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

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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
2004

Publisher
  
St. Martin's Press

Language
  
English

Originally published
  
2004

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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: Twentieth Annual Collection

Followed by
  
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection

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: Twenty-First Annual Collection (ISBN 978-0-312-32478-0) is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 2004. It is the 21st in The Year's Best Science Fiction series. This anthology was published in the UK as The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction 17.

Contents

The book includes a 28-page summation by Dozois; 29 stories, all that first appeared in 2003, and each with a two-paragraph introduction by Dozois; and an eleven-page referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows:

  • William Barton: "Off On A Starship"
  • John Kessel: "It's All True"
  • Charles Stross: "Rogue Farm"
  • Steven Popkes: "The Ice"
  • Nancy Kress: "Ej-Es"
  • John Varley: "The Bellman"
  • Judith Moffett: "The Bear's Baby"
  • Howard Waldrop: "Calling Your Name"
  • Kristine Kathryn Rusch: "June Sixteenth at Anna's"
  • Walter Jon Williams: "The Green Leapard Plague"
  • Paolo Bacigalupi: "The Fluted Girl"
  • Jack Skillingstead: "Dead Worlds"
  • Michael Swanwick: "King Dragon"
  • Paul Melko: "Singletons In Love"
  • M. Shayne Bell: "Anomalous Structures Of My Dreams"
  • Vernor Vinge: "The Cookie Monster"
  • Harry Turtledove: "Joe Steele"
  • Geoff Ryman: "Birth Days"
  • John C. Wright: "Awake In the Night"
  • James Van Pelt: "The Long Way Home"
  • Geoffrey A. Landis: "The Eyes Of America"
  • Kage Baker: "Welcome To Olympus, Mr. Hearst"
  • Robert Reed: "Night Of Time"
  • William Shunn: "Strong Medicine"
  • Dominic Green: "Send Me a Mentagram"
  • Paul Di Filippo: "And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon"
  • Terry Dowling: "Flashmen"
  • Nick DiChario: "Dragonhead"
  • Terry Bisson: "Dear Abbey"

    • References

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