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Language
  
English

Pages
  
623 pp

Publisher
  
St. Martin's Press

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Publication date
  
1998

Originally published
  
1998

Country
  
United States of America

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Author
  
Edited by Gardner Dozois

Series
  
The Year's Best Science Fiction

Media type
  
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)

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

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

Genres
  
Science Fiction, Anthology

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

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

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

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