The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction

With work spanning two decades, The Best of the Best stands as one of the ultimate science fiction anthologies ever published.

Contents

xi * Foreword (The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction) * essay by Robert Silverberg

xvii * Preface (The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction) * essay by Gardner Dozois

1 * Blood Music * (1983) * novelette by Greg Bear

19 * A Cabin on the Coast * (1984) * shortstory by Gene Wolfe

28 * Salvador * (1984) * shortstory by Lucius Shepard

42 * Trinity * (1984) * novella by Nancy Kress

78 * Flying Saucer Rock and Roll * (1985) * novelette by Howard Waldrop (aka Flying Saucer Rock & Roll)

93 * Dinner in Audoghast * (1985) * shortstory by Bruce Sterling

103 * Roadside Rescue * (1985) * shortstory by Pat Cadigan

109 * Snow * (1985) * shortstory by John Crowley

121 * The Winter Market * (1985) * novelette by William Gibson

137 * The Pure Product * (1986) * novelette by John Kessel

152 * Stable Strategies for Middle Management * (1988) * shortstory by Eileen Gunn

162 * Kirinyaga * [Kirinyaga * 2] * (1988) * novelette by Mike Resnick

177 * Tales from the Venia Woods * [Roma Eterna] * (1989) * shortstory by Robert Silverberg

191 * Bears Discover Fire * (1990) * shortstory by Terry Bisson

199 * Even the Queen * (1992) * shortstory by Connie Willis

213 * Guest of Honor * (1993) * novelette by Robert Reed

238 * None So Blind * (1994) * shortstory by Joe Haldeman

246 * Mortimer Gray's History of Death * (1995) * novella by Brian Stableford (aka Mortimer Gray's "History of Death")

293 * The Lincoln Train * (1995) * shortstory by Maureen F. McHugh

303 * Wang's Carpets * (1995) * novelette by Greg Egan

328 * Coming of Age in Karhide * [Hainish] * (1995) * novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin

342 * The Dead * (1996) * shortstory by Michael Swanwick

352 * Recording Angel * (1996) * shortstory by Ian McDonald

363 * A Dry, Quiet War * (1996) * novelette by Tony Daniel

380 * The Undiscovered * (1997) * novelette by William Sanders

400 * Second Skin * (1997) * shortstory by Paul J. McAuley

418 * Story of Your Life * (1998) * novella by Ted Chiang

454 * People Came from Earth * (1999) * shortstory by Stephen Baxter

464 * The Wedding Album * [Cathy] * (1999) * novella by David Marusek

502 * 10 to 16 to 1 * (1999) * novelette by James Patrick Kelly (aka 1016 to 1)

520 * Daddy's World * (1999) * novelette by Walter Jon Williams

541 * The Real World * [Silurian Tales] * (2000) * shortstory by Steven Utley

561 * Have Not Have * (2001) * novelette by Geoff Ryman

577 * Lobsters * [Macx Family] * (2001) * novelette by Charles Stross

597 * Breathmoss * (2002) * novella by Ian R. MacLeod

647 * Lambing Season * (2002) * shortstory by Molly Gloss