Year's Best SF 18 (Year's Best SF Series) - Hardcover

Hartwell, David G.

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9780765338150: Year's Best SF 18 (Year's Best SF Series)

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ISBN 10: 0765338157 ISBN 13: 9780765338150

Publisher: Tor Books, 2013

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Once again, the finest SF short stories of the year have been collected in a single volume.

With Year's Best SF 18, acclaimed, award-winning editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell demonstrates the amazing depth and power of contemporary speculative fiction, showcasing astonishing short stories from some of science fiction's most respected names as well as exciting new writers to watch. In this anthology, prepare to travel light years from the ordinary into a tomorrow at once breathtaking, frightening, and possible with some of the greatest tales of wonder published in 2012.

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Widely acclaimed as the most influential SF editor of his age, DAVID G. HARTWELL lives in Pleasantville, New York. He has won the World Fantasy Award and multiple Hugo Awards for his editorial work.

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Editor Hartwell proves that sf “remains vigorous and challenging and eminently worth reading” in the eighteenth volume of his science-fiction anthology series, with 28 stories published in 2012 that represent the genre’s best. A soon-to-be mother haunts her future multiple times, always on Christmas, and tracks the progression of her and her daughter’s life in Paul Cornell’s poignant, philosophical story “The Ghosts of Christmas.” An alien translator of human stories uses her knowledge of Sherlock Holmes to solve a mystery in her own home in Eleanor Arnason’s “Holmes Sherlock: A Hwarhath Mystery.” Ken Liu, in “Waves,” explores the significance of creation stories through a woman’s evolution from an ordinary human on a generation ship to a being of free-form energy. A few very short stories, such as Lewis Shiner’s biting two-page “Application,” prove that length is not always necessary to explore provocative ideas. Together with stories by Andy Duncan, Gwyneth Jones, Yoon Ha Lee, Megan Lindholm, and many established and rising authors, this excellent anthology is evidence that the genre is alive and well. --Krista Hutley

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