The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection

by Gardner Dozois

Overview

The best gets better and bigger. The two-time Nebula Award winning author and recently named editor of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine has compiled an awesome collection of science fiction from 1985.

It includes eleven current Nebula Award Finalists, and works by such best-selling and award-winning authors as Orson Scott Card, John Crowley, Avram Davidson, William Gibson, Joe Haldeman, R.A. Lafferty, George R.R. Martin, Frederik Pohl, Kim Stanley Robinson, Robert Silverberg, James Tiptree, Jr., and Howard Waldrop.

The finest new writers in the field are also represented, including recent Hugo and Nebula Award nominees such as James P. Blaylock, James Patrick Kelly, Nancy Kress, Lucius Shepard, Lewis Shiner, Bruce Sterling, Michael Swanwick, and Walter Jon Williams.

More than ever, this massive and satisfying book is the best buy in science fiction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781466829947
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/15/1986
Series:	Year's Best Science Fiction Series , #3
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	624
File size:	925 KB

About the Author

Gardner Dozois (1947-2018), one of the most acclaimed editors in science-fiction, has won the Hugo Award for Best Editor 15 times. He was the editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine for 20 years. He is the editor of The Year’s Best Science Fiction anthologies and co-editor of the Warrior anthologies, Songs of the Dying Earth, and many others. As a writer, Dozois twice won the Nebula Award for best short story. He lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Gardner Dozois (1947-2018), one of the most acclaimed editors in science-fiction, won the Hugo Award for Best Editor 15 times. He was the editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine for 20 years. He also served as the editor of The Year’s Best Science Fiction anthologies and co-editor of the Warrior anthologies, Songs of the Dying Earth, and many others. As a writer, Dozois twice won the Nebula Award for best short story. He was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2011 and received the Skylark Award for Lifetime Achievement. He lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Summation: 1985
The Jaguar Hunter / Lucius Shepard
Dogfight / William Gibson
Fermi and Frost / Frederik Pohl
Green Days in Brunei / Bruce Sterling
Snow / John Crowley
The Fringe / Orson Scott Card
The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things / Karen Joy Fowler
Sailing to Byzantium / Robert Silverberg
Solstice / James Patrick Kelly
Duke Pasquale's Ring / Avram Davidson
More Than the Sum of His Parts / Joe Haldeman
Out of All Them Bright Stars / Nancy Kress
Side Effects / Walter Jon Williams
The Only Neat Thing To Do / James Tiptree Jr.
Dinner in Audoghast / Bruce Sterling
Under Siege / George R. R. Martin
Flying Saucer Rock&Roll / Howard Waldrop
A Spanish Lesson / Lucius Shepard
Roadside Rescue / Pat Cadigan
Paper Dragons / James P. Blaylock
Magazine Section / R. A. Lafferty
The War at Home / Lewis Shiner
Rockabye Baby / S. C. Sykes
Green Mars / Kim Stanley Robinson
Honorable Mentions: 1985