The Year's Best SF 5 (Year's Best SF (Science Fiction))
The Year's Best SF 5 (Year's Best SF (Science Fiction))
David G. Hartwell
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Experience New RealmsAcclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell returns with this fifth annual collection of the year's most imaginative, entertaining, and mind-expanding science fiction.Here are works from some of today's most acclaimed authors, as well as visionary new talents, that will introduce you to new ideas, offer unusual perspectives, and take you to places beyond your wildest imaginings. Contents xiii • Introduction (Year's Best SF 5) • (2000) • essay by David G. Hartwell 1 • Everywhere • (1999) • shortstory by Geoff Ryman 14 • Evolution Never Sleeps • (1999) • shortstory by Elisabeth Malartre 36 • Sexual Dimorphism • (1999) • shortstory by Kim Stanley Robinson 57 • Game of the Century • (1999) • novelette by Robert Reed 94 • Secrets of the Alien Reliquary • (1998) • poem by Michael Bishop 97 • Kinds of Strangers • (1999) • novelette by Sarah Zettel 124 • Visit the Sins • (1999) • shortstory by Cory Doctorow 145 • Border Guards • (1999) • novelette by Greg Egan 174 • Macs • (1999) • shortstory by Terry Bisson (aka macs) 186 • Written in Blood • (1999) • shortstory by Chris Lawson 204 • Has Anybody Seen Junie Moon? • (1999) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe 222 • The Blue Planet • (1999) • shortstory by Robert J. Sawyer 229 • Lifework • (1999) • shortstory by Mary Soon Lee 238 • Rosetta Stone • (2000) • shortstory by Fred Lerner 255 • An Apollo Asteroid • (1999) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss 271 • 100 Candles • (1999) • shortstory by Kurt Wohleber 288 • Democritus' Violin • (1999) • shortstory by G. David Nordley 311 • Fossil Games • (1999) • novelette by Tom Purdom 362 • Valour • (1999) • shortstory by Chris Beckett 379 • Huddle • [Manifold] • (1999) • novelette by Stephen Baxter 404 • Ashes and Tombstones • (1999) • shortstory by Brian Stableford [as by Brian M. Stableford ] 422 • Ancient Engines • (1999) • shortstory by Michael Swanwick 433 • Freckled Figure • (1992) • shortstory by Hiroe Suga 457 • Shiva • (1999) • shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg 466 • The Queen of Erewhon • (1999) • novelette by Lucy Sussex
Experience New RealmsAcclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell returns with this fifth annual collection of the year's most imaginative, entertaining, and mind-expanding science fiction.Here are works from some of today's most acclaimed authors, as well as visionary new talents, that will introduce you to new ideas, offer unusual perspectives, and take you to places beyond your wildest imaginings. Contents xiii • Introduction (Year's Best SF 5) • (2000) • essay by David G. Hartwell 1 • Everywhere • (1999) • shortstory by Geoff Ryman 14 • Evolution Never Sleeps • (1999) • shortstory by Elisabeth Malartre 36 • Sexual Dimorphism • (1999) • shortstory by Kim Stanley Robinson 57 • Game of the Century • (1999) • novelette by Robert Reed 94 • Secrets of the Alien Reliquary • (1998) • poem by Michael Bishop 97 • Kinds of Strangers • (1999) • novelette by Sarah Zettel 124 • Visit the Sins • (1999) • shortstory by Cory Doctorow 145 • Border Guards • (1999) • novelette by Greg Egan 174 • Macs • (1999) • shortstory by Terry Bisson (aka macs) 186 • Written in Blood • (1999) • shortstory by Chris Lawson 204 • Has Anybody Seen Junie Moon? • (1999) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe 222 • The Blue Planet • (1999) • shortstory by Robert J. Sawyer 229 • Lifework • (1999) • shortstory by Mary Soon Lee 238 • Rosetta Stone • (2000) • shortstory by Fred Lerner 255 • An Apollo Asteroid • (1999) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss 271 • 100 Candles • (1999) • shortstory by Kurt Wohleber 288 • Democritus' Violin • (1999) • shortstory by G. David Nordley 311 • Fossil Games • (1999) • novelette by Tom Purdom 362 • Valour • (1999) • shortstory by Chris Beckett 379 • Huddle • [Manifold] • (1999) • novelette by Stephen Baxter 404 • Ashes and Tombstones • (1999) • shortstory by Brian Stableford [as by Brian M. Stableford ] 422 • Ancient Engines • (1999) • shortstory by Michael Swanwick 433 • Freckled Figure • (1992) • shortstory by Hiroe Suga 457 • Shiva • (1999) • shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg 466 • The Queen of Erewhon • (1999) • novelette by Lucy Sussex
Chris Beckett
Chris Beckett is a British social worker, university lecturer, and science fiction author.Beckett was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and Bryanston School in Dorset, England. He holds a BSc...
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