Now on Kindle! “The Year’s Best Science Fiction” 1st and 2nd Annual Collections Edited by Gardner Dozois! [Updated with TOCs!]
Gardner Dozois has posted on his facebook page that he has just released his long out-of-print anthologies The Year’s Best Science Fiction, First Annual Collection and The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Second Annual Collection to the Amazon Kindle store. And you can get them for just under $7 each. That’s a steal.
My first two Best anthologies from St. Martin’s, THE YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, FIRST ANNUAL COLLECTION and THE YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, SECOND ANNUAL COLLECTION, are now available in Kindle editions. These are extremely hard editions to find in print, people have been asking me at cons for decades how they can find them, and I’ve seen them selling for hundreds and even thousands of dollars–so if you ever wanted to read them, the start of my long-running Best of the Year series (soon up to its Twenty-Ninth Annual Edition, which will out in July), this is probably your best chance.
So run out and buy these in a buying frenzy. Buy them as presents for friends. Buy them as gifts for your pets. If they sell well enough in Kindle format, I may be able to convince the publisher that they should make other old, long-out-of-print volumes in the series available in that format as well.
This is great news. I’ve already told the story of how I came to own a physical copy of the first annual collection, now I can get a copy of the missing second annual collection.
Tables of contents follow…
The Year’s Best Science Fiction, First Annual Collection
- “Cicada Queen” by Bruce Sterling
- “Beyond the Dead Reef” by James Tiptree, Jr.
- “Slow-Birds” by Ian Watson
- “Vulcan’s Forge” by Poul Anderson
- “Man-Mountain Gentian” by Howard Waldrop
- “Hardfought” by Greg Bear
- “Manifest Destiny” by Joe Haldeman
- “Full Chicken Richness” by Avram Davidson
- “Multiples” by Robert Silverberg
- “Cryptic” by Jack McDevitt
- “The Sidon in the Mirror” by Connie Willis
- “Golden Gate” by R. A. Lafferty
- “Blind Shemmy” by Jack M. Dann
- “In the Islands” by Pat Murphy
- “Nunc Dimittis” by Tanith Lee
- “Blood Music” by Greg Bear
- “Her Furry Face” by Leigh Kennedy
- “Knight of Shallows” by Rand B. Lee
- “The Cat” by Gene Wolfe
- “The Monkey Treatment” by George R. R. Martin
- “Nearly Departed” by Pat Cadigan
- “Hearts Do Not in Eyes Shine” by John Kessel
- “Carrion Comfort” by Dan Simmons
- “Gemstone” by Vernor Vinge
- “Black Air” by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Second Annual Collection
- “Salvador” by Lucius Shepard
- “Promises to Keep” by Jack McDevitt
- “Bloodchild” by Octavia E. Butler
- “Blued Moon” by Connie Willis
- “A Message to the King of Brobdingnag” by Richard Cowper
- “The Affair” by Robert Silverberg
- “PRESS ENTER []” by John Varley
- “New Rose Hotel” by William Gibson
- “The Map” by Gene Wolfe
- “Interlocking Pieces” by Molly Gloss
- “Trojan Horse” by Michael Swanwick
- “Bad Medicine” by Jack M. Dann
- “At the Embassy Club” by Elizabeth A. Lynn
- “Pursuit of Excellence” by Rena Yount
- “The Kindly Isle” by Frederik Pohl
- “Rock On” by Pat Cadigan
- “Sunken Gardens” by Bruce Sterling
- “Trinity” by Nancy Kress
- “The Trouble with the Cotton People” by Ursula K. Le Guin
- “Twilight Time” by Lewis Shiner
- “Black Coral” by Lucius Shepard
- “Friend” by James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel
- “Foreign Skins” by Tanith Lee
- “Company in the Wings” by R. A. Lafferty
- “A Cabin on the Coast” by Gene Wolfe
- “The Lucky Strike” by Kim Stanley Robinson
I immediately clicked to buy… and encountered “Not available” at the top of the page. See:
https://skitch.com/rightgeek/8tq7u/amazon.com-the-years-best-science-fiction-second-annual-collection-ebook-gardner-dozois-kindle-store
Is this a country thing or something else? Any idea?
If it is St Martin’s, it will be yank only – so you’ll have to add a US address to the account to get them.
@ Blue Tyson
Funny thing is, I do have two addresses in my address book. And the message used to read “Not available at your location” (or sth similar), with an option to change the default address. Perhaps this has changed.
I am at a loss here, I must say.
You have to go to Manage your Kindle to change it. There’s a country settings in the options there.
Change, buy, switch back to your usual afterwards.
… and bought! Thanks a million, I could not remember where that option is (and it is well hidden :-)).
Kindle isn’t listed under “formats” just yet, i’m guessing it’s a small screw-up on amazon’s part. Bet they’ll fix it by monday…
I had these, once upon a time, so it’ll be nice to get replacements (I’ve got a couple of gaps in the physical run of the books, so I hope this continues!).
I already got my copies. 🙂
Awesome. Even more awesome: Gardner slagging Return of the Jedi in the intro.