A dazzling new collection of the finest short form science fiction from the previous year, compiled once again by World Fantasy and Hugo Award-winning editors by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, Year’s Best SF 16 features some of the brightest stars of the genre—including Gregory Benford, Cory Doctrow, Joe Haldeman, and Michael Swanwick. From space travel to time travel to journeys through the mind, brilliant and original speculative fiction is alive and well and magnificently celebrated in this splendid compendium of plausible wonders.
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The finest selections from a banner year for short-form science fiction, Year's Best SF 16 is the boldest, most eye-opening compilation to date from acclaimed, award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer—brilliant visions, both dark and hopeful, of what might await humankind over tomorrow's horizon.
Contributors include:
Gregory Benford
Terry Bisson
Brenda Cooper
Joe Haldeman
Kay Kenyon
Alastair Reynolds
Michael Swanwick
Vernor Vinge
and others
About the Author
David G. Hartwell is a senior editor of Tor/Forge Books. His doctorate is in Comparative Medieval Literature. He is the proprietor of Dragon Press, publisher and bookseller, which publishes The New York Review of Science Fiction, and the president of David G. Hartwell, Inc. He is the author of Age of Wonders and the editor of many anthologies, including The Dark Descent, The World Treasury of Science Fiction, The Hard SF Renaissance, The Space Opera Renaissance, and a number of Christmas anthologies, among others. Recently he co-edited his fifteenth annual paperback volume of Year's Best SF, and co-edited the ninth Year's Best Fantasy. John Updike, reviewing The World Treasury of Science Fiction in The New Yorker, characterized him as a "loving expert." He is on the board of the IAFA, is co-chairman of the board of the World Fantasy Convention, and an administrator of the Philip K. Dick Award. He has won the Eaton Award, the World Fantasy Award, and has been nominated for the Hugo Award forty times to date, winning as Best Editor in 2006, 2008, and 2009.
Kathryn Cramer is a writer and anthologist. She won a World Fantasy Award for best anthology for The Architecture of Fear, co-edited with Peter Pautz; she was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for her anthology Walls of Fear. She co-edits anthologies with David G. Hartwell, such as the huge anthologies of hard sf The Ascent of Wonder, The Space Opera Renaissance, and The Hard SF Renaissance, and does the annual Year's Best Fantasy and the Year's Best SF with him. She is an editor of The New York Review of Science Fiction, for which she has been nominated for the Hugo Award seventeen times. Her dark fantasy hypertext, In Small and Large Pieces, was published by Eastgate Systems, Inc. She is employed by Wolfram Research and by L. W. Currey, Inc.
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer have mined a shifting set of sources--magazines, anthologies, ezines, etc.--for the best 21 science fiction stories of 2010. Their volume has the usual concise introduction and informative author notes. Spoiled over the years, we have come to take them for granted. It's their own fault.
Here are the five stories I liked most:
Benjamin Crowell's "Petopia" features a cute, cuddly little plush toy with enough artificial intelligence to enlighten an innocent child. Then somebody throws it into the trash.
Terry Bisson's "About It" is a first-person account from a janitor who sneaks Bigfoot out of the genetics lab so he can spend his time around the house. Everyone seems so understanding about it.
Cat Sparks' "All the Love in the World" is about the end of the narrator's world. The actual end of global civilization is part of the background.
David Langford's "Graffiti in the Library of Babel" shows humanity's reaction to subtle messages "tagged" into a formerly-secure library. It shares enjoyable elements with Fred Lerner's "Rosetta Stone" in Year's Best SF 5.
Brenda Cooper's "The Hebras and the Demons and the Damned" is about colonists trying to domesticate giraffe-like herbivores on their new planet. If you like this story, you might read The Silver Ship and the Sea and its sequels, which are set on the same planet.
Most of the stories were good or better, but some didn't do it for me. "How to Become a Mars Overlord" by Catherynne Valente is supposed to be tongue-in-cheek but goes on too long, leaving a feeling of...... Read more ›
Here are the five stories I liked most:
Benjamin Crowell's "Petopia" features a cute, cuddly little plush toy with enough artificial intelligence to enlighten an innocent child. Then somebody throws it into the trash.
Terry Bisson's "About It" is a first-person account from a janitor who sneaks Bigfoot out of the genetics lab so he can spend his time around the house. Everyone seems so understanding about it.
Cat Sparks' "All the Love in the World" is about the end of the narrator's world. The actual end of global civilization is part of the background.
David Langford's "Graffiti in the Library of Babel" shows humanity's reaction to subtle messages "tagged" into a formerly-secure library. It shares enjoyable elements with Fred Lerner's "Rosetta Stone" in Year's Best SF 5.
Brenda Cooper's "The Hebras and the Demons and the Damned" is about colonists trying to domesticate giraffe-like herbivores on their new planet. If you like this story, you might read The Silver Ship and the Sea and its sequels, which are set on the same planet.
Most of the stories were good or better, but some didn't do it for me. "How to Become a Mars Overlord" by Catherynne Valente is supposed to be tongue-in-cheek but goes on too long, leaving a feeling of...... Read more ›
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This collection had a gem or two but, I found the stories mediocre overall. I was excited when i saw some of the great authors who contributed, then found myself disappointed more than once.
By Aoisatomi
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I initially purchased this for a class, but the stories turned out to be very entertaining. I'm considering perhaps purchasing some of the other "Year's Best SF --"
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By TechGuy
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I have to say I didn't read this myself, it was a gift for my 14 yr old. He thought the stories were boring in general. For that age bracket you can't beat the Tunnels series (Roderick Gordon).
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Leah
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not enough stories for the money, but a nice mix. would buy on sale just not full price. thta thats all you get
0 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By babs
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i was very pleased with the speed and condition of the book. thank you so much and will watch for more of your sales.
