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

Edited by Gardner Dozois

St. Martin's Griffin

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ISBN10: 1250119243
ISBN13: 9781250119247

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The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. In The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection, the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award-winning authors and masters of the field. With an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.
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Summation: 2016

“Terminal” by Lavie Tidhar
“Touring with the Alien” by Carolyn Ives Gilman
“Patience Lake” by Matthew Claxton
“Jonas and the Fox” by Rich Larson
“Prodigal” by Gord Sellar
“Kit: Some Assembly Required” by Kathe Koja and Carter Scholz
“Vortex” by Gregory Benford
“Elves of Antarctica” by Paul McAuley
“The Baby Eaters” by Ian McHugh
“A Salvaging of Ghosts” by Aliette de Bodard
“Those Shadows Laugh” by Geoff Ryma
“Redking” by Craig DeLancey
“Things with Beards” by Sam J. Miller
“Fieldwork” by Shariann Lewitt
“The Further Adventures of Mr. Costello” by David Gerrold
“Innumerable Glimmering Lights” by Rich Larson
“Fifty Shades of Grays” by Steven Barnes
“Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee” by Alastair Reynolds
“Cold Comfort” by Paul Murphy and Paul Doherty
“The Art of Space Travel” by Nina Allan
“Flight from the Ages” by Derek Kusken
“My Generations Shall Praise” by Samantha Henderson
“Mars Abides” by Stephen Baxter”
“The Visitor from Taured” by Ian R. MacLeod
“When the Stone Eagle Flies” by Bill Johnson
“The Vanishing Kind” by Lavie Tidhar
“One Sister, Two Sisters, Three” by James Patrick Kelly
“Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit—Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts” by Ken Liu
“Checkerboard Planet” by Eleanor Arnason
“They have all one breath” by Karl Bunker
“Mika Model” by Paolo Bacigalupi
“That Game We Played during the War” by Carrie Vaughn
“Because Change was the Ocean and We lived by Her Mercy” by Charlie Jane Anders
“The One Who Isn’t” by Ted Kosmatka
“Those Brighter Stars” by Mercurio D. Rivera
“A Tower for the Coming World” by Maggie Clark
“Firstborn, Lastborn” by Melissa Scott
“Women’s Christmas” by Ian McDonald
“The Iron Tactician” by Alastair Reynolds

Honorable Mentions: 2016

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Terminal

LAVIE TIDHAR


Here’s a beautifully written and ultimately quite moving portrait of the ordinary people who make up an unlikely crop of astronauts in the future—those who have accepted the government’s offer of...

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Edited by Gardner Dozois

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 was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2011 and has received the Skylark Award for Lifetime Achievement. He lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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