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The best stories of the year, as selected by the one of the world's most honoured science fiction authors and his long-time collaborator. Here in one affordable volume is the best short science fiction of the year as selected from magazines, anthologies and journals. It is the first in a prestigious new series from ibooks.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber
• Undone - (2001) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• Know How, Can Do - (2001) - novelette by Michael Blumlein
• From Here You Can See the Sunquists - (2001) - novelette by Richard Wadholm
• Keepers of Earth - (2001) - novelette by Robin Wayne Bailey
• Anomalies - (2001) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
• One of Her Paths - (2001) - novella by Ian Watson
• The Dog Said Bow-Wow - (2001) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• And No Such Things Grow Here - (2001) - novelette by Nancy Kress
• Sun-Cloud - (2001) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
• Into Greenwood - (2001) - novelette by Jim Grimsley
• On K2 with Kanakaredes - (2001) - novelette by Dan Simmons
• About the Authors - essay by uncredited

A collection of the best science fiction prose written in 2002, by some the genre's greatest writers, and selected by two of SF's most respected editors. Here in one affordable volume is the best short science fiction of the year as selected from magazines, anthologies and journals. It is the second in a prestigious new series from ibooks.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber
• Tourist - (2002) - novelette by Charles Stross
• The Long Chase - (2002) - shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis
• Coelacanths - (2002) - novelette by Robert Reed
• Liking What You See: A Documentary - (2002) - novelette by Ted Chiang
• The Black Abacus - (2002) - shortstory by Yoon Ha Lee
• The Discharge - (2001) - shortstory by Christopher Priest
• Aboard the Beatitude - (2002) - novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
• Droplet - (2002) - shortstory by Benjamin Rosenbaum
• The War of the Worldviews - (2002) - shortstory by James Morrow
• Breathmoss - (2002) - novella by Ian R. MacLeod
• Angles - (2001) - novelette by Orson Scott Card

A collection of the best science fiction prose written in 2003, by some of the genre's greatest writers, and selected by two of science fiction's most respected editors. Continuing ibooks' series of popularly-priced "Best of the Year" books edited and designed to appeal to science fiction fans whose budgets may be taxed by more expensive "Best of the Year" collections.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Karen Haber
• The Fluted Girl - (2003) - novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• A Study in Emerald - (2003) - novelette by Neil Gaiman
• Flowers from Alice - (2003) - novelette by Charles Stross and Cory Doctorow
• The Tale of the Golden Eagle - (2003) - shortstory by David D. Levine
• Bernardo's House - (2003) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• Confusions of Uñi - (2003) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Jon - (2003) - novelette by George Saunders
• The Cookie Monster - (2003) - novella by Vernor Vinge
• Legions in Time - (2003) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
• The Chop Line - (2003) - novelette by Stephen Baxter
• Calling Your Name - (2003) - shortstory by Howard Waldrop
• The Empire of Ice Cream - (2003) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• Bump Ship - (2003) - shortstory by Susan Mosser
• Only Partly Here - (2003) - novelette by Lucius Shepard

A collection of the best science fiction prose written in 2004, by some of the genre's greatest writers, and selected by two of SF's most respected editors.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
• The Best Christmas Ever - (2004) - shortstory by James Patrick Kelly
• The Voluntary State - (2004) - novelette by Christopher Rowe
• The Lost Pilgrim - (2004) - novelette by Gene Wolfe
• Memento Mori - (2004) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
• PeriAndry's Quest - (2004) - novelette by Stephen Baxter
• Three Days in a Border Town - (2004) - novelette by Jeff VanderMeer
• Elector - (2004) - novella by Charles Stross
• Opal Ball - (2004) - shortstory by Robert Reed
• My Mother Dancing - (2004) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• The People of Sand and Slag - (2004) - novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Tourists - (2004) - shortstory by M. John Harrison
• All of Us Can Almost... - (2004) - shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
• The Tang Dynasty Underwater Pyramid - (2004) - novelette by Walter Jon Williams