Widely regarded as the one essential book for every science fiction fan, The Year's Best Science Fiction continues to uphold its standard of excellence with more than two dozen SF stories from the previous year. This year's volume includes David Marusek, James Patrick Kelly, Michael Swanwick, Robert Reed, Eleanor Arnason, Stephen Baxter, Brian Stableford, Walter Jon Williams and many other bright stars of SF, as well as the usual thorough summation of the year and recommended reading lists.
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From Publishers Weekly
Dozois, the most celebrated editor in SF (10 Hugo Awards and counting) and himself a story writer of great distinction, has for the 16th time gleaned some of the most interesting and literate short fiction of the year for this most respected of best-of's. The 25 chosen works encompass pyrotechnic cyberpunk in dystopic future worlds, alien landscapes and transgalactic politics rigorously extrapolated, cutting-edge physics, metaphysics, comedy low and high, and a touch of fantasy, all of it carried off with wonderful style. And many are the styles. Ursula K. Le Guin is represented by a fantasy in the classic mode, "The Island of the Immortals," a meditation on a theme of Swift's: the true consequences of immortality. Allen Steele's comic Martian Christmas story, "Zwarte Piet's Tale," reads like a Reader's Digest essay, and that is part of its artAto make the alien seem utterly familiar. By contrast, Robert Charles Wilson's "Divided by Infinity" implies the existence in things most familiar of something deeply alien. There are hard SF stories by Greg Egan, Geoffrey Landis and the prolific Robert Reed. Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life," one of only four ever published by him, typifies Dozois's editorial aesthetic, offering genuine scientific insights in an emotionally rich contextAthe nature of causality itself is illumined through a careful dialogue with extraterrestrials and the tragic death of a child. Some of the stories trace modern trends to their horrible future conclusionsAthe evil results of genetic engineering, the continued evolution of weaponry, the depletion of world resources. Others point to solutions outside Earth: the colonization of other worlds, the mining of the asteroids or the branching proliferation of whole quantum universes. Once again, Dozois delivers an exemplary volume of exemplary SF.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
In its sixteenth edition, Dozois' monumental annual remains necessary, if not sufficient, for anyone who wants to be state-of-the-art in sf. The majority of the 25 authors represented this time hail from the literary high end of the genre, but because the short story holds its own there more than elsewhere, and because the average level of ability on display here is high, too, why quarrel with the fact? Furthermore, not-as-literary sf has a firm foothold in theme anthologies. Unfortunately, the usual overviews of the sf year were not available for review, so Dozois' criteria for this year's selections and his take on the year couldn't be assessed. Lacking them, let it be said that Tanith Lee, Ursula K. Le Guin, Paul J. McAuley, Ian McDonald, Gwyneth Jones, Allen Steele, and Stephen Baxter are among the veterans represented in these pages. Recommended, as usual. Roland Green
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