Best Science Fiction of the Year 15

Name: Best Science Fiction of the Year 15
ISBN: 9780812532678

by John Crowley, David Zindell, Connie Willis, Karen Joy Fowler, Gregory Benford, Ian Watson, James Tiptree Jr., Michael Bishop, Charles N. Brown, Robert Silverberg, Howard Waldrop, Harry Turtledove, Lucius Shepard · 1986

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Presenting Hugo Award-winner Terry Carr's fifteenth annual selection of the best short science fiction of the year. This all-new collection covers the year 1985, and contains stories by Gregory Benford, Michael Bishop, John Crowley, Karen Joy Fowler, Robert Silverberg, Lucius Shepard, James Tiptree, Jr., Harry Turtledove, Howard Waldrop, Ian Watson, Connie Willis, and David Zindell.

Contents:

* 9 * Introduction (Best SF of the Year 15) * (1986) * essay by Terry Carr

* 13 * Sailing to Byzantium * (1985) * novella by Robert Silverberg

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

* 99 * Bluff * (1985) * novelette by Harry Turtledove

* 130 * A Spanish Lesson * (1985) * novelette by Lucius Shepard

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

* 183 * Shanidar * (1985) * novelette by David Zindell

* 206 * All My Darling Daughters * (1985) * novelette by Connie Willis

* 229 * Of Space-Time and the River * (1985) * novelette by Gregory Benford

* 261 * A Gift from the GrayLanders * (1985) * novelette by Michael Bishop

* 281 * Praxis * (1985) * shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler

* 293 * The People on the Precipice * (1985) * shortstory by Ian Watson

* 306 * The Only Neat Thing to Do * [Rift] * (1985) * novella by James Tiptree, Jr.

* 363 * 1985, the SF Year in Review * (1986) * essay by Charles N. Brown

* 377 * Recommended Reading (Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #15) * (1986) * essay by Terry Carr

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