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Year's Best SF 16 (Year's Best SF Series) Mass Market Paperback – May 31, 2011

by David G. Hartwell (Author), Kathryn Cramer (Author)

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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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512 pages
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English
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Harper Voyager
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May 31, 2011
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4.19 x 1.02 x 6.75 inches
ISBN-10

0062035908
ISBN-13

978-0062035905
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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, 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; First Printing edition (May 31, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 512 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0062035908
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0062035905
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.19 x 1.02 x 6.75 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #3,839,673 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #7,598 in Science Fiction Anthologies (Books)
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Cat Sparks is a multi-award-winning Australian author, editor and artist. Former fiction editor of Cosmos Magazine, she has also dabbled as an assistant library technician, media monitor, political and archaeological photographer, graphic designer, guest lecturer, festival director, panellist, fiction judge, essayist, creative writing teacher and manager of Agog! Press, which produced ten anthologies of new speculative fiction.
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Other career highlights include studying with Margaret Atwood, 73 published short stories, two collections – The Bride Price (2013) and Dark Harvest (2020) and a far future novel, Lotus Blue (2017), which was funded by an Australia Council emerging writers grant.
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John M. Ford

2010's Best SF and Then Some

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 10, 2011

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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... too much tongue, maybe. And Paul Park's "Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance" was just too intricate to be appreciated by my bone-encased brain. It puzzled me instead of entertaining. I wasn't looking for a many-leveled, self-referential puzzle. Sorry.

All-in-all the collection is recommended. Read them all, even the stories I don't recommend. You may see something I missed. I feel my time and money were well spent.

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eclectic

not enough

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 7, 2012

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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

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 15, 2015

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Uneven like most anthologies-but I liked enough of the stories to give it a B.

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Year's Best SF 16 Ehh....

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 26, 2012

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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.

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TechGuy

Didn't keep my teenager's interest

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 23, 2013

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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).

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 29, 2016

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nicely done-some great ones-some less exciting but all are clever and fun to read.
SF still lives in these wonderful short stories.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 23, 2011

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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.

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Aoisatomi

Wonderful Short Stories

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 29, 2012

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 --"

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Mr. P. Freeman

sci fi

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 21, 2012

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Book delivered in nice condition and quite fast.The stories are broad ranging,not all to my liking but on the whole an interesting bunch and worth a look for most people.

James Bowman

Wonderfully Edited book

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

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Great Stories from a Master Anthologist year on year

Edzard Hueneke

Great stories

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on October 12, 2015

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In a short story collection, I expect to be disappointed by some of the stories, and pleasantly surprised by others. Here, although I didn't like all of them, I found some of the stories simply astounding. Fascinating ideas, great language, varying styles - an amazing and inspiring collection. Highly recommended!

Ricardo

Relatos interesantes de ciencia ficción

Reviewed in Spain 🇪🇸 on December 9, 2015

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Una de las mejores selecciones de ciencia ficción que se publica anualmente. Un libro que merece la pena ser adquirido.

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