false 223449 3 <div>In science fiction's early days, stories often looked past 1984 to the year 2000 as the far unknowable future. Here now, on the brink of the twenty-first century, the future remains as distant and as unknowable as ever . . . and science fiction stories continue to explore it with delightful results:<br><br>Collected in this anthology are such imaginative gems as:<br><br>"The Wedding Album" by David Marusek. In a high-tech future, the line between reality and simulation has grown thin . . . and it's often hard to tell who's on what side.<br><br>"Everywhere" by Geoff Ryman. Do the people who live in utopian conditions ever recognize them as such?<br><br>"Hatching the Phoenix" by Frederik Pohl. One of science fiction's Grand Masters returns with a star-crossing tale of the Heechee---the enigmatic, vanished aliens whose discarded technology guides mankind through the future.<br><br>"A Hero of the Empire" by Robert Silverberg. Showing that the past is as much a province of the imagination as the future, this novelette returns to an alternate history when the Roman Empire never fell to show us just how the course of history can be altered.<br><br>The twenty-seven stories in this collection imaginatively take us to nearby planets and distant futures, into the past and into universes no larger than a grain of sand. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents.<br><br>Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a lengthy 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.<br></div> Comprising: The Wedding Album by David Marusek; 10^16 to 1 by James Patrick Kelly; Winemaster by Robert Reed; Galactic North by Alastair Reynolds; Dapple: A <i>Hwarhath</i> Historical Romance by Eleanor Arnason; People Came From Earth by Stephen Baxter; Green Tea by Richard Wadholm; The Dragon of Pripyat by Karl Schroeder; Written in Blood by Chris Lawson; Hatching the Phoenix by Frederik Pohl; Suicide Coast by M. John Harrison; Hunting Mother by Sage Walker; Mount Olympus by Ben Bova; Border Guards by Greg Egan; Scherzo with Tyrannosaur by Michael Swanwick; A Hero of the Empire by Robert Silverberg; How We Lost the Moon, A True Story by Frank W. Allen by Paul J. McAuley; Phallicide by Charles Sheffield; Daddy's World by Walter Jon Williams; A Martian Romance by Kim Stanley Robinson; The Sky-Green Blues by Tanith Lee; Exchange Rate by Hal Clement; Everywhere by Geoff Ryman; Hothouse Flowers by Mike Resnick; Evermore by Sean Williams; OF Scorned Women and Causal Loops by Robert Grossbach; Son Observe the Time by Kage Baker. 1448777 12 8 2000 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection total:51|5:13|4:25|3:11|2:2|1:0| 51 202 98 4 4 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 27 19:14:12 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 25 05:07:09 -0700 2008 A Dirty Job and Oryx and Crake and Cat's Eye, this one was the...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Mar 21 13:28:07 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 09 09:48:37 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 10:39:26 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 08 05:28:54 -0700 2008 ]]> 0 0 false false Sat Nov 01 03:19:53 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 01 06:56:35 -0700 2008

The Wedding Album, Marusek
People Came from Earth, Baxter

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