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Year's Best SF 13

The thirteenth annual collection of the previous year's finest short-form sf is at hand. Once again, award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer have gathered together a stunning array of science fiction that spans a veritable universe of astonishing visions and bold ideas. Hitherto unexplored galaxies of the mind are courageously traversed by some of the most exciting new talents in the field — while well-established masters rocket to remarkable new heights of artistry and originality. The stars are closer and more breathtaking than ever before — and a miraculous future now rests in your hands — within the pages of Year's Best SF 13.

Contents

xi • Introduction (Year's Best SF 13) • (2008) • essay by Kathryn Cramer and David G. Hartwell

1 • Baby Doll • (2007) • novelette by Johanna Sinisalo (trans. of Baby Doll (in Finnish) 2002)

27 • Aristotle OS • (2007) • shortstory by Tony Ballantyne

41 • The Last American • (2007) • shortstory by John Kessel

60 • Memorare • (2007) • novella by Gene Wolfe

143 • Plotters and Shooters • (2007) • novelette by Kage Baker

164 • Repeating the Past • (2007) • shortstory by Peter Watts

168 • No More Stories • (2007) • shortstory by Stephen Baxter

185 • They Came from the Future • (2007) • poem by Robyn Hitchcock

189 • The Tomb Wife • (2007) • shortstory by Gwyneth Jones

207 • An Evening's Honest Peril • (2007) • novelette by Marc Laidlaw

229 • End Game • (2007) • shortstory by Nancy Kress

244 • Induction • (2007) • shortstory by Greg Egan

261 • A Blue and Cloudless Sky • (2007) • novelette by Bernhard Ribbeck (trans. of En blå og skyfri himmel 1996)

299 • Reasons not to Publish • (2007) • shortstory by Gregory Benford

304 • Objective Impermeability in a Closed System • (2007) • shortstory by William Shunn

319 • Always • (2007) • shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler

334 • Who's Afraid of Wolf 359? • (2007) • shortstory by Ken MacLeod

349 • Artifice and Intelligence • (2007) • shortstory by Tim Pratt

359 • Pirates of the Somali Coast • (2007) • shortstory by Terry Bisson

375 • Sanjeev and Robotwallah • [India 2047] • (2007) • shortstory by Ian McDonald

395 • Third Person • (2007) • shortstory by Tony Ballantyne

413 • The Bridge • (2007) • novelette by Kathleen Ann Goonan

443 • As You Know, Bob • (2007) • shortstory by John G. Hemry [as by John Hemry ]

453 • The Lustration • (2007) • novelette by Bruce Sterling

474 • How Music Begins • (2007) • novelette by James Van Pelt

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 512
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-06-125209-9
  • EAN
  • 9780061252099
  • Genres
  • fiction, anthologies
  • Release date
  • 2008