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(3.39) | None | An annual celebration of the finest short form science fiction of the past year, editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer's Year's Best science fiction anthologies are widely acclaimed and eagerly awaited--and Year's Best SF 15 lives up magnificently to its name! Featuring thrilling new tales by such speculative fiction luminaries as Stephen Baxter, Gene Wolfe, Nancy Kress, Geoff Ryman, Bruce Sterling, and a host of others, Year's Best SF 15 opens the door into a universe of wonders.… (more) |
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▾Book descriptions An annual celebration of the finest short form science fiction of the past year, editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer's Year's Best science fiction anthologies are widely acclaimed and eagerly awaited--and Year's Best SF 15 lives up magnificently to its name! Featuring thrilling new tales by such speculative fiction luminaries as Stephen Baxter, Gene Wolfe, Nancy Kress, Geoff Ryman, Bruce Sterling, and a host of others, Year's Best SF 15 opens the door into a universe of wonders. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Collects 23 stories edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathyrn Cramer with an introduction:
"Infinities" by Vandana Singh
"This Peaceable Land or the Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beacher Stowe" by Robert Charles Wilson
"The Unstrung Zither" by Yoon Ha Lee
"Black Swan" by Bruce Sterling
"Exegesis" by Nancy Kress
"Erosion" by Ian Creasey
"Collision" by Gwyneth Jones
"Donovan Sent Me" by Gene Wolfe
"The Calculus Plague" by Marissa K. Lingen
"The Island" by Peter Watts
"One of Our Bastards Is Missing" by Paul Cornell
"Lady of the White-Spired City" by Sarah L. Edwards
"The Highway Code" by Brian Stableford
"On the Destruction of Copenhagen by the War Machines of the Merfolk" by Peter M. Ball
"The Fixation" by Alastair Reynolds
"In Our Garden" by Brenda Cooper
"Blocked" by Geoff Ryman
"The Last Apostle" by Michael Cassut
"Another Life" by Charles Oberndorf
"The Consciousness Problem" by Mary Robinette Kowal
"Tempest 43" by Stephen Baxter
"Bespoke" by Genevieve Valentine
"Attitude Adjustment" by Eric James Stone
"Edison's Frankenstein" by Chris Roberson  | |
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This latest Year's Best was a real disappointment. I've read them all, and they're generally pretty good.
This one, somehow collected below average for half, and the good half I already read in other venues...
Though that likely indicates at least partially this year's "style" among those who sit in editor chairs. (