Table of Contents: THE YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL COLLECTION Edited by Gardner Dozois
UPDATE: Free fiction links added, thanks to Sense of Wonder.
Gardner Dozois has posted the impressive table of contents for his upcoming anthology The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection:
First, the book description:
[UPDATED to remove names from the description that are not in the final TOC]
The multiple Locus Award-winning annual compilation of the year’s best science fiction stories
In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Damien Broderick,
Elizabeth Bear, [and] Paul McAuleyand John Barnes. And with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.
Here’s the table of contents…
- “The Discovered Country” by Ian R. MacLeod
- “The Book Seller” by Lavie Tidhar
- “Pathways” by Nancy Kress
- “A Heap of Broken Images” by Sunny Moraine
- “Rock of Ages” by Jay Lake
- “Rosary and Goldenstar” by Geoff Ryman
- “Gray Wings” by Karl Bunker
- “The Best We Can” by Carrie Vaughn
- “Transitional Forms” by Paul McAuley
- “Precious Mental” by Robert Reed
- “Martian Blood” by Allen M. Steele
- “Zero For Conduct” by Greg Egan
- “The Waiting Stars” by Aliette de Bodard
- “A Map of Mercury” by Alastair Reynolds
- “One” by Nancy Kress
- “Murder on the Aldrin Express” by Martin L. Shoemaker
- “Biographical Fragments of the Life of Julian Prince” by Jake Kerr
- “The Plague” by Ken Liu
- “Fleet” by Sandra McDonald
- “The She-Wolf’s Hidden Grin” by Michael Swanwick
- “Bad Day on Boscobel” by Alexander Jablokov
- “The Irish Astronaut” by Val Nolan
- “The Other Gun” by Neal Asher
- “Only Human” by Lavie Tidhar
- “Entangled” by Ian R. MacLeod
- “Earth 1” by Stephen Baxter
- “Technarion” by Sean McMullen
- “Finders” by Melissa Scott
- “The Queen of Night’s Aria” by Ian McDonald
- “Hard Stars” by Brendan DuBois
- “The Promise of Space” by James Patrick Kelly
- “Quicken” by Damien Broderick
Book info as per Amazon US:
- Series: Year’s Best Science Fiction
- Hardcover: 704 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin’s Press (July 15, 2014)
- ISBN-10: 1250046203 (Paperback: 1250046211)
- ISBN-13: 978-1250046208 (Paperback: 978-1250046215)
Also: There’s a larger version of the cover posted yesterday.
SO glad to see “Rock of Ages” by Jay Lake on there. Audio originals get short shrift and I liked a whole mess of them in the latest METAtropolis; but Jay’s story of infiltration and the titular Rock is a darned good one.
Lavie Tidhar AND Neal Asher in the same book? Yea, verily, yet another sign of the End Times.