The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 18th Annual Collection (Mammoth Books)

Widely regarded as the one essential book for every science fiction fan, The Year's Best Science Fiction (Winner of the 2004 Locus Award for Best Anthology) continues to uphold its standard of excellence with more than two dozen stories representing the previous year's best SF writing.The stories in this collection imaginatively take readers far across the universe, into the very core of their beings, to the realm of the Gods, and to the moment just after now. Included are the works of masters of the form and the bright new talents of tomorrow. This book is 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.

Contents
xi Acknowledgments (The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection) (2005) essay by Gardner Dozois
xiii Summation: 2004 essay by Gardner Dozois
1 Inappropriate Behavior (2004) novelette by Pat Murphy
27 Start the Clock (2004) shortstory by Benjamin Rosenbaum
42 The Third Party (2004) novelette by David Moles
72 The Voluntary State (2004) novelette by Christopher Rowe
105 Shiva in Shadow (2004) novelette by Nancy Kress
153 The People of Sand and Slag (2004) novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
172 The Clapping Hands of God (2004) novelette by Michael F. Flynn
214 Tourism (2004) shortstory by M. John Harrison
228 Scout's Honor (2004) shortstory by Terry Bisson
244 Men Are Trouble (2004) novelette by James Patrick Kelly
283 Mother Aegypt [Company] (2004) novella by Kage Baker
348 Synthetic Serendipity (2004) shortstory by Vernor Vinge
366 Skin Deep (2004) shortstory by Mary Rosenblum
389 Delhi (2004) shortstory by Vandana Singh
405 The Tribes of Bela [Colonel Kohn] (2004) novella by Albert E. Cowdrey
465 Sitka (2004) shortstory by William Sanders
478 Leviathan Wept (2004) shortstory by Daniel Abraham
499 The Defenders (2004) shortstory by Colin P. Davies
504 Mayflower II [Xeelee] (2004) novella by Stephen Baxter
562 Riding the White Bull (2004) novelette by Caitlín R. Kiernan
588 Falling Star (2004) shortstory by Brendan DuBois
603 The Dragons of Summer Gulch (2004) novelette by Robert Reed
628 The Ocean of the Blind (2004) shortstory by James L. Cambias
649 The Garden: A Hwarhath Science Fictional Romance [Hwarhath] (2004) novella by Eleanor Arnason
688 Footvote (2004) shortstory by Peter F. Hamilton
706 Sisyphus and the Stranger (2004) shortstory by Paul Di Filippo (aka Sisyphe et l'étranger)
718 Ten Sigmas (2004) shortstory by Paul Melko
726 Investments [Dread Empire's Fall] (2004) novella by Walter Jon Williams
811 Honorable Mentions: 2004 essay by Gardner Dozois

Gardner Dozois has won the Hugo Award for Best Editor twelve times, just proving that his is simply the most comprehensive and entertaining SF collection around.