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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty Eighth Annual Collection

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Language
  
English

Pages
  
662 pp

Originally published
  
5 July 2011

Publisher
  
St. Martin's Press

3.8/5
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Illustrator
  
Slawek Wojtowicz

Publication date
  
July 5, 2011

ISBN
  
978-0-312-54633-5

Author
  
Gardner Dozois

Country
  
United States of America

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Media type
  
Print (Hardcover and Paperback), eBook

Series
  
The Year's Best Science Fiction

Genres
  
Science Fiction, Anthology

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

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection (ISBN 978-0-312-54633-5) is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published on July 5, 2011. It is the 28th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series. It won the Locus Award for best anthology.

Contents

This anthology was also published in the UK as The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 24.

Contents

The book includes 33 stories, all first published in 2010. The book also includes a summation by Dozois, a brief introduction to each story by Dozois and a referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows:

  • Robert Reed: "A History of Terraforming"
  • Lavie Tidhar: "The Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String"
  • Allen M. Steele: "The Emperor of Mars"
  • Peter Watts: "The Things"
  • Geoffrey A. Landis: "The Sultan of the Clouds"
  • Kage Baker: "The Books"
  • Ian R. MacLeod: "Re-Crossing the Styx"
  • Tad Williams: "And Ministers of Grace"
  • Eleanor Arnason: "Mammoths of the Great Plains"
  • Joe Haldeman: "Sleeping Dogs"
  • Steven Popkes: "Jackie's Boy"
  • Nina Allan: "Flying in the Face of God"
  • Cory Doctorow: "Chicken Little"
  • Yoon Ha Lee: "Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain"
  • Stephen Baxter: "Return to Titan"
  • Damien Broderick: "Under the Moons of Venus"
  • Naomi Novik: "Seven Years from Home"
  • Chris Beckett: "The Peacock Cloak"
  • Carrie Vaughn: "Amaryllis"
  • David Moles: "Seven Cities of Gold"
  • Rachel Swirsky: "Again and Again and Again"
  • Hannu Rajaniemi: "Elegy for a Young Elk"
  • Michael Swanwick: "Libertarian Russia"
  • Lavie Tidhar: "The Night Train"
  • Brenda Cooper: "My Father's Singularity"
  • Jay Lake and Ken Scholes: "The Starship Mechanic"
  • Alastair Reynolds: "Sleepover"
  • Pat Cadigan: "The Taste of Night"
  • Alexander Jablokov: "Blind Cat Dance"
  • Aliette de Bodard: "The Shipmaker"
  • Ted Kosmatka: "In-Fall"
  • Jim Hawkins: "Chimbwi"
  • Robert Reed: "Dead Man's Run"

    • Release details

  • 2011, United States, St. Martin's Press ISBN 978-0-312-54633-5, Pub date July 5, 2011, Hardcover
  • 2011, United States, St. Martin's Griffin ISBN 978-0-312-56950-1, Pub date July 5, 2011, Trade paperback

    • References

    The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection Wikipedia
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