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Year's Best SF 15 (Year's Best SF Series, 15) Mass Market Paperback – May 25, 2010

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An annual celebration of the finest short form science fiction of the past year, editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer’s Year’s Best science fiction anthologies are widely acclaimed and eagerly awaited—and Year’s Best SF 15 lives up magnificently to its name! Featuring thrilling new tales by such speculative fiction luminaries as Stephen Baxter, Gene Wolfe, Nancy Kress, Geoff Ryman, Bruce Sterling, and a host of others, Year’s Best SF 15 opens the door into a universe of wonders.

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Who knows what awaits us tomorrow?

Much of the most innovative and exhilarating work performed in the boundary-less arena of SF is being done in the short form. This year's magnificent harvest—gathered, as always, by acclaimed award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer—offers glimpses of worlds and tomorrows that would have been inconceivable just a few years ago. Brilliant, bold, unusual, and soaring flights into the hitherto unforeseen yet increasingly possible future, Year's Best SF 15 offers truly breathtaking stories by some of speculative fiction's brightest lights, including:

Stephen Baxter • Nancy Kress • Alastair Reynolds • Geoff Ryman • Bruce Sterling • Peter Watts • Robert Charles Wilson • Gene Wolfe • 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, critic, and anthologist, and was coeditor of the Year's Best Fantasy and Year's Best SF series. A consulting editor at Tor Books, she won a World Fantasy Award for her anthology The Architecture of Fear.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Voyager; 0 edition (May 25, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 512 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0061721751
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0061721755
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.19 x 1.02 x 6.75 inches

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A Nebula Award winner, Hugo Award nominee, and winner in the Writers of the Future Contest, Eric James Stone has had stories published in Year's Best SF 15, Analog, Nature, and Kevin J. Anderson's Blood Lite anthologies of humorous horror, among other venues. His first novel, Unforgettable, was published by Baen.
One of Eric's earliest memories is of seeing an Apollo moon-shot launch on television. That might explain his fascination with space travel. His father's collection of old science fiction ensured that Eric grew up on a full diet of Asimov, Heinlein and Clarke.
While getting his political science degree at Brigham Young University, Eric took creative writing classes. He wrote several short stories, and even submitted one for publication, but after it was rejected he gave up on creative writing for a decade.
During those years Eric graduated from Baylor Law School, worked on a congressional campaign, and took a job in Washington, DC, with one of those special interest groups politicians always complain that other politicians are influenced by. He quit the political scene in 1999 to work as a web developer in Utah.
In 2002 he started writing fiction again, and in 2003 he attended Orson Scott Card's Literary Boot Camp. In 2007 Eric got laid off from his day job just in time to go to the Odyssey Writing Workshop. He has since found a new web development job.
From 2009-2014, Eric was an assistant editor for Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show.
Eric lives in Orem, Utah, with his wife, Darci, a high school physics teacher, and their children, Honor and Link. His website is www.ericjamesstone.com.
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Branden

Not the best of the series

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 5, 2012

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I was very disappointed with this year's edition. Not all the stories were bad, but on average they failed, and many barely qualify for the label of "SF". Here's the stories:

"Infinities" -- supernatural math story about Hindu/Muslim relations in India
"This Peaceable Land; or the Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe" -- pointless alternate history story, not the barest shred of sci-fi
"The Unstrung Zither" -- fantasy story seemingly inspired by the children's show Avatar the Last Airbender
"Black Swan" -- pointless alternate history story in Italy
"Exegesis" -- great but short story about etymology
"Erosion" -- actual science fiction
"Collision" -- I couldn't actually understand what this story was about
"Donovan Sent Us" -- incredibly racist story that seems to propose that the Holocaust was good for the Jews
"The Calculus Plague" -- actual science fiction
"The Island" -- best story of the bunch
"One of Our Bastards is Missing" -- second best story of the bunch
"Lady of the White Spired City" -- actual science fiction
"The Highway Code" -- another great SF story
"On the Destruction of Copenhagen by the War-Machines of the Merfolk" -- this felt like reading some loser's LiveJournal, I hated this
"The Fixation" -- phoned in SF story
"In Their Garden" -- yet another post-apocalyptic story about something
"Blocked" -- political commentary, not SF
"The Last Apostle" -- fun nostalgic NASA-ish story
"Another Life" -- starts off like military SF then takes a turn for male prostitution, don't get me wrong, though: it's a good story
"The Consciousness Problems" -- morality story about clones, really phoned in
"Tempest 43" -- fun story offering subtle commentary on SF trends
"Bespoke" -- Decent story, but is's about time travel, and that genre is worn thin
"Attitude Adjustment" -- bland but classic-style SF story
"Edison's Frankenstein" -- terrible and pointless alternate history with a spice of unobtainium

So I have a really hard time rating a collection of short stories, because the good stories are good and should be read. But unfortunately, this collection both starts and ends with some pointless and forgettable stories, that overall left a very bad impression.

Further, I feel a special need to come back to Gene Wolf's "Donovan Sent Us", the racist and brain-numbingly bad story about an alternate version of WWII. I can't understand why anyone would include this story in any collection, it is offensive, stupid, and even without that, a bad story. Even more, it's not even slightly SF. Characters speak in cartoonish German accents, and the author's treatment of the Holocaust is insulting and racist. This story alone was enough to hurt my overall impression of this collection.

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Science Fiction in a Hard Place: 2009's Best

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I enjoyed most of the 24 stories in David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer's collection of science fiction offerings from 2009. As usual, the introductions were a skillful blend of author bios, web sites, and references to relevant book-length fiction and story collections. My favorite six stories are described below. All six focus more on human beings in difficult circumstances than on traditional SF themes of technology and space exploration.

Robert Charles Wilson's "This Peaceable Land" accompanies a white man and his black employer on their journey through an American South where the Civil War never took place and slavery disappeared gradually as it became economically infeasible. They search for evidence of all those unwanted slaves who also disappeared. And nobody wants to talk about it.

Yoon Ha Lee's "The Unstrung Zither" is superficially about the interrogation of five captured terrorists. On a deeper level it is a different kind of story that progresses toward a harmonious conclusion rather than a logical one.

In Sarah Edwards' "Lady of the White-Spired City" we return with the emperor's emissary to the small village on a backward planet where she once lived with her husband and daughter. It is not possible for her to return home, but perhaps she can make a new one.

Charles Oberndorf's "Another Life" introduces a soldier who is awakened in a new body with memories backed up before he went into action. He can't bring himself to use his ticket home until he finds out how he died. And why he is alone.

Mary Robinette Kowal's "The Consciousness Problem" explores the relationship between a woman, her husband, and his clone. Why we love who we love seems less clear than ever.

Eric James Stone's "Attitude Adjustment" is appropriately described by the editors as "...good old-fashioned problem-solving space SF in the Astounding tradition, done well. It has a touch of the Heinleinesque in its characterization and resolution."

I recommend this collection to all appreciative readers of science fiction. It is a clear success for the contributing authors and for this experienced team of editors.

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James Bowman

Everyone a gem

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 22, 2015

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Great Stories from a Master Anthologist year on year

Joost

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La nouille martienne

Des nouvelles, des nouvelles oui, encore des nouvelles !

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on October 18, 2010

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Vous avez déjà eu en main un des livres de la collection Histoire de ??? Certes certains récits ont vieillis mais c'est du collector alors : Avis aux amateurs de pure SF !!! Voici une collection de valeur à mettre sur votre bibliothèque en bonne place
La nouvelle en résumé c'est un récit sur un thème choisi par l'auteur et exploré avec talent et concision C'est une histoire dans laquelle on peut plonger sans craindre d'être interrompu par les obligations et le temps mais qui va vous hanter toute votre vie Souvenez vous de Journal d'un monstre de Matheson !
La collection Year's Best Sf de Hartwell et Cramer mérite le détour et l'achat par la qualité et la variété de styles choisis et des univers évoqués. Non seulement on y trouve des plumes connues en France mais aussi des auteurs ignorés mais talentueux Les lire donnent envie d'aller à leur rencontre, de pénétrer plus profond leur monde
Inutile de citer une nouvelle plus qu'une autre Chaque année, je n'ai que de bonnes surprises Il y a en a de toutes les formes et pour tous les goûts... jetez vous dessus, vous ne serez pas déçu !

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Jarrod Zhang

A great selection of short SF stories.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 3, 2014

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There are some excellent stories. There's a lot of value for the book. You can find the specific stories available in the book through the table of contents that can be accessed for free on Amazon.

philm

Four Stars

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 18, 2014

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