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

"For a broad and eclectic overview of SF and its varieties, Dozois's huge anthology remains essential."—Gary K. Wolf, LOCUS

"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



Table of Contents
I, ROW-BOAT • Cory Doctorow
JULIAN: A CHRISTMAS STORY • Robert Charles Wilson
TIN MARSH • Michael Swanwick
THE DJINN'S WIFE • Ian McDonald
THE HOUSE BEYOND YOUR SKY • Benjamin Rosenbaum
WHERE THE GOLDEN APPLES GROW • Kage Baker
KIN • Bruce McAllister
SIGNAL TO NOISE • Alastair Reynolds
THE BIG ICE • Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold
BOW SHOCK • Gregory Benford
IN THE RIVER • Justin Stanchfield
INCARNATION DAY • Walter Jon Williams
FAR AS YOU CAN GO • Greg Van Eekhout
GOOD MOUNTAIN • Robert Reed
I HOLD MY FATHER'S PAWS • David D. Levine
DEAD MEN WALKING • Paul J. McAuley
HOME MOVIES • Mary Rosenblum
DAMASCUS • Daryl Gregory
LIFE ON THE PRESERVATION • Jack Skillingstead
YELLOW CARD MAN • Paolo Bacigalupi
RIDING THE CROCODILE • Greg Egan
THE ILE OF DOGGES • Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
THE HIGHWAY MEN • Ken MacLeod
THE PACIFIC MYSTERY • Stephen Baxter
OKANOGGAN FALLS • Carolyn Ives Gilman
EVERY HOLE IS OUTLINED • John Barnes
THE TOWN ON BLIGHTED SEA • A. M. Dellamonica
NIGHTINGALE • Alastair Reynolds