The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year 06

The science fiction and fantasy fields continue to evolve, setting new marks with each passing year. For the sixth year in a row, master anthologist Jonathan Strahan has collected stories to captivate, entertain, and showcase the very best the genre has to offer. Critically acclaimed, and with a reputation for including award-winning speculative fiction, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year is the only major best of anthology to collect both fantasy and science fiction under one cover. Jonathan Strahan has edited more than thirty anthologies and collections, including The Locus Awards (with Charles N. Brown), The New Space Opera (with Gardner Dozois), and Swords and Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery. Content "The Case of Death and Honey" by Neil Gaiman "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" by E. Lily Yu "Tidal Forces" by Caitln R Kiernan "Younger Women" by Karen Joy Fowler "White Lines on a Green Field" by Catherynne M. Valente "All That Touches The Air" by An Owomoyela "What We Found" by Geoff Ryman "The Server and the Dragon" by Hannu Rajaniemi "The Choice" by Paul McAuley "Malak" by Peter Watts "Old Habits" by Nalo Hopkinson "A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong" by K. J. Parker "Valley of the Girls" by Kelly Link "Brave Little Toaster" by Cory Doctorow "The Dala Horse" by Michael Swanwick "The Corpse Painters Masterpiece" by M Rickert "The Paper Menagerie" by Ken Liu "Steam Girl" by Dylan Horrocks "After the Apocalypse" by Maureen F. McHugh "Underbridge" by Peter S. Beagle "Relic" by Jeffrey Ford "The Invasion of Venus" by Stephen Baxter "Woman Leaves Room" by Robert Reed "Restoration" by Robert Shearman "The Onset of a Paranormal Romance" by Bruce Sterling "Catastrophic Disruption of the Head" by Margo Lanagan "The Last Ride of the Glory Girls" by Libba Bray "The Book of Phoenix" by Nnedi Okorafor "Digging" by Ian McDonald "The Man Who Bridged the Mist" by Kij Johnson "Goodnight Moons" by Ellen Klages An ancient society of cartographer wasps create delicately inscribed maps; a bodyjacking parasite is faced with imminent extinction; an AI makes a desperate gambit to protect its child from a ravenous dragon; a professor of music struggles with the knowledge that murder is not too high a price for fame; living origami carries a mother's last words to her child; a steam girl conquers the realm of imagination; Aliens attack Venus, ignoring an incredulous earth; a child is born on Mars...
The science fiction and fantasy fiction fields continue to evolve, setting new marks with each passing year. For the sixth year in a row, master anthologist Jonathan Strahan has collected stories that captivate, entertain, and showcase the very best the genre has to offer. Critically acclaimed, and with a reputation for including award-winning speculative fiction, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year is the only major "best of" anthology to collect both fantasy and science fiction under one cover.
Jonathan Strahan has edited more than twenty anthologies and collections, including The Locus Awards (with Charles N. Brown), The New Space Opera (with Gardner Dozois), and The Starry Rift. He has won the Ditmar, William J. Atheling Jr., and Peter McNamara awards for his work as an anthologist and reviewer, and was nominated for a Hugo Award for his editorial work. Strahan is currently the reviews editor for Locus.
"An ancient society of cartographer wasps create delicately inscribed maps; a body jacking parasite is faced with imminent extinction; an Al makes a desperate gambit to protect its child from a ravenous dragon; a professor of music struggles with the knowledge that murder is not too high a price for fame; living origami carries a mother's last words to her child; a steam girl conquers the realm of imagination; aliens attack Venus, ignoring an incredulous earth; a child is born on Mars ... The science fiction and fantasy fields continue to evolve, setting new marks with each passing year. For the sixth year in a row, master anthologist Jonathan Strahan has collected stories that captivate, entertain, and showcase the very best the genre has to offer. Critically acclaimed, and with a reputation for including award-winning speculative fiction, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year is the only major 'best of' anthology to collect both fantasy and science fiction under one cover."--Page 4 of cover Gathers stories by such writers as Neil Gaiman, Peter S. Beagle, Cory Doctorow, Jeffrey Ford, Walter Jon Williams, Tim Powers, Gene Wolfe, Connie Willis, and Robert Reed