The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection

by Gardner Dozois

Overview

This new volume of The Year's Best Science Fiction carries on the proud tradition, with stories by Pat Murphy, Bruce McAllister, Bruce Sterling, Kate Wilhelm, Alexander Jablokov, Walter Job Williams, Paul J. McAuley, Neal Barrett, Jr., Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Silverberg, James Patrick Kelly, Octavia E. Butler, Howard Waldrop, Pat Cadigan, Lucius Shepard, Karen Joy Fowler, Joseph Manzione, Ian Watson, Susan Palwick, Michael Flynn, Dean Whitlock, R. Garcia y Robertson, Gene Wolfe, Michael McDowell, Orson Scott Card, Michael Bishop, Kim Stanley Robinson. More than ever, this anthology truly is the best science fiction of the year--the one volume no SF fan can be without.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781466829930
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/15/1988
Series:	Year's Best Science Fiction Series , #5
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	678
Sales rank:	1,034,354
File size:	978 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

Summation: 1987
Rachel in Love / Pat Murphy
Dream Baby / Bruce McAllister
Flowers Of Edo / Bruce Sterling
Forever Yours, Anna / Kate Wilhelm
At the Cross-Time Jaunters' Ball / Alexander Jablokov
Dinosaurs / Walter Jon Williams
The Temporary King / Paul J. McAuley
Perpetuity Blues / Neal Barrett Jr.
Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight / Ursula K. Le Guin
The Pardoner's Tale / Robert Silverberg
Glass Cloud / James Patrick Kelly
The Evening and the Morning and the Night / Octavia E. Butler
Night of the Cooters / Howard Waldrop
Angel / Pat Cadigan
Shades / Lucius Shepard
The Faithful Companion at Forty / Karen Joy Fowler
Candle in a Cosmic Wind / Joseph Manzione
The Emir's Clock / Ian Watson
Ever After / Susan Palwick
The Forest Of Time / Michael Flynn
The Million-Dollar Wound / Dean Whitlock
The Moon of Popping Trees / R. Garcia y Robertson
Diner / Neal Barrett Jr.
All the Hues of Hell / Gene Wolfe
Halley's Passing / Michael McDowell
America / Orson Scott Card
For Thus Do I Remember Carthage / Michael Bishop
Mother Goddess Of The World / Kim Stanley Robinson
Honorable Mentions: 1987