Book club edition. One of the best and most significant anthologies of modern science fiction, with works by established prize-winning writers and newcomers to the field. SIGNED by SIX authors at their stories: Gregory Benford, Nancy Kress, Michael Swanwick, Mike Resnick, Michael Cassutt and James Blaylock. Also included in this volume are stories by Tony Daniel, James P. Blaylock, Bud Sparhawk, John Kessel, Paul Park, Ian McDonald, Robert Silverberg, Jim Cowan, Maureen F. McHugh, Bruce Sterling, Gregory Feeley, Michael Cassutt, Mike Resnick, Gwyneth Jones, Charles Sheffield, Robert Reed, Steven Utley, William Barton, Gene Wolfe, Jonathan Lethem, Cherry Wilder, Damien Broderick, Walter Jon Williams, Stephen Baxter, and Tony Daniel, ,along with the editor's annual summary of the year - 1996 - and his list of Honorable Mentions. Dustjacket advertises'more than 250,000 words of fantastic fiction'. lxii, 752 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket (small tear at bottom edge.).

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Title

THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: Fourteenth (14th) Annual Collection.

Publisher

St Martin's, New York

Publication Date

1997

Language

English

ISBN 10

0312157029

ISBN 13

9780312157029

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

NEAR FINE

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A volume of an editor's favorite short science fiction pieces showcases the work of Gregory Benford, Tony Daniel, John Kessel, Nancy Kress, Maureen F. McHugh, Paul Park, Robert Silverberg, Bruce Sterling, and other notable authors. 25,000 first printing.

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Twenty-eight tales from 1996, expertly selected by editor Dozois (his secret? ``He picks the stories he likes best,'' the blurb trumpets), plus the customary overview (not seen). Three contributors--Gregory Benford, Ian McDonald, and Mike Resnick- -write, independently, about Africa, while Tony Daniel appears twice, with one story about a future combat veteran and another about robots. The parade of famous names continues with Michael Swanwick (job security), Nancy Kress (aliens), James P. Blaylock (nostalgia and the supernatural), Robert Silverberg (a May/December romance), Bruce Sterling (bicycles), Gwyneth Jones (dreams), Charles Sheffield (a science thriller), Robert Reed (multigeneration starship), Gene Wolfe (a sea voyage), Cherry Wilder (a preWW I doctor), and Walter Jon Williams (China). Essential reading for short story fans: The tireless Dozois triumphs again. -- Copyright �1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

In science fiction, Nebula and Hugo award winners are collected annually. Those anthologies offer the collective judgment of the sf community and represent a sort of received wisdom, a collective sense of taste and fashion. Luckily, also in sf there are Gardner Dozois' Year's Bests, which reflect just one individual's judgment and by now have become part of sf's institutional memory. Dozois' idiosyncratic judgment provides welcome counterpoint to the sometimes too-closely-resembling-popularity-polls voted awards (after all, as someone once said, "A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain"). Packed with dependable stories by such well-known writers as Gregory Benford, Robert Silverberg, James P. Blaylock, and Gene Wolfe and others by hands less known outside the genre, such as Tony Daniel, Cherry Wilder, and Jonathan Lethem, Dozois' fourteenth selection provides something for every taste and also the opportunity to bridle and dispute that is so important to regular readers of best-of anthologies. An absolute must. Dennis Winters

Dozois has again selected the best short sf of 1996 for inclusion in this award-winning anthology series. Among the 27 writers are Gregory Benford, John Kessel, Robert Silverberg, Maureen F. McHugh, Bruce Sterling, Charles Sheffield, and Stephen Baxter, with contributions covering romance, aliens, a high-tech future, the space program, Africa, scientific thriller, hard science, and cyberpunk. Highly recommended for all sf collections.
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