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Cover artist
  
Kim Poor

Language
  
English

Originally published
  
15 June 1994

Publisher
  
St. Martin's Press


Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
1994

Genre
  
Science Fiction

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Author
  
edited by Gardner Dozois

Series
  
The Year's Best Science Fiction

Preceded by
  
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection

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

Awards
  
Locus Award for Best Anthology

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

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Gardner Dozois, the eleventh volume in an ongoing series. It was first published in hardcover and trade paperback by St. Martin's Press in August 1994, with a book club edition co-issued with the Science Fiction Book Club following in September 1994. The first British edition was published in hardcover by Robinson in October of the same year, under the alternate title The Best New Science Fiction: 8th Annual Collection.

Contents

The book collects twenty-three novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introductory summation of the year, notes and concluding list of honorable mentions by the editor. The stories were previously published in 1993 in various science fiction and other magazines.

Contents

  • "Summation: 1993" (Gardner Dozois)
  • "Papa" (Ian R. MacLeod)
  • "Sacred Cow" (Bruce Sterling)
  • "Dancing on Air" (Nancy Kress)
  • "A Visit to the Farside" (Don Webb)
  • "Alien Bootlegger" (Rebecca Ore)
  • "Death on the Nile" (Connie Willis)
  • "Friendship Bridge" (Brian W. Aldiss)
  • "Into the Miranda Rift" (G. David Nordley)
  • "Mwalimu in the Squared Circle" (Mike Resnick)
  • "Guest of Honor" (Robert Reed)
  • "Love Toys of the Gods" (Pat Cadigan)
  • "Chaff" (Greg Egan)
  • "Georgia on My Mind" (Charles Sheffield)
  • "Cush" (Neal Barrett, Jr.)
  • "On the Collection of Humans" (Mark Rich)
  • "There and Then" (Steven Utley)
  • "The Night We Buried Road Dog" (Jack Cady)
  • "Feedback" (Joe Haldeman)
  • "Lieserl" (Stephen Baxter)
  • "Flashback" (Dan Simmons)
  • "A Child's Christmas in Florida" (William Browning Spencer)
  • "Whispers" (Maureen F. McHugh and David B. Kisor)
  • "Wall, Stone, Craft" (Walter Jon Williams)
  • "Honorable Mentions: 1993" (Gardner Dozois )
  • Awards

    The anthology placed first in the 1995 Locus Poll Award for Best Anthology.

    References

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