Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Year's Best Short Science Fiction Novels

Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Year's Best Short Science Fiction Novels
	First edition
Editor	Gardner Dozois
Language	English
Series	The Year's Best Science Fiction
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	St. Martin's Griffin
Publication date	2007
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	642
ISBN	978-0-312-36341-3
OCLC	71173902
Dewey Decimal	813/.0876608 22
LC Class	PS648.S3 B499 2007
Preceded by	Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction

Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Year's Best Short Science Fiction Novels (ISBN 978-0312363413) is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 2007. It is a special edition in The Year's Best Science Fiction series.

The book includes 13 novellas selected by Dozois from among prior annual editions of The Year's Best Science Fiction. Although it is billed as "20 years" of the year's best science fiction, it was actually edited after the 22nd edition of the series. It also includes a three-page preface by Dozois explaining that he set out to edit just one "Best of the Best" volume but found it impossible to do justice to such a task without adding a second volume, to focus on longer works that would have taken too much space away from the first "Best of the Best" installment. Out of 13 authors in the second volume, all but two (Pohl and Reynolds) were also included in the first volume. The stories are as follows.

Robert Silverberg: "Sailing to Byzantium"
Walter Jon Williams: "Surfacing"
Joe Haldeman: "The Hemingway Hoax"
James Patrick Kelly: "Mr. Boy"
Nancy Kress: "Beggars In Spain"
Michael Swanwick: "Griffin's Egg"
Frederik Pohl: "Outnumbering The Dead"
Ursula K. Le Guin: "Forgiveness Day"
Maureen F. McHugh: "The Cost To Be Wise"
Greg Egan: "Oceanic"
Ian McDonald: "Tendeléo's Story"
Ian R. MacLeod: "New Light On The Drake Equation"
Alastair Reynolds: "Turquoise Days"

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