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Rich Horton has finalized the table of contents for his annual science fiction anthology...

Science Fiction: The Best of the Year: 2008 Edition

1. "Dark Integers" by Greg Egan
2. "A Plain Tale From Our Hills" by Bruce Sterling
3. "An Eye for an Eye" by Charles Coleman Finlay
4. "Always" by Karen Joy Fowler
5. "An Ocean is a Snowflake, Four Billion Miles Away" by John Barnes
6. "Virus Changes Skin" by Ekaterina Sedia
7. "Wikiworld" by Paul Di Filippo
8. "Artifice and Intelligence" by Tim Pratt
9. "Jesus Christ, Reanimator" by Ken MacLeod
10. "Night Calls" by Robert Reed
11. "Everyone Bleeds Through" by Jack Skillingstead
12. "Art of War" by Nancy Kress
13. "Three Days of Rain" by Holly Phillips
14. "Brain Raid" by Alexander Jablokov
15. "For Solo Cello, Op. 12" by Mary Robinette Kowal
16. "Perfect Violet" by Will McIntosh
17. "Vectoring" by Geoffrey Landis
18. "The Skysailor's Tale" by Michael Swanwick

Share: | Posted by John on Wednesday February 13, 2008 - 12:08 AM | Category: Books | © 2008 SF Signal

This looks like a fine list with a nice mix of some very prominent authors (i.e. - ones that I recognize) as well as some less-famous ones.

Of all these stories the only one that I have read (so far) is "For Solo Cello, Op. 12" by Mary Robinette Kowal. I agree that it is worthy of inclusion in a "Best of" anthology if for no other reason than it makes use of the highly controversial subject of what embryonic stem cells may be able to accomplish. A great story for thinking about things that may be. (You can read my own review of the story on my blog.)

Anyway, looks like a good list - can't wait to pick it up and start working on each of the stories.

-Rusty

Posted by Rusty on Sunday February 17, 2008 at 4:18 PM