The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection
by Gardner Dozois (Editor)
Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction (13), Dozois Year's Best Science Fiction (17)
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In science fiction's early days, stories often looked past 1984 to the year 2000 as the far unknowable future. Here now, on the brink of the twenty-first century, the future remains as distant and as unknowable as ever...and science fiction stories continue to explore it with delightful results: Collected in this anthology are such imaginative gems as: "The Wedding Album" by David Marusek. In a high-tech future, the line between reality and simulation has grown thin...and it's often hard to show more tell who's on what side. "Everywhere" by Geoff Ryman. Do the people who live in utopian conditions ever recognize them as such? "Hatching the Phoenix" by Frederik Pohl. One of science fiction's Grand Masters returns with a star-crossing tale of the Heechee, the enigmatic, vanished aliens whose discarded technology guides mankind through the future. "A Hero of the Empire" by Robert Silverberg. Showing that the past is as much a province of the imagination as the future, this novelette returns to an alternate history when the Roman Empire never fell to show us just how the course of history can be altered. The twenty-seven stories in this collection imaginatively take us to nearby planets and distant futures, into the past and into universes no larger than a grain of sand. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents. Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart. show lessTags
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A pretty god collection highlighted by a great short story, "The Wedding Album" by David Marusek.
Book Description: St. Martins Press, 2000 No Jacket. First Edition. First printing, trade paperback.
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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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Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction
29 works (13)
Dozois Year's Best Science Fiction
35 works (17)
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Mammoth Books (Mammoth Books 233)
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- The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection
- Original title
- The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection
- Original publication date
- 2000
- Disambiguation notice
- This is a different series from Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year (also by Dozois)
Reprinted as The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 13 in the UK.
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- Science Fiction, Fiction and Literature
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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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