Year's Best SF 7Harper Collins, 2009 M10 13 - 512 pages Once again, the year's finest flights of speculative imagination are gathered in one extraordinary volume, compiled by acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell. From some of the most renowned visionaries of contemporary SF -- as well as new writers who are already making an indelible mark -- comes an all-new compendium of unparalleled tales of the possible that will enthrall, astonish, terrify, and elate. Stories of strange worlds and mind-boggling futures, of awesome discoveries and apocalyptic disasters, of universes light years distant and deep within the human consciousness, are collected here as SF's brightest lights shine more radiantly than ever before. |
Contents
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Terry Bisson | 53 |
Richard Chwedyk | 77 |
The Measure of All Things | 99 |
Russian Vine | 105 |
Michael Swanwick | 121 |
Edward M Lerner | 140 |
Creative Destruction | 159 |
Ursula K Le Guin | 254 |
Gray Earth | 267 |
Terry Dowling | 284 |
The Lagan Fishers | 299 |
Lisa Goldstein | 323 |
Gene Wolfe | 347 |
Gregory Benford | 396 |
Alastair Reynolds | 410 |
David Morrell | 186 |
James Morrow | 209 |
Michael Swanwick | 234 |
Glacial | 431 |
James Patrick Kelly | 462 |
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