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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection

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The 12th Annual Collection had been a missing piece of my continuous set of the The Year's Best Science Fiction. It took a little while to find it and like so many others, I found it at Amazon, at a 'Like new' used price. Careful and prompt delivery. Another "thanks".

A very nice average of 3.83 for this volume, but a novella heavy book, so only 23 stories. Only a couple of average and one dodgy story to go along with the fine intro (some quotes below) and summary, gives this book top marks.

There are several standouts, topped by George Turner's brilliant 'Flowering Mandrake'.

On the book front, along with losses and musical chairs 'the new Tor, Orb and Forge lines...and Warner Aspect'.


Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Forgiveness Day - Ursula K. Le Guin
Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : The Remoras - Robert Reed
Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Nekropolis - Maureen F. McHugh
Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Margin of Error - Nancy Kress
Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Cilia-of-Gold - Stephen Baxter
Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Going After Old Man Alabama - William Sanders
Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Melodies of the Heart - Michael F. Flynn
Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : The Hole in the Hole - Terry Bisson
Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Paris In June - Pat Cadigan
Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Flowering Mandrake - George Turner
Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : None So Blind - Joe Haldeman
Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Cocoon - Greg Egan
Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge - Mike Resnick
Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Dead Space for the Unexpected - Geoff Ryman
Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Cri de Coeur - Michael Bishop
Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : The Sawing Boys - Howard Waldrop
Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : The Matter of Seggri - Ursula K. Le Guin
Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Ylem - Eliot Fintushel
Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Asylum - Katharine Kerr
Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Red Elvis - Walter Jon Williams
Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : California Dreamer - Mary Rosenblum
Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Split Light - Lisa Goldstein
Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Les Fleurs du Mal - Brian M. Stableford


Ekumen embassy explosion entrapment unreast.

4 out of 5


Serious space ship sucker sc@m.

3.5 out of 5


AI constraints.

3.5 out of 5


Breeding philosophy nanotage.

4 out of 5


Mercurial alien life relationship.

4 out of 5


May? Marie? What's the diff?

3.5 out of 5


Slow age memory cure.

4 out of 5


Lunar halfway rover Volvo.

3.5 out of 5


Roborecorder pimping.

3.5 out of 5


Vegetable methuselah's Kal-Elesque odyssey, and brief Phoenix rising.

5 out of 5


Supergenius, you see. Not.

4 out of 5


A private policeman investigates a bombing of a biological research centre looking into natal protection of babies, when he stumbles across the fact of the company moving anyone not died in the wool h3t3ro away from the project, and realises they are also experimenting with preventing non-hetero births by controlling maternal stress factors.

4.5 out of 5


Human pest hard to eradicate.

4 out of 5


Corporate performance pressure.

4 out of 5


Tau Ceti? Not Epsilon Eridani? Holy Crow!

4.5 out of 5


Music caper stop.

3 out of 5


Men's lib ratio.

4 out of 5


Time constant, nup.

3 out of 5


Red carded American neo-fascist critic.

4 out of 5


Jailhouse rock to the left, ghost bro.

4 out of 5


When feeling all Quakey, any mum will do.

3.5 out of 5


Just passed around.

2.5 out of 5


The Case of Rappacini's Daughter On the Island of Doctor Moreau.

4.5 out of 5