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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection

The twenty-eight stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now.  Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including:

* Cory Doctorow * Robert Charles Wilson * Michael Swanwick * Ian McDonald * Benjamin Rosenbaum * Kage Baker * Bruce McAllister * Alastair Reynolds * Jay Lake * Ruth Nestvold * Gregory Benford * Justin Stanchfield * Walter Jon Williams * Greg Van Eekhout * Robert Reed * David D. Levine * Paul J. McAuley * Mary Rosenblum * Daryl Gregory * Jack Skillingstead * Paolo Bacigalupi * Greg Egan * Elizabeth Bear * Sarah Monette * Ken MacLeod * Stephen Baxter * Carolyn Ives Gilman * John Barnes * A.M. Dellamonica

Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

Contents

xiii • Summation: 2006 • (2007) • essay by Gardner Dozois

1 • I, Row-Boat • (2006) • novelette by Cory Doctorow

28 • Julian: A Christmas Story • (2006) • novella by Robert Charles Wilson

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

81 • The Djinn's Wife • [India 2047] • (2006) • novelette by Ian McDonald

112 • The House Beyond Your Sky • (2006) • shortstory by Benjamin Rosenbaum

121 • Where the Golden Apples Grow • (2006) • novella by Kage Baker

164 • Kin • (2006) • shortstory by Bruce McAllister

172 • Signal to Noise • (2006) • novelette by Alastair Reynolds

204 • The Big Ice • (2006) • shortstory by Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold

221 • Bow Shock • (2006) • novelette by Gregory Benford

251 • In the River • (2006) • shortstory by Justin Stanchfield

266 • Incarnation Day • (2006) • novella by Walter Jon Williams

295 • Far As You Can Go • (2006) • shortstory by Greg van Eekhout

305 • Good Mountain • (2005) • novella by Robert Reed

350 • I Hold My Father's Paws • (2006) • shortstory by David D. Levine

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

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

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

418 • Life on the Preservation • (2006) • shortstory by Jack Skillingstead

431 • Yellow Card Man • [The Windup Universe] • (2006) • novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi

457 • Riding the Crocodile • (2005) • novella by Greg Egan

492 • The Ile of Dogges • (2006) • shortstory by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette

499 • The Highway Men • (2006) • novelette by Ken MacLeod

524 • The Pacific Mystery • (2006) • shortstory by Stephen Baxter

540 • Okanoggan Falls • (2006) • novelette by Carolyn Ives Gilman

566 • Every Hole Is Outlined • (2006) • novelette by John Barnes

589 • The Town on Blighted Sea • (2006) • shortstory by A. M. Dellamonica

606 • Nightingale • [Revelation Space] • (2006) • novella by Alastair Reynolds

653 • Honorable Mentions: 2006 • (2007) • essay by Gardner Dozois

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 704
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-312-36334-5
  • EAN
  • 9780312363345
  • Genres
  • fiction, anthologies, collections
  • Release date
  • 2007