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| Material Type: | Fiction |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gardner R Dozois |
| ISBN: | 0312363419 9780312363413 0312363427 9780312363420 |
| OCLC Number: | 71173902 |
| Notes: | Selections from: The year's best science fiction. |
| Description: | xi, 642 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Sailing to Byzantium / by Robert Silverberg -- Surfacing / by Walter Jon Williams -- The Hemingway hoax / by Joe Haldeman -- Mr. Boy / by James Patrick Kelly -- Beggars in Spain / by Nancy Kress -- Griffin's egg / by Michael Swanwick -- Outnumbering the dead / by Frederick Pohl -- Forgiveness day / by Ursula K. Le Guin -- The cost to be wise / by Maureen F. McHugh -- Oceanic / by Greg Egan -- Tendeleo's story / by Ian McDonald -- New light on the Drake equation / by Ian R. MacLeod -- Turquoise days / by Alastair Reynolds. |
| Other Titles: | 20 years of the best short science fiction novels Year's best science fiction (New York, N.Y.) |
| Responsibility: | [edited by] Gardner Dozois. |
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"Stories that couldn't be squeezed into 2005's "Volume 1: a baker's dozen of novellas and short novels, 1985-2002," arranged chronologically. Some of these tales originally appeared as standalone books, such as Robert Silverberg's 'Sailing to Byzantium' (a man from the 1980s adrift in a future so remote that technology has become magic), and Michael Swanwick's 'Griffin's Egg, ' wherein new brain chemicals enable controlled mental evolution. Others were expanded into full-length novels: Joe Haldeman's reality-shifting 'The Hemingway Hoax, ' Nancy Kress's sleepless 'Beggars in Spain' and Maureen F. McHugh's wayfaring 'The Cost to Be Wise.' Others represent the forefront of the new British invasion: 'Tendeleo's Story' is Ian McDonald's take on post-colonial Africa; Ian R. MacLeod's 'New Light on the Drake Equation' rescues the last and forgotten advocate of SETI from the depths of drunken despair; and Alastair Reynolds extends his far-future Demarchist/Conjoiner universe to look more clos Read more...
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