“For a broad and eclectic overview of SF and its varieties, Dozois’s huge anthology remains essential.”—Gary K. Wolf, LOCUS Magazine

“The best that science fiction has to offer, chosen by the most respected editor in the field...a copy belongs of the shelf of every [science fiction] reader.”—George R.R. Martin, bestselling author of Game Of Thrones

"Veteran editor Dozois, 15-time Hugo winner, offers 30 stories, several of them Hugo-nominated. The table of contents is dominated by familiar names like Michael Swanwick and Greg Egan, but occasionally leavened with relative newcomers like Hannu Rajaniemi and more obscure authors like James Alan Gardner. Settings range from the present-day (Nancy Kress's 'The Erdmann Nexus') to the distant future (Ian McDonald's 'The Tear') and alternate history (Aliete de Bodard's 'Butterfly, Falling at Dawn'). Similarly the moods range from relatively upbeat (Dominic Green's 'Shining Armour') to pessimistic (Swanwick's 'From Babel's Fallen Glory We Fled') . . . Dozois also provides short biographies, a detailed overview of the year in SF and a lengthy list of honorable mentions. This is a worthy addition to a venerable series."—Publishers Weekly

“Gardner Dozois’s long-running ‘best of’ series is rightly a favorite . . . Mr. Dozois picks fiction that deserves to be better known to a wide audience.”—The Wall Street Journal

"To say that The Forever War is the best science fiction war novel ever written is to damn it with faint praise. It is, for all its techno-extrapolative brilliance, as fine and woundingly genuine a war story as any I've read."—William Gibson, author of Neuromancer, Spook Country

"One of the most important writers of the twentieth century."—Ray Bradbury

“Nebula Award winner Bear has long been known for novels of stunning scientific extrapolation and high literary quality . . . This new novel of Mars is his finest yet. Bear follows the unlikely career of Casseia Majumdar of the Majumdar Binding Multiple (a sort of cross between an extended family and a corporation) as she goes from lukewarm student activist to president of the fledgling Federal Republic of Mars. Beginning as a coming-of-age story, with Casseia encountering corruption as well as courage and determination in a student uprising, the narrative then becomes a fine, taut and realistic political novel, as Casseia travels to Earth as part of an ambassadorial retinue, and later serves as second in leader Ti Sandra's push for Martian unification. As conflict heats up between upstart Mars and Mother Earth, Bear introduces a wildly intriguing hard-science idea, and the novel spins into a tense science fiction thriller. Bear offers a fast-moving plot; realistic, appealing characters; a vividly imagined future Earth awash in 'tailored microbes,' nanotechnology and dirty dealing; and the most believable evocation of the workings of politics and science in any recent science fiction novel.”—Publishers Weekly