The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois (Editor)
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(Paperback - Revised)
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press
- Pub. Date: July 2007
- ISBN-13: 9780312363352
- Sales Rank: 109,569
- 704pp
- Series: Year's Best Science Fiction Series, #24
- Edition Description: Revised
- Edition Number: 24
Synopsis
The twenty-eight stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including:
* Cory Doctorow * Robert Charles Wilson * Michael Swanwick * Ian McDonald * Benjamin Rosenbaum * Kage Baker * Bruce McAllister * Alastair Reynolds * Jay Lake * Ruth Nestvold * Gregory Benford * Justin Stanchfield * Walter Jon Williams * Greg Van Eekhout * Robert Reed * David D. Levine * Paul J. McAuley * Mary Rosenblum * Daryl Gregory * Jack Skillingstead * Paolo Bacigalupi * Greg Egan * Elizabeth Bear * Sarah Monette * Ken MacLeod * Stephen Baxter * Carolyn Ives Gilman * John Barnes * A.M. Dellamonica Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.
Publishers Weekly
Like a giant sequoia towering over a copse of maple trees, Hugo-winner Dozois's annual shelf-bending collection of the year's best SF continues to overshadow all other anthologies. Highlights include Greg Egan's "Riding the Crocodile," about two immortals who yearn to do something "grand and audacious" before they consciously end their lives; Cory Doctorow's "I, Row-Boat," which chronicles a theological dispute between an artificially intelligent boat and a sentient coral reef; and Alastair Reynolds's "Signal to Noise," an unexpectedly intimate story about a scientist's attempt to contact his recently deceased wife across quantum realities. This yearly anthology is required reading for every serious SF fan. (July)
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GARDNER DOZOIS has been working in the science fiction field for more than thirty years. For twenty years he was the editor of Asimov's Science Fiction, during which time he received the Hugo Award for Best Editor fifteen times.
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October 28, 2007: As always this annual collection is the best science fiction anthology of the year. Besides the strong selection of twenty-eight stories, the Summation 2006 is an interesting article that concludes that 2006 was ?overall a relatively uneventful year?. Still in this quiet year, Mr. Dozois references Locus magazine stating that ?there were 2495 books of interest to the SF field? excluding a myriad of Internet options and other tie-ins that would dramatically increase the total. All of the chosen twenty-eight are well written with many of the authors highly regarded like Cory Docterow, Robert Charles Wilson, Kage Baker, Alastair Reynolds, Robert Reed, Greg Egan, Elizabeth Bear, Sarah Monette and Stephen Baxter, etc. The best of the best (at least in my opinion) are 'Riding the Crocodile' by Greg Egan in which two immortals consider boldly conspicuously suicide together Robert Charles Wilson?s Julian: A Christmas Story as two men meet and struggle to survive a wintry night before traveling different life paths and a tour of Venus in Tin Marsh by Michael Stanwick, who according to Mr. Dozois has been writing for over two decades, but I confess I only read any of his works for the first time recently (see THE DRAGONS OF BABEL). Once gain this is a superb compilation as none of the entries are losers and most are excellent exploring the genre from quantum physics communicating with the dead to outer space and beyond 2006 may have been lacking in innovation, but still with quality tales abound prove to be a great year affirmed by Mr. Dozois? latest anthology. ---- Harriet Klausner
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