The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection

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Country United States Originally published 15 May 1996 Publisher St. Martin's Press		Language English Page count 640 (586 of story text)

Author Edited by Gardner Dozois Publication date 1996 (collecting stories originally published in 1995) Pages 640 (586 of story text) ISBN 978-0-312-14451-7 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-312-14452-4 (paperback) Series The Year's Best Science Fiction Genres Science Fiction, Anthology Awards Locus Award for Best Anthology Similar The Year's Best Science Fiction books, Anthology books

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection (ISBN 978-0-312-14451-7) is a 1996 science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois. It is the 13th in the Year's Best Science Fiction series. It won the Locus Award for best anthology.

The book opens with a 39-page writeup by Dozois which summarizes and comments on major developments in science fiction literature and film in 1995. The main body of the book contains 24 stories (all originally published in 1995), an introduction by Dozois opening each story, and a 6-page referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories included in the book are as follows.

Ursula K. Le Guin: "A Woman's Liberation"

Ian R. MacLeod: "Starship Day"

Robert Reed: "A Place with Shade"

Greg Egan: "Luminous"

Michael F. Flynn: "The Promise of God"

Pat Cadigan: "Death in the Promised Land"

Joe Haldeman: "For White Hill"

John Kessel: "Some Like It Cold"

Allen Steele: "The Death of Captain Future"

Maureen F. McHugh: "The Lincoln Train"

David Marusek: "We Were Out of Our Minds with Joy"

Michael Swanwick: "Radio Waves"