num_pages: 400
description: The novella is the perfect length for science fiction - long enough to work through an idea, but short enough to have maximum punch. Award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan has collected eight exciting new novellas by Kage Baker, Cory Doctorow, Jeffrey Ford, Robert Reed, Chris Roberson, Michael Swanwick, Ysabeau S. Wilce and Robert Charles Wilson in this stunning best of the year anthology.Contents:Introduction / Jonathan Strahan --Where the golden apples grow / Kage Baker --A billion Eves / Robert Reed --The voyage of Night Shining White / Chris Roberson --Julian : a Christmas story / Robert Charles Wilson --The lineaments of gratified desire / Ysabeau S. Wilce --Lord Weary's empire / Michael Swanwick --After the siege / Cory Doctorow --Botch town / Jeffrey Ford
language: English
title: Best Short Novels 2007
titlecomplete: Best Short Novels 2007
ratings_count: 10
series: Mars
publisher: Wildside Press