The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection
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| Editor | Gardner Dozois |
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| Language | English |
| Series | The Year's Best Science Fiction |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | St. Martin's Griffin |
Publication date | 1998 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover & trade paperback) |
| Pages | 623 pp |
| ISBN | 9780312187798 (hardcover) ISBN 9780312190330 (trade paperback) |
| OCLC | 39397318 |
| Preceded by | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection |
| Followed by | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 1999. It is the 15th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series.
Contents
[edit]The book includes a 49-page summation by Dozois; 28 stories, all that first appeared in 1997, and each with a two-paragraph introduction by Dozois; and a seven-page referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows.
- Robert Silverberg: "Beauty in the Night"
- Paul J. McAuley: "Second Skin"
- Nancy Kress: "Steamship Soldier on the Information Front"
- Greg Egan: "Reasons to Be Cheerful"
- Stephen Baxter: "Moon Six"
- Bill Johnson: "We Will Drink a Fish Together..."
- Peter F. Hamilton: "Escape Route"
- James Patrick Kelly: "Itsy Bitsy Spider"
- Alastair Reynolds: "A Spy in Europa"
- William Sanders: "The Undiscovered"
- Alan Brennert: "Echoes"
- David Marusek: "Getting to Know You"
- Gwyneth Jones: "Balinese Dancer"
- Robert Reed: "Marrow"
- Howard Waldrop: "Heart of Whitenesse"
- Michael Swanwick: "The Wisdom of Old Earth"
- Brian Stableford: "The Pipes of Pan"
- G. David Nordley: "Crossing Chao Meng Fu"
- Greg Egan: "Yeyuka"
- Carolyn Ives Gilman: "Frost Painting"
- Walter Jon Williams: "Lethe"
- Geoffrey A. Landis: "Winter Fire"
- Ian R. MacLeod: "Nevermore"
- Simon Ings: "Open Veins"
- Ian McDonald: "After Kerry"
- Sean Williams and Simon Brown: "The Masque of Agamemnon"
- John Kessel: "Gulliver at Home"
- Gregory Benford and Elisabeth Malartre: "A Cold Dry Cradle"
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Story synapses by Brian Davies (scroll down)
- Review of Fifteenth Annual by Steven H. Silver