false 773064 410112 0312363354 9780312363352 7 <![CDATA[The Year's Best Science Fiction Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410112.The_Year_s_Best_Science_Fiction_Twenty_Fourth_Annual_Collection 4.10 20 * Cory Doctorow * Robert Charles Wilson * Michael Swanwick * Ian McDonald * Benjamin Rosenbaum * Kage Baker * Bruce McAllister * Alastair Reynolds * Jay Lake * Ruth Nestvold * Gregory Benford * Justin Stanchfield * Walter Jon Williams * Greg Van Eekhout * Robert Reed * David D. Levine * Paul J. McAuley * Mary Rosenblum * Daryl Gregory * Jack Skillingstead * Paolo Bacigalupi * Greg Egan * Elizabeth Bear * Sarah Monette * Ken MacLeod * Stephen Baxter * Carolyn Ives Gilman * John Barnes * A.M. Dellamonica
Supplementing the stories are the editor’s insightful summation of the year’s events and a list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.</div></div>

Comprising:

I, Row-Boat by Cory Doctorow;
Julian: A Christmas Story by Robert Charles Wilson;
The Marsh by Michael Swanwick;
The Djinn's Wife by Ian McDonald;
The House Beyond Your Sky by Benjamin Rosenbaum;
Where the Golden Apples Grow by Kage Baker;
Kin by Bruce McAllister;
Signal to Noise by Alastair Reynolds;
The Big Ice by Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold;
Bow Shock by Gregory Benford;
In the River by Justin Stanchfield;
Incarnation Day by Walter Jon Williams;
Far as You Can Go by Greg Van Eekhout;
Good Mountain by Robert Reed;
I Hold My Father's Paws by David D. Levine;
Dead Men Walking by Paul J. McAuley;
Home Movies by Mary Rosenblum;
Damascus by Daryl Gregory;
Life on the Preservation by Jack Skillingstead;
Yellow Card Man by Paolo Bacigalupi;
Riding the Crocodile by Greg Egan;
The Ile of Dogges by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette;
The Highway Men by Ken MacLeod;
The Pacific Mystery by Stephen Baxter;
Okanoggan Falls by Carolyn Ives Gilman;
Every Hole is outlined by John Barnes;
The Town on Blighted Sea by A.M. Dellamonica;
Nightingale by Alastair Reynolds.]]> 12052 3.87 1828 351 1343790 3.86 300 101 2765759 4.10 20 7 773064 4.01 144 37 53193 3.78 3750 495 2110155 4.10 21 8 463665 3.78 104 29 1226977 3.96 297 80 22645 3.57 2500 180 32699 3.88 1662 234 51204 3.90 5859 648 108173 3.64 2296 554 234088 3.43 833 266 1378540 4.04 23 10 128570 3.84 1655 373 48960 3.74 3427 259 1957584 3.45 201 76 108281 3.66 1607 197 12581 3.83 7404 1860 20295 3.71 5736 606 57814 3.85 801 111 536013 3.84 139 20 1988739 3.87 46 14 27276 3.72 3100 547 14454 3.76 1452 212 20433 3.68 710 120 45596 3.64 763 123 25376 3.85 1331 256 2765760 4.00 350 36 241236 3.88 411 89 2007 98040 0312336608 9780312336608 7 <![CDATA[The Year's Best Science Fiction: 22nd Annual Collection]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171406859m/98040.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171406859s/98040.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98040.The_Year_s_Best_Science_Fiction_22nd_Annual_Collection 4.05 55
Comprising:

Inappropriate Behaviour by Pat Murphy;
Start the Clock by Benjamin Rosenbaum;
The Third Party by David Moles;
The Voluntary State by Christopher Rowe;
Shiva in Shadow by Nancy Kress;
The People of Sand and Slag by Paolo Bacigalupi;
The Clapping Hands of God by Michael F. Flynn;
Tourism by M. John Harrison;
Scout's Honor by Terry Bisson;
Men are Trouble by James Patrick Kelly;
Mother Aegypt by Kage Baker;
Synthetic Serendipity by Vernor Vinge;
Skin Deep by Mary Rosenblum;
Delhi by Vandana Singh;
The Tribes of Bela by Albert E. Crowley;
Sitka by William Sanders;
Leviathan Wept by Daniel Abraham;
The Defenders by Colin P. Davies;
Mayflower II by Stephen Baxter;
Riding the White Bull by Caitlin R. Kiernan;
Falling Star by Brendan DuBois;
The Dragons of Summer Gulch by Robert Reed;
The Ocean of the Blind by James L. Cambias;
The Garden: A Hwarhath Science Fictional Romance by Eleanor Arnason;
Footvote by Peter F. Hamilton;
Sisyphus and the Stranger by Paul Di Filippo;
Ten Sigmas by Paul Melko;
Investments by Walter Jon Williams.]]> 12052 3.87 1828 351 20295 3.71 5736 606 20431 3.88 2960 350 21158 3.79 2729 371 1226977 3.96 297 80 73418 3.87 589 90 702278 4.06 97 11 39304 3.72 272 64 53193 3.78 3750 495 57814 3.85 801 111 10765 3.61 1264 242 482337 3.96 179 15 73422 3.78 779 127 44037 4.01 5387 587 108548 3.91 222 30 241236 3.88 411 89 377417 4.05 97 15 25375 4.03 8353 588 15188 3.89 1122 244 162927 3.62 565 94 452559 4.05 110 11 908868 3.82 190 62 142010 3.96 390 48 773064 4.01 144 37 941191 4.03 139 22 134 3.72 866 179 48960 3.74 3427 259 11473 4.07 56 9 1713767 4.02 57 8 2005 2216132 1931520526 9781931520522 13 <![CDATA[The Ant King: And Other Stories]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2216132.The_Ant_King_And_Other_Stories 4.06 33 "Urbane without being arch, sweet without being maudlin, mysterious without being cryptic."-Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing

A dazzling, postmodern debut collection of pulp and surreal fictions: a writer of alternate histories defends his patron's zeppelin against assassins and pirates; a woman transforms into hundreds of gumballs; an emancipated children's collective goes house hunting.

Benjamin Rosenbaum's stories have appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction and McSweeney's, been translated into eleven languages, and listed in The Best American Short Stories 2006. Shortlisted for the Hugo and Nebula awards, Rosenbaum's work has been reprinted in Harper's and The Year's Best Science Fiction. He lives in Switzerland with his family.

]]> 773064 4.01 144 37 2008 2975771 1892391767 9781892391766 6 <![CDATA[Year's Best Fantasy 8]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2975771.Year_s_Best_Fantasy_8 3.65 20
Contents:

*Paper Cuts Scissors by Holly Black
*A Portrait in Ivory by Michael Moorcock
*The Witch's Headstone by Neil Gaiman
*The Ruby Incomparable by Kage Baker
*And Such Small Deer by Chris Roberson
*Unpossible by Daryl Gregory
*Winter's Wife by Elizabeth Hand
*The King of the Djinn by David Ackert & Benjamin Rosenbaum
*Stilled Life by Pat Cadigan
*Poison by Bruce McAllister
*Who Slays the Gyant, Wounds the Beast by Mark Chadbourn
*Under the Bottom of the Lake by Jeffrey Ford
*A Diorama of the Infernal Regions, or the Devil's Ninth Question by Andy Duncan
*Don't Ask by M. Rickert
*The Stranger's Hands by Tad Williams
*Soul Case by Nalo Hopkinson
*Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz Go to War Again by Garth Nix
*Debatable Lands by Liz Williams
*The Forest by Laird Barron
*The Great White Bed by Don Webb
*Dance of Shadows by Fred Chappell
*Grander than the Sea by T.A. Pratt
*Princess Lucinda and the Hound of the Moon by Theodora Goss]]> 13390 3.91 615 148 237474 3.81 277 75 53193 3.78 3750 495 162936 3.63 415 113 1343790 3.86 300 101 773064 4.01 144 37 40983 3.76 1910 296 27841 3.63 808 54 463665 3.78 104 29 2795807 3.65 20 6 322402 3.76 272 55 19305 3.86 1739 327 331704 3.75 202 45 126765 3.93 46 11 25422 3.83 37439 3912 16939 3.79 16210 876 1221698 4.13 285334 26445 8347 4.03 38401 2999 34828 3.81 782 165 466494 3.74 81 29 7601 3.65 81 12 60697 3.99 522 89 880732 3.53 715 150 11890 3.80 318 69 6587 3.94 20492 1080 27528 3.88 732 116 2008 1675520 0 <![CDATA[Other Cities]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1237211403m/1675520.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1237211403s/1675520.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1675520.Other_Cities 4.14 7
Cities are seemingly inevitable, seductive, depressing, and inebriating. In his Other Cities series Benjamin Rosenbaum takes us on a tour of fourteen imaginary cities:

from "The White City" -- where two sisters fight one another and their fate -- to Bellur -- which celebrates its censors --

from Ponge -- that's already enough about that -- to Zvlotsk -- where by 1912 detective work accounted for a third of the economy

from Jouiselle-aux-Chantes -- the city of erotic forgetting -- to Stin -- the city for those who are tired of other cities --

Rosenbaum's stories illuminate the hidden corners of the world the train rider suspects exist at the stop after theirs, the tourist knows the locals will never reveal, and the mapmakers keep for themselves.

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