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Year's Best SF 9
| Author: | David G. Hartwell Kathryn Cramer |
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Eos, 2004 |
| Series: | Year's Best SF: Book 9 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
The world as we will know it is far different from the future once predicted in simpler times. For this newest collection of the finest short form SF to appear in print over the preceding year, acclaimed editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer have gathered remarkable works that reflect a new sensibility. Courageous and diverse stories from some of the finest authors in the field grace this amazing volume -- adventures and discoveries, parables and warnings, carrying those eager to fly to far ends of a vast, ever-shifting universe of alien worlds, strange cultures, and mind-bending technologies. Tomorrow has never been as spellbinding, terrifying, or transforming as it is here, today, in these extraordinary pages. Hang on!
Contents:
- Introduction (Year's Best SF 9) - (2004) - essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
- Amnesty - (2003) - novelette by Octavia E. Butler
- Birth Days - (2003) - short story by Geoff Ryman
- The Waters of Meribah - (2003) - short story by Tony Ballantyne
- Ej-Es - (2003) - short story by Nancy Kress
- Four Short Novels - (2001) - short story by Joe Haldeman
- Rogue Farm - (2003) - short story by Charles Stross
- The Violet's Embryos - (2003) - novelette by Angélica Gorodischer (trans. of Los embriones del violeta 1973)
- Coyote at the End of History - (2003) - short story by Michael Swanwick
- In Fading Suns and Dying Moons - (2003) - novelette by John Varley
- Castaway - (2003) - short story by Gene Wolfe
- The Hydrogen Wall - (2001) - novelette by Gregory Benford
- The Day We Went Through the Transition - (1998) - short story by Ricard de la Casa and Pedro Jorge Romero (trans. of Ed día que hicimos la Transición 1997)
- Nimby and the Dimension Hoppers - (2003) - short story by Cory Doctorow
- Night of Time - (2003) - short story by Robert Reed
- A Night on the Barbary Coast - (2003) - short story by Kage Baker
- Annuity Clinic - (2003) - short story by Nigel Brown
- The Madwoman of Shuttlefield - (2003) - novelette by Allen Steele
- Bread and Bombs - (2003) - short story by M. Rickert
- The Great Game - (2003) - short story by Stephen Baxter
- The Albertine Notes - (2003) - novella by Rick Moody
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