Year's Best SF 15 (Year's Best SF Series, 15)

Product Description 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 at Tor/Forge Books. He is the author of Age of Wonders and the editor of many anthologies, including The Dark Descent , The World Treasury of Science Fiction , and a number of Christmas anthologies. He has won the Eaton Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Science Fiction Chronicle Poll, has been nominated for the Hugo Award thirty-one times to date, and has won the Hugo Award for Best Editor. 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. Contents xiii Introduction (Year's Best SF 15) essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer 1 Infinities (2008) novelette by Vandana Singh 35 This Peaceable Land; or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe (2009) novelette by Robert Charles Wilson 65 The Unstrung Zither (2009) novelette by Yoon Ha Lee 91 Black Swan (2009) novelette by Bruce Sterling 119 Exegesis (2009) shortstory by Nancy Kress 125 Erosion (2009) shortstory by Ian Creasey 141 Collision (2009) shortstory by Gwyneth Jones 155 Donovan Sent Us (2009) shortstory by Gene Wolfe 173 The Calculus Plague (2009) shortstory by Marissa Lingen [as by Marissa K. Lingen ] 181 The Island (2009) novelette by Peter Watts 222 One of Our Bastards Is Missing (2009) novelette by Paul Cornell 251 Lady of the White-Spired City (2009) shortstory by Sarah L. Edwards 271 The Highway Code (2009) novelette by Brian Stableford 292 On the Destruction of Copenhagen by the War-Machines of the Merfolk (2009) shortstory by Peter M. Ball 299 The Fixation (2009) shortstory by Alastair Reynolds 318 In Their Garden (2009) shortstory by Brenda Cooper 328 Blocked (2009) shortstory by Geoff Ryman 349 The Last Apostle (2009) shortstory by Michael Cassutt 373 Another Life (2009) novelette by Charles Oberndorf 407 The Consciousness Problem (2009) shortstory by Mary Robinette Kowal 427 Tempest 43 (2009) novelette by Stephen Baxter 447 Bespoke (2009) shortstory by Genevieve Valentine 457 Attitude Adjustment (2009) shortstory by Eric James Stone 470 Edison's Frankenstein (2009) novelette by Chris Roberson Introduction Infinities / Vandana Singh This peaceable land; or, The unbearable vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe / Robert Charles Wilson The unstrung zither / Yoon Ha Lee Black swan / Bruce Sterling Exegesis / Nancy Kress Erosion / Ian Creasey Collision / Gwyneth Jones Donovan sent us / Gene Wolfe The calculus plague / Marissa K. Lingen The island / Peter Watts One of our bastards is missing / Paul Cornell Lady of the White-Spirited City / Sarah L. Edwards The highway code / Brian Stableford On the destruction of Copenhagen by the war-machines of the Merfolk / Peter M. Ball The fixation Alastair Reynolds In their garden / Brenda Cooper Blocked / Geoff Ryman The last apostle / Michael Cassutt Another life / Charles Oberndorf The consciousness problem / Mary Robinette Kowal Tempest 43 / Stephen Baxter Bespoke / Genevieve Valentine Attitude adjustment / Eric James Stone Edison's Frankenstein / Chris Roberson.

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

SCIENCE FICTION. 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 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.