The Year’s Best Science Fiction series by Gardner Dozois (#3-9, 11, 14, 29)
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Overview: Gardner Raymond Dozois (born July 23, 1947) is an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004. He has won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, both as an editor and a writer of short fiction.
Genre: Science Fiction, Short Stories
Third Annual Collection (The Year’s Best Science Fiction #3)
Contents:
- "The Jaguar Hunter" by Lucius Shepard
"Dogfight" by Michael Swanwick and William Gibson
"Fermi and Frost" by Frederik Pohl
"Green Days in Brunei" by Bruce Sterling
"Snow" by John Crowley
"The Fringe" by Orson Scott Card
"The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things" by Karen Joy Fowler
"Sailing to Byzantium" by Robert Silverberg
"Solstice" by James Patrick Kelly
"Duke Pasquale’s Ring" by Avram Davidson
"More Than the Sum of His Parts" by Joe Halderman
"Out of All THem Bright Stars" by Nancy Kress
"Side Effects" by Walter Jon Williams
"The Only Neat Thing to Do" by James Tiptree, Jr.
"Dinner in Audoghast" by Bruce Sterling
"Under Siege" by George R. R. Martin
"Flying Saucer Rock & Roll" by Howard Waldrop
"A Spanish Lesson" by Lucius Shepard
"Roadside Rescue" by Pat Cadigan
"Paper Dragons" by James P. Blaylock
"Magazine Section" by R. A. Lafferty
"The War at Home" by Lewis Shiner
"Rockabye Baby" by S.C. Sykes
"Green Mars" by Kim Stanley Robinson
Fourth Annual Collection (The Year’s Best Science Fiction #4)
Contents:
- Introduction: Summation by Gardner Dozois
R & R by Lucius Shepard
Hatrack River [The Alvin Maker Saga] by Orson Scott Card
Strangers on Paradise by Damon Knight (variant of Strangers in Paradise)
Pretty Boy Crossover by Pat Cadigan
Against Babylon by Robert Silverberg
Fiddling for Waterbuffaloes by S. P. Somtow [as by Somtow Sucharitkul ]
Into Gold by Tanith Lee
Sea Change by Scott Baker
Covenant of Souls by Michael Swanwick
The Pure Product by John Kessel
Grave Angels by Richard Kearns
Tangents by Greg Bear
The Beautiful and the Sublime by Bruce Sterling
Tattoos by Jack Dann
Night Moves by Tim Powers
The Prisoner of Chillon by James Patrick Kelly
Chance by Connie Willis
And so to Bed by Harry Turtledove
Fair Game by Howard Waldrop
Video Star by Walter Jon Williams
Sallie C. by Neal Barrett, Jr.
Jeff Beck by Lewis Shiner
Surviving by Judith Moffett
Down and Out in the Year 2000 by Kim Stanley Robinson
Snake-Eyes by Tom Maddox
The Gate of Ghosts by Karen Joy Fowler
The Winter Market by William Gibson
Honorable Mentions by Gardner Dozois
Fifth Annual Collection (The Year’s Best Science Fiction #5)
Contents:
- "Summation: 1987" (Gardner Dozois)
"Rachel in Love" (Pat Murphy)
"Dream Baby" (Bruce McAllister)
"Flowers of Edo" (Bruce Sterling)
"Forever Yours, Anna" (Kate Wilhelm)
"At the Cross-Time Jaunter’s Ball" (Alexander Jablokov)
"Dinosaurs" (Walter Jon Williams)
"Perpetuity Blues" (Neal Barrett, Jr.)
"The Temporary King" (Paul J. McAuley)
"Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight" (Ursula K. Le Guin)
"The Pardoner’s Tale" (Robert Silverberg)
"Glass Cloud" (James Patrick Kelly)
"The Evening and the Morning and the Night" (Octavia E. Butler)
"Night of the Cooters" (Howard Waldrop)
"Angel" (Pat Cadigan)
"Shades" (Lucius Shepard)
"The Faithful Companion at Forty" (Karen Joy Fowler)
"Candle in a Cosmic Wind" (Joseph Manzione)
"The Emir’s Clock" (Ian Watson)
"Ever After" (Susan Palwick)
"The Forest of Time" (Michael Flynn)
"The Million-Dollar Wound" (Dean Whitlock)
"The Moon of Popping Trees" (R. Garcia y Robertson)
"Diner" (Neal Barrett, Jr.)
"All the Hues of Hell" (Gene Wolfe)
"Halley’s Passing" (Michael McDowell)
"America" (Orson Scott Card)
"For Thus Do I Remember Carthage" (Michael Bishop)
"Mother Goddess of the World" (Kim Stanley Robinson)
"Honorable Mentions: 1987" (Gardner Dozois)
The Year’s Best Science Fiction (The Year’s Best Science Fiction #6)
Contents:
- Walter Jon Williams:"Surfacing"
James Patrick Kelly:"Home Front"
Brian Stableford:"The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady"
Steven Gould:"Peaches for Mad Molly"
Harry Turtledove:"The Last Article"
Eileen Gunn:"Stable Strategies for Middle Management"
Nancy Kress:"In Memoriam"
Mike Resnick:"Kirinyaga," which went on to win a 1989 Hugo award for best short story
Bruce McAllister:"The Girl Who Loved Animals"
Connie Willis:"The Last of the Winnebagoes," which went on to win a 1989 Hugo award for best novella
Lewis Shiner:"Love In Vain"
Judith Moffett:"The Hob"
Bruce Sterling:"Our Neural Chernobyl"
Robert Silverberg:"House of Bones"
George Alec Effinger:"Schrodinger’s Kitten," which went on to win a 1989 Hugo award for best novelette
Howard Waldrop:"Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?"
Brian Stableford:"The Growth of the House of Usher"
Kim Stanley Robinson:"Glacier"
James Lawson:"Sanctuary"
Michael Swanwick:"The Dragon Line"
John Kessel:"Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner"
Stephen Kraus:"Emissary"
Pat Cadigan:"It Was the Heat"
Kristine Kathryn Rusch:"Skin Deep"
D. Alexander Smith:"Dying in Hull"
Kathe Koja:"Distances"
Kim Newman:"Famous Monsters"
Lucius Shepard:"The Scalehunter’s Beautiful Daughter"
Seventh Annual Collection (The Year’s Best Science Fiction #7)
Contents:
- Judith Moffett:"Tiny Tango"
Charles Sheffield:"Out of Copyright"
Mike Resnick:"For I Have Touched the Sky"
Gregory Benford:"Alphas"
Connie Willis:"At the Rialto"
Kathe Koja:"Skin Deep"
Steven Popkes:"The Egg"
Robert Silverberg:"Tales from the Venia Woods"
William King:"Visiting the Dead"
Bruce Sterling:"Dori Bangs"
Lucius Shepard:"The Ends of the Earth"
Nancy Kress:"The Price of Oranges"
S. P. Somtow:"Lottery Night"
Alexander Jablokov:"A Deeper Sea"
Michael Swanwick:"The Edge of the World"
Megan Lindholm:"Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man"
Alan Brennert:"The Third Sex"
Neal Barrett, Jr.:"Winter on the Belle Fourche"
Robert Silverberg:"Enter A Soldier. Later, Enter Another," which went on to win the 1990 Hugo award for best novelette
Robert Sampson:"Relationships"
John Varley:"Just Another Perfect Day"
Janet Kagan:"The Loch Moose Monster"
Brian Stableford:"The Magic Bullet"
Avram Davidson:"The Odd Old Bird"
John Crowley:"Great Work of Time"
Eighth Annual Collection (The Year’s Best Science Fiction #8)
Contents:
- James Patrick Kelly: "Mr. Boy"
Ursula K. Le Guin: "The Shobies’ Story"
Greg Egan: "The Caress"
Charles Sheffield: "A Braver Thing"
Bruce Sterling: "We See Things Differently"
Kate Wilhelm: "And the Angels Sing"
Ian R. MacLeod: "Past Magic"
Terry Bisson: "Bears Discover Fire"
Lucius Shepard and Robert Frazier: "The All-Consuming"
Molly Gloss: "Personal Silence"
John Kessel: "Invaders"
Michael Moorcock: "The Cairene Purse"
Dafydd ab Hugh: "The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, a Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk"
Ted Chiang: "Tower of Babylon"
Alexander Jablokov: "The Death Artist"
John Brunner: "The First Since Ancient Persia"
Nancy Kress: "Inertia"
Greg Egan: "Learning to be Me"
Connie Willis: "Cibola"
Jonathan Lethem: "Walking the Moons"
Ian McDonald: "Rainmaker Cometh"
Robert Silverberg: "Hot Sky"
Lewis Shiner: "White City"
Pat Murphy: "Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates"
Joe Haldeman: "The Hemingway Hoax"
Ninth Annual Collection (The Year’s Best Science Fiction #9)
Contents:
- Nancy Kress: "Beggars in Spain", which went on to win the 1992 Hugo award for best novella
Alexander Jablokov: "Living Will"
Lois Tilton: "A Just and Lasting Peace"
William Gibson: "Skinner’s Room"
Walter Jon Williams: "Prayers on the Wind"
Greg Egan: "Blood Sisters"
Karen Joy Fowler: "The Dark"
Ian R. MacLeod: "Marnie"
Robert Silverberg: "A Tip on a Turtle"
Kim Newman: "Ubermensch!"
Pat Cadigan: "Dispatches from the Revolution"
Robert Reed: "Pipes"
Gregory Benford: "Matter’s End"
Kim Stanley Robinson: "A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations"
Paul J. McAuley: "Gene Wars"
Kristine Kathryn Rusch: "The Gallery of His Dreams"
Geoffrey A. Landis: "A Walk in the Sun", which went on to win the 1992 Hugo award for best short story
Ian McDonald: "Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria"
Kathe Koja: "Angels in Love"
Rick Shelley: "Eyewall"
James Patrick Kelly: "Pogrom"
Greg Egan: "The Moat"
Jack Dann: "Voices"
Brian W. Aldiss: "FOAM"
Connie Willis: "Jack"
Chris Beckett: "La Macchina"
Mike Resnick: "One Perfect Morning, with Jackals"
Mark L. Van Name and Pat Murphy: "Desert Rain"
Eleventh Annual Collection (The Year’s Best Science Fiction #11)
Contents:
- "Summation: 1993" (Gardner Dozois)
"Papa" (Ian R. MacLeod)
"Sacred Cow" (Bruce Sterling)
"Dancing on Air" (Nancy Kress)
"A Visit to the Farside" (Don Webb)
"Alien Bootlegger" (Rebecca Ore)
"Death on the Nile" (Connie Willis)
"Friendship Bridge" (Brian W. Aldiss)
"Into the Miranda Rift" (G. David Nordley)
"Mwalimu in the Squared Circle" (Mike Resnick)
"Guest of Honor" (Robert Reed)
"Love Toys of the Gods" (Pat Cadigan)
"Chaff" (Greg Egan)
"Georgia on My Mind" (Charles Sheffield)
"Cush" (Neal Barrett, Jr.)
"On the Collection of Humans" (Mark Rich)
"There and Then" (Steven Utley)
"The Night We Buried Road Dog" (Jack Cady)
"Feedback" (Joe Haldeman)
"Lieserl" (Stephen Baxter)
"Flashback" (Dan Simmons)
"A Child’s Christmas in Florida" (William Browning Spencer)
"Whispers" (Maureen F. McHugh and David B. Kisor)
"Wall, Stone, Craft" (Walter Jon Williams)
"Honorable Mentions: 1993" (Gardner Dozois )
Fourteenth Annual Collection (The Year’s Best Science Fiction #14)
Contents:
- Gregory Benford: "Immersion"
Michael Swanwick: "The Dead"
Nancy Kress: "The Flowers of Aulit Prison"
Tony Daniel: "A Dry, Quiet War"
James P. Blaylock: "Thirteen Phantasms"
Bud Sparhawk: "Primrose and Thorn"
John Kessel: "The Miracle of Ivar Avenue"
Paul Park: "The Last Homosexual"
Ian McDonald: "Recording Angel"
Robert Silverberg: "Death Do Us Part"
Jim Cowan: "The Spade of Reason"
Maureen F. McHugh: "The Cost to Be Wise"
Bruce Sterling: "Bicycle Repairman," which went on to win a 1997 Hugo award for best novelette
Gregory Feeley: "The Weighing of Ayre"
Michael Cassuit: "The Longer Voyage"
Mike Resnick: "The Land of Nod"
Gwyneth Jones: "Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland"
Charles Sheffield: "The Lady Vanishes"
Robert Reed: "Chrysalis"
Steven Utley: "The Wind Over the World"
William Barton: "Changes"
Gene Wolfe: "Counting Cats in Zanzibar"
Jonathan Lethem: "How We Got In Town and Out Again"
Cherry Wilder: "Dr. Tilmann’s Consultant: A Scientific Romance"
Damien Broderick: "Schrodinger’s Dog"
Walter Jon Williams: "Foreign Devils"
Stephen Baxter: "In the MSOB"
Tony Daniel: "The Robot’s Twilight Companion"
Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection (The Year’s Best Science Fiction #29)
Contents:
- Paul McAuley: "The Choice"
David Moles: "A Soldier of the City"
Damien Broderick: "The Beancounter’s Cat"
Elizabeth Bear: "Dolly"
John Barnes: "Martian Heart"
Ken MacLeod: "Earth Hour"
Karl Schroeder: "Laika’s Ghost"
Michael Swanwick: "The Dala Horse"
Peter S. Beagle: "The Way It Works Out and All"
Carolyn Ives Gilman: "The Ice Owl"
Paul Cornell: "The Copenhagen Interpretation"
Stephen Baxter: "The Invasion of Venus"
Ian McDonald: "Digging"
Alastair Reynolds: "Ascension Day"
Maureen McHugh: "After the Apocalypse"
Catherynne M. Valente: "Silently and Very Fast"
Jay Lake: "A Long Way Home"
Dave Hutchinson: "The Incredible Exploding Man"
Geoff Ryman: "What We Found"
Tom Purdom: "A Response from EST17"
Ian R. MacLeod: "The Cold Step Beyond"
David Klecha and Tobias S. Buckell: "A Militant Peace"
Robert Reed: "The Ants of Flanders"
Gwyneth Jones: "The Vicar of Mars"
Lavie Tidhar: "The Smell of Orange Groves"
Michael Flynn: "The Iron Shirts"
Pat Cadigan: "Cody"
Michael Swanwick: "For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I’ll Not Be Back Again"
Yoon Ha Lee: "Ghostweight"
Jim Hawkins (writer): "Digital Rites"
Alec Nevala-Lee: "The Boneless One"
Peter M. Ball: "Dying Young"
Chris Lawson: "Canterbury Hollow"
Ken MacLeod: "The Vorkuta Event"
Kij Johnson: "The Man Who Bridged the Mist"
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