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Year's Best SF 12

A banner year for bold, provocative, brilliantly inventive science fiction has produced some of the most enthrallingly original short sf since the genre's conception. In their twelfth remarkable collection of the very best of the last twelve months, award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer present amazing stories of galaxy-shaking events, alien contact, utopian science, and technology run amok: tales that celebrate the continually evolving literary artistry of some of the form's finest, most respected practitioners ... while showcasing the magnificent talents of the science fiction superstars of the near future.

Contents

viii • Acknowledgments (Year's Best SF 12) • essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer

ix • Introduction (Year's Best SF 12) • essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer

1 • Nano Comes to Clifford Falls • (2006) • shortstory by Nancy Kress

21 • Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? • (2006) • shortstory by Terry Bisson

33 • When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth • (2006) • novelette by Cory Doctorow

74 • Just Do It! • (2006) • shortstory by Heather Lindsley

89 • Counterfactual • (2006) • novelette by Gardner Dozois [as by Gardner R. Dozois ]

111 • Moon Does Run • (2006) • shortstory by Edd Vick

124 • Home Movies • (2006) • novelette by Mary Rosenblum

157 • Chu and the Nants • (2006) • shortstory by Rudy Rucker

174 • Silence in Florence • (2006) • shortstory by Ian Creasey

188 • The Women of Our Occupation • (2006) • shortstory by Kameron Hurley

197 • This Is the Ice Age • (2006) • shortstory by Claude Lalumière

210 • Speak, Geek • (2006) • shortstory by Eileen Gunn

214 • Expedition, with Recipes • (2006) • shortstory by Joe Haldeman

221 • The Age of Ice • (2006) • shortstory by Liz Williams

233 • Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth • (2006) • novella by Michael F. Flynn [as by Michael Flynn ]

282 • Applied Mathematical Theology • (2006) • shortstory by Gregory Benford

286 • Quill • (2006) • novelette by Carol Emshwiller

313 • Tiger, Burning • (2006) • novelette by Alastair Reynolds

342 • Dead Men Walking • (2006) • novelette by Paul J. McAuley

364 • Damascus • (2006) • novelette by Daryl Gregory

399 • Tin Marsh • (2006) • novelette by Michael Swanwick

421 • Taking Good Care of Myself • (2006) • shortstory by Ian R. MacLeod

425 • The Lowland Expedition • [Old Earth] • (2006) • shortstory by Stephen Baxter

444 • Heisenberg Elementary • (2006) • shortstory by Wil McCarthy

449 • Rwanda • (2006) • shortstory by Robert Reed

459 • Preemption • (2006) • shortstory by Charlie Rosenkrantz

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 496
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-06-125208-2
  • EAN
  • 9780061252082
  • Genres
  • anthologies, fiction, collections
  • Release date
  • 2007