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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection

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Cover artist
  
Michael Carroll

Language
  
English

Originally published
  
12 August 2000

Country
  
United States

Media type
  
Print and e-book

Publisher
  
St. Martin's Press

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Author
  
Edited by Gardner Dozois

Publication date
  
2000 July (collecting stories originally published in 1999)

Series
  
The Year's Best Science Fiction

Page count
  
688 (617 of story text; some blank)

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: Seventeenth Annual Collection (ISBN 978-0-312-26417-8) is a science fiction anthology which was compiled by Gardner Dozois and published in 2000. It won the Locus Award for best anthology in 1991.

Contents

Like most of the books in the Year's Best Science Fiction series, the book consists of a "summation" section listing and commenting on developments in and related to science fiction in the previous year (1999), a selection of stories published in that year (each with an introduction by the editor), and a referenced list of honorable mentions from the stories not selected. The stories included in the book are as follows.

  • David Marusek: "The Wedding Album"
  • James Patrick Kelly: "1016 to 1"
  • Robert Reed: "Winemaster"
  • Alastair Reynolds: "Galactic North"
  • Eleanor Arnason: "Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance"
  • Stephen Baxter: "People Came from Earth"
  • Richard Wadholm: "Green Tea"
  • Karl Schroeder: "The Dragon of Pripyat"
  • Chris Lawson: "Written in Blood"
  • Frederik Pohl: "Hatching the Phoenix"
  • M. John Harrison: "Suicide Coast"
  • Sage Walker: "Hunting Mother"
  • Ben Bova: "Mount Olympus"
  • Greg Egan: "Border Guards"
  • Michael Swanwick: "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur"
  • Robert Silverberg: "A Hero of the Empire"
  • Paul J. McAuley: "How We Lost the Moon, A True Story by Frank W. Allen"
  • Charles Sheffield: "Phallicide"
  • Walter Jon Williams: "Daddy's World"
  • Kim Stanley Robinson: "A Martian Romance"
  • Tanith Lee: "The Sky-Green Blues"
  • Hal Clement: "Exchange Rate"
  • Geoff Ryman: "Everywhere"
  • Mike Resnick: "Hothouse Flowers"
  • Sean Williams: "Evermore"
  • Robert Grossbach: "Of Scorned Women and Causal Loops"
  • Kage Baker: "Son Observe the Time"

    • References

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