The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection

by Ian McDonald, Bill Johnson, Ian R. MacLeod, et al.

Book Overview

Gardner Dozois, science fiction's foremost editor, consistently selects the field's best work each year with this showcase anthology. This year's collection presents sterling short stories from... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312187793
• ISBN13: 9780312187798
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 623 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

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This is a down volume for this series, with a well below the norm story average of 3.61. It starts really well, and tails off, including a couple of likely not science fiction candidates like Kessel's Gulliver story - proto sf metafictional background, perhaps, if you like. So, after the start, quite a bit of average and even a couple of below that, with the usual good intro. Year's Best Science Fiction 15 : Beauty in the Night - Robert Silverberg Year's Best Science Fiction 15 : Second Skin - Paul J. McAuley Year's Best Science Fiction 15 : Steamship Soldier on the Information Front - Nancy Kress Year's Best Science Fiction 15 : Reasons to Be Cheerful - Greg Egan Year's Best Science Fiction 15 : Moon Six - Stephen Baxter Year's Best Science Fiction 15 : We Will Drink a Fish Together - Bill Johnson Year's Best Science Fiction 15 : Escape Route - Peter F. Hamilton Year's Best Science Fiction 15 : Itsy Bitsy Spider - James Patrick Kelly Year's Best Science Fiction 15 : A Spy in Europa - Alastair Reynolds Year's Best Science Fiction 15 : The Undiscovered - William Sanders Year's Best Science Fiction 15 : Echoes - Alan Brennert Year's Best Science Fiction 15 : Getting to Know You - David Marusek Year's Best Science Fiction 15 : Balinese Dancer - Gwyneth Jones Year's Best Science Fiction 15 : Marrow - Robert Reed Year's Best Science Fiction 15 : Heart of Whitenesse - Howard Waldrop Year's Best Science Fiction 15 : The Wisdom of Old Earth - Michael Swanwick Year's Best Science Fiction 15 : The Pipes of Pan - Brian M. Stableford Year's Best Science Fiction 15 : Crossing Chao Meng Fu - G. David Nordley Year's Best Science Fiction 15 : Yeyuka - Greg Egan Year's Best Science Fiction 15 : Frost Painting - Carolyn Ives Gilman Year's Best Science Fiction 15 : Lethe - Walter Jon Williams Year's Best Science Fiction 15 : Winter Fire - Geoffrey A. Landis Year's Best Science Fiction 15 : Nevermore - Ian R. MacLeod Year's Best Science Fiction 15 : Open Veins - Simon Ings Year's Best Science Fiction 15 : After Kerry - Ian McDonald Year's Best Science Fiction 15 : The Masque of Agamemnon - Sean Williams and Simon Brown Year's Best Science Fiction 15 : Gulliver at Home - John Kessel Year's Best Science Fiction 15 : A Cold Dry Cradle - Gregory Benford and Elisabeth Malartre Quisling proxy punishment payback. 4 out of 5 Spies sort of like us. 4 out of 5 Reasons to be on the road. 4 out of 5 A boy discovers he has a serious brain tumour, and it was causing him to be amazingly happy. Removed, he becomes despondent, and undergoes a new and extensive treatment eventually, with a form of brain network, to try and get back to a more useful life many years later. 4.5 out of 5 Parallel world accidental stranding. 4 out of 5 Summit society protection detail deal. 4.5 out of 5 Old ship find time shift. 4 out of 5 Girlbot minder actor's filial substitute. 3.5 out of 5 A spy and infiltrator gets a lot more than he wanted, and a mortal shock, when he agr

The title says it all: the *best*

Most of the best science fiction being written today comes in the form of short stories, and this enormous anthology collects them. It's a must-buy for anybody who wants to read the best new SF of the year

terrific stories with a lot of imagination

I look forward every year for this book to come out. This is by far the best science fiction collection. It is a great way to discover authors by reading their short stories in this collection.

The Excellent Series Continues

Dozios continues to find the best Science Fiction. This book is very good and you will not be disappointed.