Year's Best SF 2

✍ Scribed by Hartwell, David G

• Book ID: 106898417
• Publisher: HarperPrism
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: und
• Weight: 238 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780061057465

✦ Synopsis

SUMMARY: Building on the unprecedented success of last season's Year's Best, award-winning editor David G. Hartwell has once again scoured the magazines and anthologies to bring together the very best of today's edgy, audacious, and innovative SF. Here are machines that dream and stars that sing; tales from notable pros and heretofore unknowns;wondrously diverse stories that share the sense of wonder that is the mark of great science fiction. " Includes stories by: Gregory Benford, Terry Bisson, James Patrick Kelly, Damon Knight, Joanna Russ, Bruce Sterling, Connie Willis, and many others! * Dave Wolverton: "After a Lean Winter" (Originally in F&SF, 1996) * Terry Bisson: "In the Upper Room" (Originally in Playboy, 1996) * John Brunner: "Thinkertoy" (Originally in The Williamson Effect, 1996) * Gregory Benford: "Zoomers" (Originally in Future Net, 1996) * Sheila Finch: "Out of the Mouths" (Originally in F&SF, 1996) * James Patrick Kelly: "Breakaway, Backdown" (Originally in Asimov's, 1996) * Yves Meynard: "Tobacco Words" (Originally in Tomorrow, 1995) * Joanna Russ: "Invasion" (Originally in Asimov's, 1996) * Brian Stableford: "The House of Mourning" (Originally in Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex, 1996) * Damon Knight: "Life Edit" (Originally in Science Fiction Age, 1996) * Robert Reed: "First Tuesday" (Originally in F&SF, 1996) * David Langford: "The Spear of the Sun" (Originally in Interzone, 1996) * Gene Wolfe: "Counting Cats in Zanzibar" (Originally in Asimov's, 1996) * Bruce Sterling: "Bicycle Repairman" (Originally in Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology, 1996) * Gwyneth Jones: "Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland" (Originally in Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex, 1996) * Allen Steele: "Doblin's Lecture" (Originally in Pirate Writings, 1996) * Kathleen Ann Goonan: "The Bride of Elvis" (Originally in Science Fiction Age, 1996) * Kate Wilhelm: "Forget Luck" (Originally in F&SF, 1996) * Connie Willis: "Nonstop to Portales" (Originally in The Williamson Effect, 1996) * Stephen Baxter: "Columbiad" (Originally in Science Fiction Age, 1996)