The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection
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| Editor | Gardner Dozois |
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| Cover artist | Slawek Wojtowicz |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Year's Best Science Fiction |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
Publication date | July 2010 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover & trade paperback) |
| Pages | 688 pp |
| ISBN | 9780312608989 |
| Preceded by | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection |
| Followed by | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published on July 6, 2010. It is the 27th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series.[1] It was also published in the UK as The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 23.[1]
Contents[edit]
The book includes 32 stories, all first published in 2009. The book also includes a summation by Dozois, a brief introduction to each story by Dozois and a referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows:[2]
- Robert Charles Wilson: "Utriusque Cosmi"
- Steven Gould: "A Story, With Beans"
- Karl Bunker: "Under The Shouting Sky"
- John Kessel: "Events Preceding the Helvetican Revolution"
- Maureen F. McHugh: "Useless Things"
- Bruce Sterling: "Black Swan"
- Paul McAuley: "Crimes and Glory"
- Alexander Irvine: "Seventh Fall"
- Dominic Green: "Butterfly Bomb"
- Vandana Singh: "Infinites"
- John Barnes: "Things Undone"
- Jay Lake: "On The Human Plan"
- Peter Watts: "The Island"
- Lavie Tidhar: "The Integrity of the Chain"
- Mary Rosenblum: "Lion Walk"
- Jo Walton: "Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction"
- Rand B. Lee: "Three Leaves of Aloe"
- Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette: "Mongoose"
- Albert E. Cowdrey: "Paradiso Lost"
- Nicola Griffith: "It Takes Two"
- Geoff Ryman: "Blocked"
- James Van Pelt: "Solace"
- Nancy Kress: "Act One"
- John C. Wright: "Twilight of the Gods"
- Ted Kosmatka & Michael Poore: "Blood Dauber"
- Damien Broderick: "This Wind Blowing, And This Tide"
- Adam Roberts: "Hair"
- Robert Reed: "Before My Last Breath"
- Paul Cornell: "One of Our Bastards Is Missing"
- Chris Roberson: "Edison's Frankenstein"
- Ian Creasey: "Erosion"
- Ian McDonald: "Vishnu at the Cat Circus"
Release Details[edit]
- 2010, United States, St. Martin's Press ISBN 978-0-312-60897-2, Pub date July 2010, Hardcover [3]
- 2010, United States, St. Martin's Griffin ISBN 978-0-312-60898-9, Pub date July 2010, Trade paperback [4]
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Review at Wall Street Journal