About this title: For over twenty years THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION has been recognized as the best collection of short science fiction writing in the universe and an essential resource for every science fiction fan. Now, with hundreds of stories and dozens of authors who have gone on to become some of the most esteemed practitioners of the form, Hugo Award-winning editor Gardner Dozois looks back on two decades of stories to bring readers the ultimate science fiction anthology. With such notable authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Michael Swanwick, Bruce Sterling, Connie Willis, Nancy Kress, William Gibson, Greg ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780312336561ISBN:031233656X
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Edition: First Editon 2005
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780312336561ISBN:031233656X
Description: Used-Acceptable. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 655 pp. Book is still a good copy. Shelfwear and curling to cover. Spine is cocked and curling of pages. Ready to go. read more
Edition: First Edition.
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Date Published: February 2005
ISBN-13:9780312336561ISBN:031233656X
Description: Fine. No Jacket as Issued. Used. Anthology with contributors Greg Bear, Gene Wolfe, Nancy Kress, Mike Resnick, Robert Silverberg, Joe Haldeman and many others. 655 pages of science fiction. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780312336561ISBN:031233656X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Date Published: 2/1/2005
ISBN-13:9780312336561ISBN:031233656X
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Edition: Stated First Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Griffin, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780312336561ISBN:031233656X
Description: As New. This 6 x 9 trade paperback book has blue and yellow lettering on the white and red spine and color illustrated cover. With work spanning two decades, The Best of the Best stands as one of the ultimate science fiction anthologies ever published. 655 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with tight binding in As New condition. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Griffin, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2005
Description: Very Good. Advance Reading Copy (ARC) Trade Paperback-Very Good-Advance Reading Copy (ARC). Other than lightest bump to corner of back cover, book is clean and bright. 655 pages. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Griffin
Date Published: 2005-02-01
ISBN-13:9780312336561ISBN:031233656X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780312336561ISBN:031233656X
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780312336561ISBN:031233656X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Students Name on inside cover page; binding shows signs of wear and creasing from use. A small amount of highlight inside text. Some bend pages. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 688 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780312336561ISBN:031233656X
Description: 031233656X. Paperback. Glossy covers. Minimal wear. Clean and tight with slight scuffing. Pasadena's premier and independent new and used bookstore.; B401n; 1.97 x 9.13 x 6.14 Inches; 655 pages. read more
"By its title, this book contains the best of the sci-fi stories from editor Gardner Dozois' series, "The Year's Best Science Fiction." These selections are drawn from the YBSF Volume 1, published in 1984 (& containing stories from 1983) through Volume 20, published in 2003 (& containing stories from 2002). If you think that sci-fi is nothing but tales of monsters, machines, one-dimensional heroes & cardboard villains, & endless chase scenes & too much derring-do, give this book a try. There's more depth & variety to sci-fi than you may expect! Stories can be about anything, from day-to-day contemporary life on earth & elsewhere, to alternate realities, to medical & scientific marvels, to a universe-altering cataclysm a million years from now in the post-human future. The variety is endlessly fascinating! YBSF is a wonderfully entertaining series, full of top-notch sci-fi stories, & in this book, "The Best of the Best," Dozois has intended to select the cream of the crop. Most of the stories have solid plot lines and interesting, well-developed main characters, & in most of them, their authors have created a believable, functioning reality. For the most part, I agree with Dozois' selections, from the superb & tongue-in-cheek stories such as "Bears Discover Fire" (by Terry Bisson), "Even the Queen" (by Connie Willis), "None So Blind" (by Joe Haldeman), & my personal laugh-out-loud favorite, "The Undiscovered," an alternate history tale of Shakespeare by William Sanders. Some stories portray small-village life in other human cultures with great depth & sensitivity, such as the wonderful "Kirinyaga" (by Mike Resnick), set in a future utopian Africa; & "Have Not Have" (by Geoff Ryman), set in a Chinese village in the not-too-distant future. There are alternate reality stories such as the Civil War-era "The Lincoln Train" (by Maureen McHugh). Other stories posit all-too-plausible genetic experimentation, such as the excellent "Blood Music" (by Greg Bear). An odd, chilling, & thought-provoking tale, "The Dead," by Michael Swanwick, describes future biological techniques that create robot-like zombies from human corpses, thereby costing most low-skilled human workers their jobs. I would argue that some other stories from the YBSF series should have been included in this anthology. I missed a great favorite of mine, "Yeyuka" (by Greg Egan); also "The Monkey Treatment" (by George R. R. Martin); plus another wry & witty story by William Sanders, "Going After Old Man Alabama." However, the variety in the stories included in this anthology should enable most sci-fi readers to find it enjoyable. And if you find several of the stories thought-provoking as well (which I did), so much the better!"
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