Science Fiction: The Best of 2001

by Robert Silverberg (Editor), Karen Haber (Editor), Harlan Ellison (Read by)

Here in one affordable volume is the best short science fiction of the year as selected from magazines, anthologies and journals. It includes stories by Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Stephen Baxter and many more. It is the first in a prestigious new series from ibooks.

Robert Silverberg, a multiple winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards as a writer, has compiled a distinguished record as an anthologist over the past 35 years. Among the famous books he has edited are The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, the New Dimensions, Universe, and Alpha series, and the best-selling original collections, Legends and Far Horizons. His long list of well-known science fiction and fantasy novels includes such titles as Dying Inside, The Book of Skulls, Downward to the Earth, The Alien Years, and the six volumes of the Majipoor Cycle, which began with the classic Lord Valentine's Castle.

Karen Haber is the co-author of Science of the X-Men, editor of Meditations on Middle Earth and author of eight science fiction novels, including the four-volume Mutant Season series. With Robert Silverberg, she edited the Universe anthology series of original science fiction stories.

Includes:

Undone by James Patrick Kelly
Know how, can do by Michael Blumlein
From here you can see the sunquists by Richard Wadholm
Keepers of Earth by Robin Wayne Bailey
Anomalies by Gregory Benford
One of her paths by Ian Watson
Dog said bow-wow by Michael Swanwick
And no such things grow here by Nancy Kress
Sun-cloud by Stephen Baxter
Into Greenwood by Jim Grimsley
On K2 with kanakaredes by Dan Simmons

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction, Anthologies, Short Stories

Audio Cassette

First published January 29, 2002

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Robert Silverberg is a highly celebrated American science fiction author and editor known for his prolific output and literary range. Over a career spanning decades, he has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards and was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2004. Inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1999, Silverberg is recognized for both his immense productivity and his contributions to the genre's evolution.
Born in Brooklyn, he began writing in his teens and won his first Hugo Award in 1956 as the best new writer. Throughout the 1950s, he produced vast amounts of fiction, often under pseudonyms, and was known for writing up to a million words a year. When the market declined, he diversified into other genres, including historical nonfiction and erotica.
Silverberg’s return to science fiction in the 1960s marked a shift toward deeper psychological and literary themes, contributing significantly to the New Wave movement. Acclaimed works from this period include Downward to the Earth, Dying Inside, Nightwings, and The World Inside. In the 1980s, he launched the Majipoor series with Lord Valentine’s Castle, creating one of the most imaginative planetary settings in science fiction.
Though he announced his retirement from writing in the mid-1970s, Silverberg returned with renewed vigor and continued to publish acclaimed fiction into the 1990s. He received further recognition with the Nebula-winning Sailing to Byzantium and the Hugo-winning Gilgamesh in the Outback.
Silverberg has also played a significant role as an editor and anthologist, shaping science fiction literature through both his own work and his influence on others. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, author Karen Haber.