever published.

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For the last two decades, Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction has been acclaimed as the preeminent annual anthology of short-form science fiction. The Best of the Best is an aptly titled collection of the very finest stories from the first 20 editions -- a collection that Robert Silverberg calls "a volume that takes its place instantly among the classic science-fiction anthologies of all time."

With stories from Ursula K. Le Guin, Paul J. McAuley, Joe Haldeman, William Gibson, and Bruce Sterling, this massive collection is an absolute must-read for all those who call themselves fans of the genre. Greg Bear's "Blood Music" leads off the literary cavalcade with what Dozois describes as possibly "the first true nanotech story," a cautionary tale about a reckless scientist who injects himself with nucleoprotein microchips programmed to multiply and improve -- with civilization-altering results! Other entries include Michael Swanwick's "The Dead," which explores the ultimate cheap labor force; Stephen Baxter's "People Came from Earth," a sad look at humankind's future; Gene Wolfe's "A Cabin on the Coast," an eerie story about what happens when a man makes a deal with beings beyond his comprehension; and Terry Bisson's classic "Bears Discover Fire," a whimsical tale about bears boycotting hibernation, an old woman's dying wish, and the art of changing tires.

There's a reason why Dozois has won the Hugo Award 15 times for Best Editor, and there's a reason why this anthology is entitled The Best of the Best. Silverberg was right -- this is one of the strongest science fiction collections ever put together. Paul Goat Allen

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312336561
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Publication date: 2/1/2005
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 688
  • Sales rank: 563,286
  • Product dimensions: 6.17 (w) x 9.25 (h) x 1.93 (d)

Meet the Author

Gardner Dozois has won the Hugo Award for Best Editor twelve times. The editor of Asimov's SF magazine since 1986, he lives in Philadelphia, Peensylvania.

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  • Posted December 9, 2008

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    superb collection

    Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction Gardner Dozois St. Martin's Press, Feb 2005, $35.95 ISBN: 0312336551 Following twenty for the most part superior collections of the ¿Year¿s Best Science Fiction¿, Gardner Dozois provides a look back cross section of those he felt were the best, albeit a relative term in this case. This new compilation of stories previously published in the series does not contain one tale from each annual, but instead has multiples from the same year with only the 1987 and 1991 book omitted. The tales represent some of the genre¿s top guns over the past two decades with each entry top rate. This reviewer has been a long time fans of the series not just because the selections are always superb, but because they can be savored over a week or two; the same holds true for the all star selection. Fans of the series will appreciate this look back with fond memories while newcomers will get a taste of what has been consistently one of best science fiction short story anthologies.--- Harriet Klausner

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    Great anthology

    Following up on the first edition of the Best of the Best (short story oriented), Gardner Dozois fills the second collection with classic novellas, starting with the fantastic 'Sailing to Byzantium' by Silverberg. The entries speak for themselves as sci fi fans will recognize most if not all the contributions and many will have been read previously. The entries are Walter Jon Williams' 'Surfacing¿, Joe Haldeman's 'The Hemingway Hoax', James Patrick Kelly's 'Mr. Boy', Nancy Kress's 'Beggars in Spain', Michael Swanwick's 'Griffin's Egg', Frederik Pohl's 'Outnumbering the Dead', Ursula K. Le Guin's 'Forgiveness Day', Maureen F. McHugh's 'The Cost to Be Wise', Greg Egan¿s ¿Oceanic¿, Ian McDonald's 'Tendeleo's Story', Ian R. MacLeod's 'New Light on the Drake Equation', and Alastair Reynolds's 'Turquoise Days',. The stories run the gamut of the genre with a few crossing into fantasy, but what they share are strong story lines with believable characters bringing to life questions of humanity¿s place in the universe. The only question for readers is to pay or not to pay in light of having read most before as this compilation is top rate.---------- Harriet Klausner

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