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The Year's Best SF 17 is a showcase of the best short form science fiction of 2011, selected by World Fantasy Award winners David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, two of the most respected editors in the field of speculative fiction. Like the previous sixteen volumes of the series that has been called "the finest modern science fiction writing," The Year's Best SF 17 features stories from some of the brightest lights in sf--including Gregory Benford (Beyond Human), Nancy Kress (Beggars in Spain), James Morrow (The Philosopher's Apprentice), Michael Swanwick (The Dragons of Babel) and Neil Gaiman (American Gods) --as well as electrifying short stories from exciting newcomers.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
• The Best Science Fiction of the Year Three - (2011) - shortfiction by Ken MacLeod
• Dolly - (2011) - short story by Elizabeth Bear
• Altogether Elsewhere, Vast Herds of Reindeer - (2011) - short story by Ken Liu
• Tethered - (2011) - shortfiction by Mercurio D. Rivera
• Wahala - (2011) - novelette by Nnedi Okorafor
• Laika's Ghost - (2010) - novelette by Karl Schroeder
• Ragnarok - (2011) - poem by Paul Park
• Six Months, Three Days - (2011) - novelette by Charlie Jane Anders
• "And Weep Like Alexander" - (2011) - shortfiction by Neil Gaiman
• The Middle of Somewhere - (2011) - novelette by Judith Moffett
• Mercies - (2010) - novelette by Gregory Benford
• The Education of Junior Number 12 - (2011) - shortfiction by Madeline Ashby
• Our Candidate - (2011) - short story by Robert Reed
• Thick Water - (2011) - shortfiction by Karen Heuler
• The War Artist - (2011) - short story by Tony Ballantyne
• The Master of the Aviary - (2011) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• Home Sweet Bi'ome - (2011) - novelette by Pat MacEwen
• For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I'll Not Be Back Again - (2011) - short story by Michael Swanwick
• The Ki-anna - (2010) - novelette by Gwyneth Jones
• Eliot Wrote - (2011) - short story by Nancy Kress
• The Nearest Thing - (2011) - novelette by Genevieve Valentine
• A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel - (2011) - short story by Yoon Ha Lee
• The Ice Owl - (2011) - novella by Carolyn Ives Gilman

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