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

The twenty-nine 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.

 

Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a 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.

Praise

"Dozois's intelligently and ably put-together anthology does its stated job as well as any one book or editor could. Even with competition, it would still be the best of the Best."—Publishers Weekly

About the Author(s)

Gardner Dozois

Gardner Dozois has been working in the science fiction field for more than thirty years. He was the editor of Asimov's Science Fiction for twenty years, during which time he won fifteen Hugo Awards. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Excerpt

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection
The Little GoddessIAN McDONALDBritish author Ian McDonald is an ambitious and daring writer with a wide range and an impressive amount of talent. His first story was published in 1982, and since then he has appeared with some frequency in Interzone, Asimov's Science Fiction, New Worlds, Zenith, Other Edens, Amazing, and elsewhere.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

 

Summation: 2005

 

"The Little Goddess," Ian McDonald

"The Calorie Man," Paolo Bacigalupi

"Beyond the Aquila Rift," Alastair Reynolds

"Second Person, Present Tense," Daryl Gregory

"The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Back from the Stars," Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold

"Triceratops Summer," Michael Swanwick

"Camouflage," Robert Reed

"A Case of Consilience," Ken MacLeod

"The Blemmye's Strategem," Bruce Sterling

"Amba," William Sanders

"Search Engine," Mary Rosenblum

"Piccadilly Circus," Chris Beckett

"In the Quake Zone," David Gerrold

"La Malcontenta," Liz Williams

"The Children of Time," Stephen Baxter

"Little Faces," Vonda N. McIntyre

"Comber," Gene Wolfe

"Audubon in Atlantis," Harry Turtledove

"Deus Ex Homine," Hannu Rajaniemi

"The Great Caruso," Steven Popkes

"Softly Spoke the Gabbleduck," Neal Asher

"Zima Blue," Alastair Reynolds

"Planet of the Amazon Women," David Moles

"The Clockwork Atom Bomb," Dominic Green

"Gold Mountain," Chris Roberson

"The Fulcrum," Gwyneth Jones

"Mayfly," Peter Watts and Derryl Murphy

"Two Dreams on Trains," Elizabeth Bear

"Angel of Light," Joe Haldeman

"Burn," James Patrick Kelly

 

Honorable Mentions: 2005