The British edition of this book is Best New SF 6. A decade earlier, Gardner Dozois had edited the last two volumes (#9 and #10) of the similarly-titled "Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year " series for publisher E.P. Dutton. In 1984, he began THIS series for Bluejay/St.Martin; the two series are otherwise completely unrelated (appearing in different years, with entirely different contents, etc.). Dozois' "The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection" (St. Martin's, 1992) is an entirely different work from Dozois' "Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Ninth Annual Collection (Dutton, 1980).