Year's Best SF 3

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

ix * Introduction (Year's Best SF 3) * (1998) * essay by David G. Hartwell

1 * Petting Zoo * (1997) * shortstory by Gene Wolfe

9 * The Wisdom of Old Earth * (1997) * shortstory by Michael Swanwick

23 * The Firefly Tree * (1997) * shortstory by Jack Williamson

29 * Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City * (1997) * shortstory by William Gibson

41 * The Nostalginauts * (1997) * shortstory by Sharon N. Farber [as by S. N. Dyer ]

53 * Guest Law * (1997) * novelette by John C. Wright

77 * The Voice * (1997) * shortstory by Gregory Benford

95 * Yeyuka * (1997) * shortstory by Greg Egan

117 * An Office Romance * (1997) * shortstory by Terry Bisson

135 * Itsy Bitsy Spider * (1997) * shortstory by James Patrick Kelly

151 * Beauty in the Night * (1997) * novelette by Robert Silverberg

197 * Mr. Pale * (1997) * shortstory by Ray Bradbury

205 * The Pipes of Pan * (1997) * novelette by Brian Stableford

233 * Always True to Thee, in My Fashion * (1997) * shortstory by Nancy Kress

249 * Canary Land * (1997) * novelette by Tom Purdom

277 * Universal Emulators * (1997) * shortstory by Tom Cool

295 * Fair Verona * (1997) * novelette by R. Garcia y Robertson

331 * Great Western * (1997) * novelette by Kim Newman

363 * Turnover * (1997) * shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis

369 * The Mendelian Lamp Case * [Dr Phil D'Amato] * (1997) * novelette by Paul Levinson

415 * Kiss Me * (1997) * shortstory by Katherine MacLean

421 * London Bone * (1997) * novelette by Michael Moorcock