Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition (Science Fiction: The Best of ... (Quality))

the Best Stories Of The Year: Here Is A Collection Of The Best Science Fiction Prose Written In 2005, By Some Of The Genre's Greatest Authors, And Selected By Rich Horton, A Contributing Reviewer To Many Of The Field's Most Respected Magazines. In This Volume You'll Find Stories By James Patrick Kelly, Wil Mccarthy, Susan Palwick, Tom Purdom, Robert Reed, Michael Swanwick, James Van Pelt, Howard Waldrop, Alastair Reynolds, Ian Mcdonald, Mary Rosenblum, Stephen Leigh And Joe Haldeman. publishers Weekly horton's Elegiac Anthology Of 15 Mostly Hard Sf Stories Illuminates A Broad Spectrum Of Grief Over Love Thwarted Through Time, Space, Human Frailty Or Alien Intervention, From The Gentle Melancholy Of Michael Swanwick's Triceratops Summer, Which Posits Tame Technicolored Time-warped Dinosaurs In Vermont, To Newcomer Leah Bobet's Bliss, An Agonizing Riff On Near-future Drug Addiction. Several Selections Address Current Political-social Issues, Like Mary Rosenblum's Search Engine, Which Extrapolates Today's Technology To Chilling, Big Brotherly Results. The Long Closing Story, Alastair Reynolds's Understanding Space And Time, However, Presents A Ray Of Cosmic Hope: The Sole Survivor Of A Plague That Decimated Humanity Is Rescued And Healed By Intergalactic Entities And Lives Out Millennia While Seeking Ultimate Truths, Returning To See Mankind Regenerated. This Anthology Reflects The Concerns Of The Genre Today And The Apparent Inability Of Our Society To Do Anything About Them. Note That Two Of The Same Stories Appear In A Rival Volume, Science Fiction: The Very Best Of 2005, Edited By Jonathan Strahan (reviews, July 24). (sept.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information. by Rich Horton by Rich Horton -- Michael Swanwick by Rich Horton -- Michael Swanwick -- Tom Purdom by Rich Horton -- Michael Swanwick -- Tom Purdom -- Douglas Lain by Rich Horton -- Michael Swanwick -- Tom Purdom -- Douglas Lain -- James Patrick Kelly by Rich Horton -- Michael Swanwick -- Tom Purdom -- Douglas Lain -- James Patrick Kelly -- Joe Haldeman by Rich Horton -- Michael Swanwick -- Tom Purdom -- Douglas Lain -- James Patrick Kelly -- Joe Haldeman -- Susan Palwick by Rich Horton -- Michael Swanwick -- Tom Purdom -- Douglas Lain -- James Patrick Kelly -- Joe Haldeman -- Susan Palwick -- Howard Waldrop by Rich Horton -- Michael Swanwick -- Tom Purdom -- Douglas Lain -- James Patrick Kelly -- Joe Haldeman -- Susan Palwick -- Howard Waldrop -- Wil McCarthy by Rich Horton -- Michael Swanwick -- Tom Purdom -- Douglas Lain -- James Patrick Kelly -- Joe Haldeman -- Susan Palwick -- Howard Waldrop -- Wil McCarthy -- Leah Bobet by Rich Horton -- Michael Swanwick -- Tom Purdom -- Douglas Lain -- James Patrick Kelly -- Joe Haldeman -- Susan Palwick -- Howard Waldrop -- Wil McCarthy -- Leah Bobet -- Robert Reed by Rich Horton -- Michael Swanwick -- Tom Purdom -- Douglas Lain -- James Patrick Kelly -- Joe Haldeman -- Susan Palwick -- Howard Waldrop -- Wil McCarthy -- Leah Bobet -- Robert Reed -- James van Pelt by Rich Horton -- Michael Swanwick -- Tom Purdom -- Douglas Lain -- James Patrick Kelly -- Joe Haldeman -- Susan Palwick -- Howard Waldrop -- Wil McCarthy -- Leah Bobet -- Robert Reed -- James van Pelt -- Mary Rosenblum by Rich Horton -- Michael Swanwick -- Tom Purdom -- Douglas Lain -- James Patrick Kelly -- Joe Haldeman -- Susan Palwick -- Howard Waldrop -- Wil McCarthy -- Leah Bobet -- Robert Reed -- James van Pelt -- Mary Rosenblum -- Stephen Leigh by Rich Horton -- Michael Swanwick -- Tom Purdom -- Douglas Lain -- James Patrick Kelly -- Joe Haldeman -- Susan Palwick -- Howard Waldrop -- Wil McCarthy -- Leah Bobet -- Robert Reed -- James van Pelt -- Mary Rosenblum -- Stephen Leigh -- Daniel Kaysen by Rich Horton-- Michael Swanwick-- Tom Purdom-- Douglas Lain-- James Patrick Kelly-- Joe Haldeman-- Susan Palwick-- Howard Waldrop-- Wil McCarthy-- Leah Bobet-- Robert Reed-- James van Pelt-- Mary Rosenblum-- Stephen Leigh-- Daniel Kaysen-- Alastair Reynolds The Year In Science Fiction, by Rich Horton Triceratops Summer, by Michael Swanwick Bank Run, by Tom Purdom A Coffee Cup/Alien Invasion Story, by Douglas Lain The Edge of Nowhere, by James Patrick Kelly Heartwired, by Joe Haldeman The Fate of Mice, by Susan Palwick The King of Where-I-Go, by Howard Waldrop The Policeman's Daughter, by Wil McCarthy Bliss, by Leah Bobet Finished, by Robert Reed The Inn at Mount Either, by James Van Pelt Search Engine, by Mary Rosenblum "You" by Anonymous, by Stephen Leigh The Jenna Set, by Daniel Kaysen Understanding Space and Time, by Alastair Reynolds Presents a collection of fifteen short science fiction stories written in 2005 by a number of noted authors including Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, and Susan Palwick There are two obvious ways of looking at the state of the SF field in any given year.