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4.2/5 Language English Pages 655 pp Publisher St. Martin's Press | 4.2/5 Country United States Publication date 2005 Originally published 2005 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Author Genres Anthology, Science Fiction Similar The Year's Best Science Fiction books, Science Fiction books |
Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction (ISBN 978-0-312-33656-1) is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 2005. It is a special edition in The Year's Best Science Fiction series.
Contents
The book includes a 5-page foreword by Robert Silverberg, a 3-page preface by Dozois, and 36 stories 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 21st edition of the series, and the editor selected from among all 21 editions. The stories are as follows.
The UK edition, titled The Mammoth Book of The Best of The Best New SF included three additional stories at the end of the book: