The year's best science fiction
Subtitle: twenty-first annual collection
By: edited by Gardner Dozois
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; St. Martin's Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 665
ISBN-13: 9780312324780; 9780312324797
Subjects: American Science fiction; English Science fiction; English Short stories; American Short stories; Science fiction
Table of contents: title: Summation, 2003; title: Off on a starship  -- William Barton -- It's all true / -- John Kessel; title: Rogue farm  -- Charles Stross; title: The ice  -- Steven Popkes; title: Ej-es  -- Nancy Kress; title: The bellman  -- John Varley; title: The bear's baby  -- Judith Moffett; title: Calling your name  -- Howard Waldrop; title: June sixteenth at Anna's  -- Kristine Kathryn Rusch; title: The green leopard plague  -- Walter Jon Williams; title: The fluted girl  -- Paolo Bacigalupi; title: Dead worlds  -- Jack Skillingstead; title: King dragon  -- Michael Swanwick; title: Singletons in love  -- Paul Melko; title: Anomalous structures of my dreams  -- M. Shayne Bell; title: The cookie monster  -- Vernor Vinge; title: Joe Steele  -- Harry Turtledove; title: Birth days  -- Geoff Ryman; title: Awake in the night  -- John C. Wright; title: The long way home  -- James Van Pelt; title: The eyes of America  -- Geoffrey A. Landis; title: Welcome to Olympus, Mr. Hearst  -- Kage Baker; title: Night of time  -- Robert Reed; title: Strong medicine  -- William Shunn; title: Send me a mentagram  -- Dominic Green; title: And teh dish ran away with the spoon  -- Paul Di Filippo; title: Flashmen  -- Terry Dowling; title: Dragonhead  -- Nick DiChario; title: Dear Abbey -- Terry Bisson-- Honorable mentions, 2003.