Year's Best SF 15

Name: Year's Best SF 15
ISBN: 9780061721755

by · 2010

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Who knows what awaits us tomorrow?

Much of the most innovative and exhilarating work performed in the boundary-less arena of SF is being done in the short form. This year's magnificent harvest—gathered, as always, by acclaimed award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer—offers glimpses of worlds and tomorrows that would have been inconceivable just a few years ago. Brilliant, bold, unusual, and soaring flights into the hitherto unforeseen yet increasingly possible future, Year's Best SF 15offers truly breathtaking stories by some of speculative fiction's brightest lights, including

Stephen Baxter

Nancy Kress

Alastair Reynolds

Geoff Ryman

Bruce Sterling

Peter Watts

Robert Charles Wilson

Gene Wolfe

and others.

Contents

xiii * Introduction (Year's Best SF 15) * essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer

1 * Infinities * (2008) * novelette by Vandana Singh

35 * This Peaceable Land; or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe * (2009) * novelette by Robert Charles Wilson

65 * The Unstrung Zither * (2009) * novelette by Yoon Ha Lee

91 * Black Swan * (2009) * novelette by Bruce Sterling

119 * Exegesis * (2009) * shortstory by Nancy Kress

125 * Erosion * (2009) * shortstory by Ian Creasey

141 * Collision * (2009) * shortstory by Gwyneth Jones

155 * Donovan Sent Us * (2009) * shortstory by Gene Wolfe

173 * The Calculus Plague * (2009) * shortstory by Marissa Lingen [as by Marissa K. Lingen ]

181 * The Island * (2009) * novelette by Peter Watts

222 * One of Our Bastards Is Missing * (2009) * novelette by Paul Cornell

251 * Lady of the White-Spired City * (2009) * shortstory by Sarah L. Edwards

271 * The Highway Code * (2009) * novelette by Brian Stableford

292 * On the Destruction of Copenhagen by the War-Machines of the Merfolk * (2009) * shortstory by Peter M. Ball

299 * The Fixation * (2009) * shortstory by Alastair Reynolds

318 * In Their Garden * (2009) * shortstory by Brenda Cooper

328 * Blocked * (2009) * shortstory by Geoff Ryman

349 * The Last Apostle * (2009) * shortstory by Michael Cassutt

373 * Another Life * (2009) * novelette by Charles Oberndorf

407 * The Consciousness Problem * (2009) * shortstory by Mary Robinette Kowal

427 * Tempest 43 * (2009) * novelette by Stephen Baxter

447 * Bespoke * (2009) * shortstory by Genevieve Valentine

457 * Attitude Adjustment * (2009) * shortstory by Eric James Stone

470 * Edison's Frankenstein * (2009) * novelette by Chris Roberson

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