About this title: The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow blurring the line between life and art. Now, in "The Year's Best Science Fiction Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection" the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world.This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Silverberg, ian McDonald, Stephen Baxter, Michael Swanwick, Paolo Bacigalupi, Kage Baker, Elizabeth Bear, Alastair Reynolds, and Greg Egan. And with an extensive must read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780312378608ISBN:0312378602
Description: Acceptable. A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (the dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. ******PLEASE NOTE****** Orders placed after Dec. 7 cannot be guaranteed delivery before Christmas unless you select EXPEDITED shipping! Thank you & Happy Holidays! read more
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Description: Fine. ISBN: 0312378602; Pub. : St. Martin's Griffin; Pub. Date: 2008-07-08; Media: Paperback; Weight: 28 oz.; Excellent condition. Just a shade below like new. Covers have sharp edges. Surfaces of covers are glossy. Surfaces of covers are unmarred. Binding is tight. Pages have no marks, writing or highlighting. ISBN: 0312378602; Pub. : St. Martin's Griffin; Pub. Date: 2008-07-08; Media: Paperback; Weight: 28 oz.; Excellent condition. Just a shade below like new. Covers have sharp edges. ... read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Griffin, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780312378608ISBN:0312378602
Description: Very Good. Cover has marks, bumping-Bumped pgs-Marks on edge-Small tears on edges of first few pgs-Light wear overall, nice copy. read more
Binding: book Softcover
Publisher: Griffin
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780312378608ISBN:0312378602
Description: Brand New. Brand new. Never read or owned. May have a remainder mark. 652 pages. 9.30 x 6.50 x 1.80 in. 28.0 oz. Series: Year's Best Science Fiction. The latest edition of the critically acclaimed annual anthology collects a broad spectrum of outstanding science fiction tales written during the previous year, including contributions by Stephen Baxter, Ian McDonald, Kage Baker, Alastair Reynolds, Elizabeth Bear, and other talented masters of the genre, along with a recommended reading guide and ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Griffin
Date Published: 2008-07-08
ISBN-13:9780312378608ISBN:0312378602
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780312378608ISBN:0312378602
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, New York
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780312378592ISBN:0312378599
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. This book has a red dj with white lettering and a color cover illustration. Very clean, bright, unmarked, tight copy. This science-fiction anthology has short stories by Ken MacLeod, Robert Silverberg, Ted Chiang, Bruce Sterling, Michael Swanwick, Gregory Benford and others. 652 pages; approx. 6"x8". read more
Description: Good. Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas. read more
"Good to great stories. When I first started reading Sci-Fi there were no female writers out there, at least that I knew of. That has obviously changed. The stories they write bring a welcome new dimension to the genre."
"Several very good stories there, many good ones. One or two I didn't really enjoy, but it's a question of taste. This isn't called Year's Best Science Fiction for nothing."
"It's really fun to be reading science fiction written in the last five years, since so much of our real-life experience of technology has changed in the Internet era.
A few thoughts on what I've read so far...
I'm struck by the manner in which science fiction has both anticipated and reinforced the computer age. To me, sci fi has always been about the excitement of technology, taking what it presently enables and adding imagination to speculate on where it might take us in the future.
In 1950 the vision was space flight and flying cars. These days, the Internet seems a huge influence on the science fiction imagination. Several of the short stories I've read imagine a future of impossibly dense worlds of information and virtual experience: virtual selves gone rogue and replicating themselves infinitely, worlds within worlds, and the chance to "download" your consciousness into different selves in each of them--a kind of immortality. These traits alone tie back to the "copy and paste" world of everyday computing, and the avatars and virtual realities of Second Life, Halo, or World of Warcraft.
As mentioned before, it's fun to see our present life now cast forward into the future, a telescoping imagination of what might be."
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