The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312608977 ISBN 13: 9780312608972

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2010

Synopsis

The thirty-two 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:

John Barnes, Elizabeth Bear, Damien Broderick, Karl Bunker, Paul Cornell, Albert E. Cowdrey, Ian Creasey, Steven Gould, Dominic Green, Nicola Griffith, Alexander Irvine, John Kessel, Ted Kosmatka, Nancy Kress, Jay Lake, Rand B. Lee, Paul McAuley, Ian McDonald, Maureen F. McHugh, Sarah Monette, Michael Poore, Robert Reed, Adam Roberts, Chris Roberson, Mary Rosenblum, Geoff Ryman, Vandana Singh, Bruce Sterling, Lavie Tidhar, James Van Pelt, Jo Walton, Peter Watts, Robert Charles Wilson, and John C. Wright.

Supplementing the stories are the editor’s insightful summation of the year’s events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination, and the heart.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Reviews

With 15 Hugo Awards under his belt, Dozois is arguably the sf genre’s most venerated editor. This twenty-seventh edition of Dozois’ celebrated annual anthology once again demonstrates why the awards are justified. Thirty-two thought-provoking and dazzlingly inventive stories represent sf’s best craftsmen, from veterans such as Robert Charles Wilson, Nancy Kress, and Ian McDonald to newcomers such as Karl Bunker, Vandana Singh and Ted Kosmatka. Interplanetary intrigue, time travel from the remote future, and earth’s fate on the eve of the sun’s demise are just some of the far-reaching premises explored here. A pair of Saturn moon explorers finds an ET frozen under the ice. A posthuman nostalgically reviews his life on earth before rocketing off to the stars. In a future Laos where private citizens construct their own spaceships, the culture remains little changed from Vietnam War days. In addition to Dozois’ always informative notes on each author, his introductory Summation: 2009 is both a review of the year’s highlights in publishing and film and a revealing look at the genre’s emerging trends. --Carl Hays

Edition details

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312608977
• ISBN 13: 9780312608972
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 688
• Editor: Dozois Gardner