Five Star Years Best Science Fiction Anthologies I Have Read

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The Best Science Fiction of the Year

by Terry Carr

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The Year's Best Science Fiction

by Gardner Dozois

Science fiction at its very best, this award-winning anthology features worksby the top sci fi writers of the year.
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The Year's Best Science Fiction

 

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The Year's Best Science Fiction

by Gardner R. Dozois

A collection of the best stories published in 1994.
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The Year's Best Science Fiction

by Gardner R. Dozois

This award-winning collection continues to provide dozens of the best stories of the year, including works by renowned veterans and exciting newcomers, such as Terry Bisson, Greg Egan, Ursula K. Le Guin and Nancy Kress. Rounded out with a long list of honorable mentions, this remains the one book for every sci-fi reader.
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The Year's Best Science Fiction

 

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The Year's Best Science Fiction

by Gardner R. Dozois

Fourteenth & Fifteenth Annual Collections.
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The Year's Best Science Fiction

by Gardner Dozois

Collects short stories exploring themes of time and space travel, self-discovery, and science and technology.
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The Year's Best Science Fiction

 

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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection

by Gardner Dozois

Collects short stories exploring themes of time and space travel, self-discovery, and science and technology.
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection

by Gardner Dozois

The stories in this collection imaginatively take readers far across the universe, into the very core of their beings, to the realm of the Gods, and to the moment just after now. Included are the works of masters of the form and the bright new talents of tomorrow. This book is a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection

by Gardner Dozois

Science fiction. More than two dozen outstanding tales written in the previous year.
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection

by Gardner R. Dozois

Collects short stories exploring themes of time and space travel, self-discovery, and science and technology.
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The Year's Best Science Fiction

 

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The Year's Best Science Fiction

 

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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection

by Gardner Dozois

The thirty stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: Paolo Bacigalupi, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Bear, Aliete de Bodard, James L. Cambias, Greg Egan, Charles Coleman Finlay, James Alan Gardner, Dominic Green, Daryl Gregory, Gwyneth Jones, Ted Kosmatka, Mary Robinette Kowal, Nancy Kress, Jay Lake, Paul McAuley, Ian McDonald, Maureen McHugh, Sarah Monette, Garth Nix, Hannu Rajaniemi, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Mary Rosenblum, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Geoff Ryman, Karl Schroeder, Gord Sellar, and Michael Swanwick. Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination, and the heart.
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Year's Best SF 7

by David G. Hartwell

Once again, the year's finest flights of speculative imagination are gathered in one extraordinary volume, compiled by acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell. From some of the most renowned visionaries of contemporary SF -- as well as new writers who are already making an indelible mark -- comes an all-new compendium of unparalleled tales of the possible that will enthrall, astonish, terrify, and elate. Stories of strange worlds and mind-boggling futures, of awesome discoveries and apocalyptic disasters, of universes light years distant and deep within the human consciousness, are collected here as SF's brightest lights shine more radiantly than ever before.
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Year's Best SF 10

by David G. Hartwell

A banner year for speculative fiction has yielded a crop of superb short form SF. Now the very best to appear over the past twelve months has been amassed into one extraordinary volume by acclaimed editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, offering bold visions of days to come that are bright, triumphant, breathtaking, and strikingly unique. Once more, celebrated masters of the field join with exciting new voices to sing of explorations and invasions, grand technological accomplishments, amazing flights into the unknown, horrors and miracles, and the human condition. Welcome to amazing worlds that could be -- and, perhaps, sooner than you have ever dared to imagine. New tales from: Gregory Benford Terry Bisson James Patrick Kelly Pamela Sargent Jack McDevitt Gene Wolfe and more
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Year's Best SF 11

by David G. Hartwell

Travel farther than you've ever dreamed Man has mused about the nature of our universe since he first gazed up in wonder at the stars. Now some of the most fertile imaginations in speculative fiction offer bold and breathtaking visions of "what's out there" and "what's next" in the eleventh annual celebration of the very best short SF to appear over the past year. Once again, acclaimed editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer have compiled an extraordinary collection featuring stunning works from modern masters as well as dazzling gems from brilliant new talents -- tales that carry the reader to the far corners of the galaxy and beyond, into hitherto unexplored regions. Get ready to take glorious flight on a journey to the miraculous.
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Year's Best SF 12

by David G. Hartwell

This annual science fiction collection contains stories by many of the biggest names in science fiction. Many of the stories have only been published in magazines before.
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The World's Best Science Fiction Annual, 1989

by Donald A. Wollheim

From the foremost editor of science fiction comes the 24th annual edition of this stellar collection. Offers the best works of both long-established names and some of the brightest new voices on the science fiction scene. Features David Brin, Jack L. Chalker, Tanith Lee and more.