The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection
by Gardner R. Dozois (Editor)
Dozois Year's Best Science Fiction (2)
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This collection is the second installment in the popular and long-running "The Year's Best Science Fiction" series: Fantastic Science Fiction! The Year's Best -- And Biggest Collection Here's the cream of the crop: short stories, novelettes, novellas by science fiction writers already famous and awarded for their high-quality work in science fiction.Tags
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Gardner Dozois was born in Salem, Massachusetts on July 23, 1947. After working as an Army journalist, he became a science fiction and fantasy editor and author. He was the founding editor of The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies and editor of Asimov's from 1984 until 2004. His work as an editor received more than 40 Hugo Awards, 40 Nebula show more Awards, and 30 Locus Awards. He received the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor 15 times between 1988 and his retirement from Asimov's in 2004. He wrote books including Strangers and short stories including The Peacemaker and Morning Child, which won the Nebula Award for Short Story in 1983 and 1984, respectively. He also collaborated with George R. R. Martin on a series of themed anthologies including Songs of the Dying Earth, Old Mars, Dangerous Women, and Rogues. In 2011, Dozois was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. He died on May 27, 2018 at the age of 70. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection
- Original publication date
- 1985
- Dedication
- FOR Susan Casper and Christopher Casper
- Disambiguation notice
- This is a different series from Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year (also by Dozois)
Unlike many other volumes of The Year's Best Science Fiction, it was not reprinted in the UK under the Best New SF<... (show all)/b> or The Mammoth Book of Best New SF titles.
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- Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction
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- 813.0876208 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Speculative fiction Science fiction Collections and anthologies Anthologies
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- PS648 .S3 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Collections of American literature Prose (General)
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