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Loading... The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collectionby Gardner DozoisSeries: Dozois Year's Best Science Fiction (26)
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The thirty stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: Paolo Bacigalupi, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Bear, Aliete de Bodard, James L. Cambias, Greg Egan, Charles Coleman Finlay, James Alan Gardner, Dominic Green, Daryl Gregory, Gwyneth Jones, Ted Kosmatka, Mary Robinette Kowal, Nancy Kress, Jay Lake, Paul McAuley, Ian McDonald, Maureen McHugh, Sarah Monette, Garth Nix, Hannu Rajaniemi, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Mary Rosenblum, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Geoff Ryman, Karl Schroeder, Gord Sellar, and Michael Swanwick.
Supplementing the stories are the editor’s insightful summation of the year’s events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination, and the heart.
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The average is 3.85, so a few 3's floating around. The glaring omission here is the other 5 star story is missing, in Ted Chiang's Exhalation. A deliberate choice to pike on that one is strange.
Still, great book overall.
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : TURING'S APPLES - Stephen Baxter
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : FROM BABEL'S FALL'N GLORY WE FLED - Michael Swanwick
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : THE GAMBLER - Paolo Bacigalupi
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : BOOJUM - Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : THE SIX DIRECTIONS OF SPACE - Alastair Reynolds
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : N-WORDS - Ted Kosmatka
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : AN ELIGIBLE BOY - Ian McDonald
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : SHINING ARMOUR - Dominic Green
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : THE HERO - Karl Schroeder
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : EVIL ROBOT MONKEY - Mary Robinette Kowal
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : FIVE THRILLERS - Robert Reed
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : THE SKY THAT WRAPS THE WORLD ROUND PAST THE BLUE AND INTO THE BLACK - Jay Lake
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : INCOMERS - Paul McAuley
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : CRYSTAL NIGHTS - Greg Egan
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : THE EGG MAN - Mary Rosenblum
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : HIS MASTER'S VOICE - Hannu Rajaniemi
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : THE POLITICAL PRISONER - Charles Coleman Finlay
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : BALANCING ACCOUNTS - James L. Cambias
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : SPECIAL ECONOMICS - Maureen McHugh
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : DAYS OF WONDER - Geoff Ryman
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : CITY OF THE DEAD - Paul McAuley
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : THE VOYAGE OUT - Gwyneth Jones
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : THE ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY OF LORD GRIMM - Daryl Gregory
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : G-MEN - Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : THE ERDMANN NEXUS - Nancy Kress
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : OLD FRIENDS - Garth Nix
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : THE RAY-GUN: A LOVE STORY - James Alan Gardner
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : LESTER YOUNG AND THE JUPITER'S MOONS' BLUES - Gord Sellar
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : BUTTERFLY - FALLING AT DAWN - Aliete de Bodard
Year's Best Science Fiction 26 : THE TEAR - Ian McDonald
Eaglets For Andromeda beam record.
4.5 out of 5
Trust debt.
3 out of 5
Laosy science news not enough until girlpopped.
4.5 out of 5
Brain pirates of space.
3.5 out of 5
Alternate universe Expansion Infrastructure Breakdown escape.
4.5 out of 5
Another good story by Kosmatka. I suppose the writer he reminds me of the most with the recent handful of stories is Robert Reed. Certainly good company.
The future issue he is taking a look at is cloning. The US has banned certain lines of research on religious grounds, so all the best cutting edge work happens elsewhere.
First with dogs, then the extinct Tasmanian Tiger, prehistoric mammoths, and, of course, finally making it to the Homo genus.
A leading scientist gets a Neanderthal skull. The results surprise, and a new minority becomes a target for racism.
A bit of flashforward and flashback here that seems to work ok.
Hopefully he can continue to come up with regular work given the recent quality.
4 out of 5
AI Matchmaking.
4 out of 5
Robot Khan rebuff.
3 out of 5
Jessie and the Jets big moth story, Capital performance, one night only.
4.5 out of 5
All fired up.
3.5 out of 5
G. M. Joe.
4 out of 5
The universal Old Dark Navy.
3.5 out of 5
Spy seeking stuffup space war city save memorial story.
4 out of 5
AI research society universal escape flareup.
5 out of 5
Cackleberry prevention.
3 out of 5
Plural copy execution pet team-up comeback.
4.5 out of 5
The Gulag Terraformago Intelligence Education.
4.5 out of 5
Machine incentivisation Company combat.
3.5 out of 5
Getting a Chinese Wal-Mart New Life revolution.
3.5 out of 5
Broad nag moggie hunt.
3.5 out of 5
Hive rat Ship Mind.
4.5 out of 5
Death Row colony code.
3.5 out of 5
Superhero invasion damage, new Doom.
4 out of 5
Hoover hit file deal.
4 out of 5
Double slit consciousness slip shift ship.
3.5 out of 5
Giant post-espresso Valkyrie chop-chop planting.
4 out of 5
' On the other hand, Jack had just acquired great power. And great responsibility. Like Peter Parker, Jack had to keep his power secret, for fear of tragic consequences. In Jack's case, maybe aliens would come for him. Maybe spies or government agents would kidnap him and his family. No matter how farfetched those things seemed, the existence of a ray-gun proved the world wasn't tame.'
4 out of 5
All that Space Jazz.
3 out of 5
Naked pain seller.
3 out of 5
Extra Aspect Enemy Mine scalarity scare creation universe conflict.
5 out of 5
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