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

by William Barton, Paul Melko, M. Shayne Bell, Vernor Vinge, Harry Turtledove, Geoff Ryman, John C. Wright, James Van Pelt, Geoffrey A. Landis, Kage Baker, Robert Reed, John Kessel, William Shunn, Dominic Green, Paul Di Filippo, Terry Dowling, Nicholas A. DiChario, Terry Bisson, John Varley, Judith Moffett, Howard Waldrop, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Charles Stross, Steven Popkes, Nancy Kress, Walter Jon Williams, Paolo Bacigalupi, Jack Skillingstead, Michael Swanwick · 2004

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The stories in this collection imaginatively take readers far across the universe, into the very core of their beings, to the realm of the Gods, and to the moment just after now. Included are the works of masters of the form and the bright new talents of tomorrow. This book is 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.

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