Year's Best SF 17
Series: Year's Best SF series
Publisher: Voyager/HarperCollins UK
Published: 29May2012
Place of publication: London UK
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780062035875
Copyright date: 2012
Table of contents: title: Once again, the finest short-form sf offerings of the year have been collected in a single volume. With Year's Best SF 17, acclaimed, award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer demonstrate the amazing depth and power of contemporary speculative fiction, showcasing astonishing stories from some of the genre's most respected names as well as exciting new writers to watch. Prepare to travel light years from the ordinary into a tomorrow at once breathtaking, frightening, and possible, with tales of wonder.; title: Contents:; title: Introduction (Year's Best SF 17) • essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer;; title: The Best Science Fiction of the Year Three / Ken MacLeod;; title: Dolly / Elizabeth Bear;; title: Altogether Elsewhere, Vast Herds of Reindeer / Ken Liu;; title: Tethered / Mercurio D. Rivera;; title: Wahala / Nnedi Okorafor;; title: Laika's Ghost / Karl Schroeder;; title: Ragnarok / Paul Park;; title: Six Months, Three Days / Charlie Anders [as by Charlie Jane Anders];; title: And Weep Like Alexander / Neil Gaiman;; title: The Middle of Somewhere / Judith Moffett;; title: Mercies / Gregory Benford;; title: The Education of Junior Number 12 / Madeline Ashby;; title: Our Candidate / Robert Reed;; title: Thick Water / Karen Heuler;; title: The War Artist / Tony Ballantyne;; title: The Master of the Aviary / Bruce Sterling;; title: Home Sweet Bi'ome / Pat MacEwen;; title: For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I'll Not Be Back Again / Michael Swanwick;; title: The Ki-anna / Gwyneth Jones;; title: Eliot Wrote / Nancy Kress;; title: The Nearest Thing / Genevieve Valentine;; title: A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel / Yoon Ha Lee;; title: The Ice Owl / Carolyn Ives Gilman.; title: Cover art by John Harris.