Science Fiction: The Best of 2004

by Walter Jon Williams, Jeff VanderMeer, Jonathan Strahan, et al.

Book Overview

Presents a compelling collection of outstanding science fiction stories, written by some of the world's most acclaimed science fiction authors and selected from magazines, journals, and anthologies to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416504044
• ISBN13: 9781416504047
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: iBooks
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Not Free SF Reader

Another of the iBooks shorter Year's Best SF series. As far as being good goes, there is no doubt the stories are good, with a 3.62 average, but as far as these sort of books goes, that is on the low end of the scale, but similar to the 2002 (a bit lower), that I have already read. Stross and Bacigalupi the standouts. SF Best of 2004 : The Best Christmas Ever - James Patrick Kelly SF Best of 2004 : The Voluntary State - Christopher Rowe SF Best of 2004 : The Lost Pilgrim - Gene Wolfe SF Best of 2004 : Memento Mori - Joe Haldeman SF Best of 2004 : Periandry's Quest - Stephen Baxter SF Best of 2004 : Three Days in a Border Town - Jeff Vandermeer SF Best of 2004 : Elector - Charles Stross SF Best of 2004 : Opal Ball - Robert Reed SF Best of 2004 : My Mother Dancing - Nancy Kress SF Best of 2004 : The People of Sand and Slag - Paolo Bacigalupi SF Best of 2004 : Tourists - M. John Harrison SF Best of 2004 : All of Us Can Almost - Carol Emshwiller SF Best of 2004 : The Tang Dynasty Underwater Pyramid - Walter Jon Williams Santa, a really nice modern handgun and some topline ammo, please. 2.5 out of 5 Southern Somatype. 3 out of 5 Time's myth labours sealed. 4 out of 5 Immortality repair. 3.5 out of 5 Topographic time variation intelligence suppression subservience. 3.5 out of 5 Phantom City familiar feel. 4 out of 5 Manfred and Amber deal with resurrection, resimulation, and the ever changing and rapidly evolving galactic situation. 4.5 out of 5 Expert gambling life. 4 out of 5 Only human. 3.5 out of 5 Immortal ruined future's lack of taste for pets. 4.5 out of 5 Tedious bar life. 3 out of 5 Unlearning to fly. 3 out of 5 Diatom outbreak scuttling solution. 4 out of 5