num_pages: 686
description: For decades the Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now after thirty-five annual collections. comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies. In The Very Best of the Best legendary editor Gardner Dozois selects the finest short stories for this landmark collection.Contents:- The Potter of Bones / Eleanor Arnason- Rogue Farm / Charles Stross- The Little Goddess / Ian McDonald- Dead Men Walking / Paul McAuley- Tin Marsh / Michael Swanwick- Good Mountain / Robert Reed- Where the Golden Apples Grow / Kage Baker- The Sledge-maker's Daughter / Alastair Reynolds- Glory / Greg Egan- Finisterra / David Moles- The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm / Daryl Gregory- Utriusque Cosmi / Robert Charles Wilson- Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance / John Kessel- Useless Things / Maureen McHugh- Mongoose / Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear- Hair / Adam Roberts- The Things / Peter Watts- The Emperor of Mars / Allen M. Steele- Flower Mercy Needle Chain / Yoon Ha Lee- Martian Heart / John Barnes- The Invasion of Venus / Stephen Baxter- Weep for Day / Indrapramit Das- The Girl-thing Who Went Out for Sushi / Pat Cadigan- The Memcordist / Lavie Tidhar- The Best We Can / Carrie Vaughn- The Discovered Country / Ian R. MacLeod- Pathways / Nancy Kress- The Hand Is Quicker... / Elizabeth Bear- Someday / James Patrick Kelly- The Long Haul From the Annals of Transportation The Pacific Monthly May 2009 / Ken Liu- Three Cups of Grief by Starlight / Aliette De Bodard- Calved / Sam J. Miller- Emergence / Gwyneth Jones- Rates of Change / James S.A. Corey- Jonas and the Fox / Rich Larson- Kit: Some Assembly Required / Kathe Koja and Carter Scholz- Winter Timeshare / Ray Nayler- My English Name / R.S. Benedict
language: English
title: The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction
publisher: St. Martin's Griffin