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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection

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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
1989

Originally published
  
1989

Publisher
  
St. Martin's Press

Language
  
English

Pages
  
612 pp

Author
  
Gardner Dozois

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Series
  
The Year's Best Science Fiction

Media type
  
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)

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

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

Genres
  
Science Fiction, Anthology

Similar
  
Gardner Dozois books, The Year's Best Science Fiction books, Anthology books

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 1989. It is the 6th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series and winner of the Locus Award for best anthology.

Contents

The book includes a 17-page summation by Dozois; 28 stories, all that first appeared in 1988, and each with a two-paragraph introduction by Dozois; and a referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows.

  • Walter Jon Williams:"Surfacing"
  • James Patrick Kelly:"Home Front"
  • Brian Stableford:"The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady"
  • Steven Gould:"Peaches for Mad Molly"
  • Harry Turtledove:"The Last Article"
  • Eileen Gunn:"Stable Strategies for Middle Management"
  • Nancy Kress:"In Memoriam"
  • Mike Resnick:"Kirinyaga," which went on to win a 1989 Hugo award for best short story
  • Bruce McAllister:"The Girl Who Loved Animals"
  • Connie Willis:"The Last of the Winnebagoes," which went on to win a 1989 Hugo award for best novella
  • Lewis Shiner:"Love In Vain"
  • Judith Moffett:"The Hob"
  • Bruce Sterling:"Our Neural Chernobyl"
  • Robert Silverberg:"House of Bones"
  • George Alec Effinger:"Schrodinger's Kitten," which went on to win a 1989 Hugo award for best novelette
  • Howard Waldrop:"Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?"
  • Brian Stableford:"The Growth of the House of Usher"
  • Kim Stanley Robinson:"Glacier"
  • James Lawson:"Sanctuary"
  • Michael Swanwick:"The Dragon Line"
  • John Kessel:"Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner"
  • Stephen Kraus:"Emissary"
  • Pat Cadigan:"It Was the Heat"
  • Kristine Kathryn Rusch:"Skin Deep"
  • D. Alexander Smith:"Dying in Hull"
  • Kathe Koja:"Distances"
  • Kim Newman:"Famous Monsters"
  • Lucius Shepard:"The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter"

    • References

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