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Language
  
English

Pages
  
609 pp

Publisher
  
St. Martin's Press

Editor
  
Gardner Dozois

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Publication date
  
1999

Originally published
  
1999

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: Fifteenth Annual Collection

Genres
  
Science Fiction, Anthology

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

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection (ISBN 978-0312204457) is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 1999. It is the 16th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series.

Contents

The book includes a 49-page summation by Dozois; 25 stories, all that first appeared in 1998, 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.

  • Greg Egan: "Oceanic"
  • Geoffrey A. Landis: "Approaching Perimelasma"
  • Cory Doctorow: "Craphound"
  • Tanith Lee: "Jedella Ghost"
  • Bruce Sterling: "Taklamakan"
  • Ursula K. Le Guin: "The Island Of the Immortals"
  • Paul J. McAuley: "Sea Change, With Monsters"
  • Robert Charles Wilson: "Divided By Infinity"
  • Howard Waldrop: "US"
  • Ian McDonald: "The Days Of Solomon Gursky"
  • Robert Reed: "The Cuckoo's Boys"
  • William Browning Spencer: "The Halfway House At the Heart Of Darkness"
  • Michael Swanwick: "The Very Pulse of the Machine"
  • Ted Chiang: "Story Of Your Life"
  • Liz Williams: "Voivodoi"
  • Stephen Baxter: "Saddlepoint: Roughneck"
  • Rob Chilson: "This Side Of Independence"
  • Chris Lawson: "Unborn Again"
  • Tony Daniel: "Grist"
  • Gwyneth Jones: "La Cenerentola"
  • William Barton: "Down In the Dark"
  • Jim Grimsley: "Free In Asveroth"
  • Cherry Wilder: "The Dancing Floor"
  • Ian R. MacLeod: "The Summer Isles"

    • References

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