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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection

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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
1987

Publisher
  
St. Martin's Press

4/5
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Language
  
English

Originally published
  
May 1987

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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: Third Annual Collection

Followed by
  
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth 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: Fourth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in May 1987. It is the 4th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series. Cover art was by Alan Gutierrez. It won the Locus Award for best anthology.

It was also published in the UK as The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction, the first UK edition of the series.

Contents

The book includes stories, all first published in 1986. 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:

  • ix • Introduction: Summation: 1986 • essay by Gardner Dozois
  • 1 • R & R • (1986) • novella by Lucius Shepard
  • 67 • Hatrack River [The Alvin Maker Saga] • (1986) • novelette by Orson Scott Card
  • 91 • Strangers on Paradise • (1986) • short story by Damon Knight (variant of Strangers in Paradise)
  • 105 • Pretty Boy Crossover • (1986) • short story by Pat Cadigan
  • 115 • Against Babylon • (1986) • novelette by Robert Silverberg
  • 133 • Fiddling for Waterbuffaloes • (1986) • novelette by S. P. Somtow [as by Somtow Sucharitkul ]
  • 155 • Into Gold • (1986) • novelette by Tanith Lee
  • 181 • Sea Change • (1986) • short story by Scott Baker
  • 198 • Covenant of Souls • (1986) • novelette by Michael Swanwick
  • 229 • The Pure Product • (1986) • novelette by John Kessel
  • 247 • Grave Angels • (1986) • novelette by Richard Kearns
  • 274 • Tangents • (1986) • short story by Greg Bear
  • 289 • The Beautiful and the Sublime • (1986) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
  • 314 • Tattoos • (1986) • novelette by Jack Dann
  • 333 • Night Moves • (1986) • novelette by Tim Powers
  • 352 • The Prisoner of Chillon • (1986) • novelette by James Patrick Kelly
  • 384 • Chance • (1986) • novelette by Connie Willis
  • 411 • And so to Bed • (1986) • short story by Harry Turtledove
  • 425 • Fair Game • (1986) • novelette by Howard Waldrop
  • 439 • Video Star • (1986) • novelette by Walter Jon Williams
  • 469 • Sallie C. • (1986) • short story by Neal Barrett, Jr.
  • 490 • Jeff Beck • (1986) • short story by Lewis Shiner
  • 499 • Surviving • (1986) • novelette by Judith Moffett
  • 529 • Down and Out in the Year 2000 • (1986) • short story by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • 544 • Snake-Eyes • (1986) • short story by Tom Maddox
  • 562 • The Gate of Ghosts • (1986) • novelette by Karen Joy Fowler
  • 581 • The Winter Market • (1985) • novelette by William Gibson
  • 599 • Honorable Mentions: 1986 • essay by Gardner Dozois

    • References

    The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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