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

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.

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"