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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
2001

Originally published
  
2001

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Language
  
English

Pages
  
617 pp

Publisher
  
St. Martin's Press

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Author
  
Edited by Gardner Dozois

Media type
  
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)

Series
  
The Year's Best Science Fiction

Followed by
  
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection

Genres
  
Science Fiction, Anthology

Awards
  
Locus Award for Best Anthology

Similar
  
The Year's Best Science Fiction books, Science Fiction books

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection (ISBN 0-312-27465-3) is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 2001. It is the 18th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series and won a 2002 Locus Award for best anthology.

Contents

The book includes a 39-page summation by Dozois; 23 stories, all that first appeared in 2000, 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.

  • John Kessel: "The Juniper Tree"
  • Charles Stross: "Antibodies" (also collected in Toast: And Other Rusted Futures)
  • Ursula K. Le Guin: "The Birthday Of the World"
  • Nancy Kress: "Savior"
  • Paul J. McAuley: "Reef"
  • Susan Palwick: "Going After Bobo"
  • Albert E. Cowdrey: "Crux"
  • Severna Park: "The Cure For Everything"
  • Peter F. Hamilton: "The Suspect Genome"
  • Michael Swanwick: "The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-o"
  • Lucius Shepard: "The Radiant Green Star"
  • Alastair Reynolds: "Great Wall of Mars"
  • Eliot Fintushel: "Milo and Sylvie"
  • Brian Stableford: "Snowball In Hell"
  • Stephen Baxter: "On the Orion Line"
  • Greg Egan: "Oracle"
  • Rick Coon and Ernest Hogan: "Obsidian Harvest"
  • Tananarive Due: "Patient Zero"
  • Charles Stross: "A Colder War"
  • Steven Utley: "The Real World"
  • M. Shayne Bell: "The Thing About Benny"
  • Robert Charles Wilson: "The Great Goodbye"
  • Ian McDonald: "Tendeléo's Story"

    • References

    The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection Wikipedia
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