Year's Best SF 13

Name: Year's Best SF 13
ISBN: 9780061252099

by · 2008

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The thirteenth annual collection of the previous year's finest short-form sf is at hand. Once again, award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer have gathered together a stunning array of science fiction that spans a veritable universe of astonishing visions and bold ideas. Hitherto unexplored galaxies of the mind are courageously traversed by some of the most exciting new talents in the field—while well-established masters rocket to remarkable new heights of artistry and originality. The stars are closer and more breathtaking than ever before—and a miraculous future now rests in your hands—within the pages of Year's Best SF 13.

Contents

xi * Introduction (Year's Best SF 13) * (2008) * essay by Kathryn Cramer and David G. Hartwell

1 * Baby Doll * (2007) * novelette by Johanna Sinisalo (trans. of Baby Doll (in Finnish) 2002)

27 * Aristotle OS * (2007) * shortstory by Tony Ballantyne

41 * The Last American * (2007) * shortstory by John Kessel

60 * Memorare * (2007) * novella by Gene Wolfe

143 * Plotters and Shooters * (2007) * novelette by Kage Baker

164 * Repeating the Past * (2007) * shortstory by Peter Watts

168 * No More Stories * (2007) * shortstory by Stephen Baxter

185 * They Came from the Future * (2007) * poem by Robyn Hitchcock

189 * The Tomb Wife * (2007) * shortstory by Gwyneth Jones

207 * An Evening's Honest Peril * (2007) * novelette by Marc Laidlaw

229 * End Game * (2007) * shortstory by Nancy Kress

244 * Induction * (2007) * shortstory by Greg Egan

261 * A Blue and Cloudless Sky * (2007) * novelette by Bernhard Ribbeck (trans. of En bla og skyfri himmel 1996)

299 * Reasons not to Publish * (2007) * shortstory by Gregory Benford

304 * Objective Impermeability in a Closed System * (2007) * shortstory by William Shunn

319 * Always * (2007) * shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler

334 * Who's Afraid of Wolf 359? * (2007) * shortstory by Ken MacLeod

349 * Artifice and Intelligence * (2007) * shortstory by Tim Pratt

359 * Pirates of the Somali Coast * (2007) * shortstory by Terry Bisson

375 * Sanjeev and Robotwallah * [India 2047] * (2007) * shortstory by Ian McDonald

395 * Third Person * (2007) * shortstory by Tony Ballantyne

413 * The Bridge * (2007) * novelette by Kathleen Ann Goonan

443 * As You Know, Bob * (2007) * shortstory by John G. Hemry [as by John Hemry ]

453 * The Lustration * (2007) * novelette by Bruce Sterling

474 * How Music Begins * (2007) * novelette by James Van Pelt

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