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

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.

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"