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(4) | 2 | From Hugo Award-Winning Editor Neil Clarke, the Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Collected in a Single Paperback Volume Keeping up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more--a task that can be accomplished by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to present the latest volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, a yearly anthology compiled by Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning editor Neil Clarke, collecting the finest that the genre has to offer, from the biggest names in the field to the most exciting new writers. The best science fiction scrutinizes our culture and politics, examines the limits of the human condition, and zooms across galaxies at faster-than-light speeds, moving from the very near future to the far-flung worlds of tomorrow in the space of a single sentence. Clarke, publisher and editor-in-chief of the acclaimed and award-winning magazine Clarkesworld, has selected the short science fiction (and only science fiction) best representing the previous year's writing, showcasing the talent, variety, and awesome "sensawunda" that the genre has to offer.… (more) |
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. ▾Conversations (About links) No current Talk conversations about this book. » See also 2 mentions » Add other authors (6 possible) Author name | Role | Type of author | Work? | Status | Neil Clarke | — | primary author | all editions | calculated | Barbeau, Erin | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Bo-young, Kim | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Bossert, Gregory Norman | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Cade, Octavia | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Chan, Grace | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Das, Indrapramit | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | de Bodard, Aliette | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Elison, Meg | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Garcia, R.S.A. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Iriarte, José Pablo | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Jingfang, Hao | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Larson, Rich | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Liu, Ken | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Lu, S. Qiouyi | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Menon, Anil | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Mohanraj, Mary Anne | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Nayler, Ray | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | O'Meara, Shauna | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Owomoyela, An | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Palmer, Suzanne | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Rajaniemi, Hannu | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Ramdas, Shiv | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Reed, Robert | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Schroeder, Karl | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Shrivastava, Cooper | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Singh, Vandana | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Thompson, Tade | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Towey, Alice | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Wang, Regina Kanyu | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed |
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As always, there's a lot to like here even when every story isn't exactly to my taste, and I appreciate the anthology introducing me to writers I haven't (as far as I remember, anyway) previously experienced. My favorite in this volume was the very first story, "Muallim" by Ray Nayler, which is about a UN inspector who goes to Khynalyg, a (real) remote village in Azerbaijan to evaluate the success of a program to use a robot instructor in schools. Somewhere (I forgot where now) I found a negative review dismissing it as cliché, but I actually found it a sharply observed story about how interactions between different societies can surprise us, and how often technology is put to unexpected use. Clearly written, cleverly done. But that doesn't mean it was all downhill from there or anything. Other highlights included:
Some of this content you can get online, of course (I have linked to them above when so), but the benefit of the volume is to get all of it in one place. Hopefully this series catches up soon!