Year's Best SF 5 (Year's Best SF #5)

Acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell returns with this fifth annual collection of the year's most imaginative, entertaining, and mind-expanding science fiction.

Here are works from some of today's most acclaimed authors, as well as visionary new talents, that will introduce you to new ideas, offer unusual perspectives, and take you to plac

Acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell returns with this fifth annual collection of the year's most imaginative, entertaining, and mind-expanding science fiction.

Here are works from some of today's most acclaimed authors, as well as visionary new talents, that will introduce you to new ideas, offer unusual perspectives, and take you to places beyond your wildest imaginings.

Contents

xiii • Introduction (Year's Best SF 5) • (2000) • essay by David G. Hartwell
1 • Everywhere • (1999) • shortstory by Geoff Ryman
14 • Evolution Never Sleeps • (1999) • shortstory by Elisabeth Malartre
36 • Sexual Dimorphism • (1999) • shortstory by Kim Stanley Robinson
57 • Game of the Century • (1999) • novelette by Robert Reed
94 • Secrets of the Alien Reliquary • (1998) • poem by Michael Bishop
97 • Kinds of Strangers • (1999) • novelette by Sarah Zettel
124 • Visit the Sins • (1999) • shortstory by Cory Doctorow
145 • Border Guards • (1999) • novelette by Greg Egan
174 • Macs • (1999) • shortstory by Terry Bisson (aka macs)
186 • Written in Blood • (1999) • shortstory by Chris Lawson
204 • Has Anybody Seen Junie Moon? • (1999) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe
222 • The Blue Planet • (1999) • shortstory by Robert J. Sawyer
229 • Lifework • (1999) • shortstory by Mary Soon Lee
238 • Rosetta Stone • (2000) • shortstory by Fred Lerner
255 • An Apollo Asteroid • (1999) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
271 • 100 Candles • (1999) • shortstory by Kurt Wohleber
288 • Democritus' Violin • (1999) • shortstory by G. David Nordley
311 • Fossil Games • (1999) • novelette by Tom Purdom
362 • Valour • (1999) • shortstory by Chris Beckett
379 • Huddle • [Manifold] • (1999) • novelette by Stephen Baxter
404 • Ashes and Tombstones • (1999) • shortstory by Brian Stableford [as by Brian M. Stableford ]
422 • Ancient Engines • (1999) • shortstory by Michael Swanwick
433 • Freckled Figure • (1992) • shortstory by Hiroe Suga
457 • Shiva • (1999) • shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
466 • The Queen of Erewhon • (1999) • novelette by Lucy Sussex