The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection

Widely regarded as the essential book for every science fiction fan, The Years Best Science Fiction continues to uphold its standard of excellence with more than two dozen stories from the previous year. This years volume includes Michael Swanwick, Geoff Ryman, Allen Steele, Nancy Kress, Robert Reed, Michael Cassott, Charles Stross, and many other bright talents of science fiction, as well as the usual thorough summations of the year and a recommended reading list.

Gardner Dozois has been working in the science fiction field for more than thirty years. Since 1985, he has been the editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, during which time he has received the Hugo Award for Best Editor twelve times. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

SUMMATION: 2001

NEW LIGHT ON THE DRAKE EQUATION, Ian R. MacLeod
MORE ADVENTURES ON OTHER PLANETS, Michael Cassutt
ON K2 WITH KANAKAREDES, Dan Simmons
WHEN THIS WORLD IS ALL ON FIRE, William Sanders
COMPUTER VIRUS, Nancy Kress
HAVE NOT HAVE, Geoff Ryman
LOBSTERS, Charles Stross
THE DOG SAID BOW-WOW, Michael Swanwick
THE CHIEF DESIGNER, Andy Duncan
NEUTRINO DRAG, Paul Di Filppo
GLACIAL, Alastair Reynolds
THE DAYS BETWEEN, Allen M. Steele
ONE-HORSE TOWN, Howard Waldrop and Leigh Kennedy
MOBY QUILT, Eleanor Arnason
RAVEN DREAM, Robert Reed
UNDONE, James Patrick Kelly
THE REAL THING, Carolyn Ives Gilman
INTERVIEW: ON ANY GIVEN DAY, Maureen F. McHugh
ISABEL OF THE FALL, Ian R. MacLeod
INTO GREENWOOD, Jim Grimsley
KNOW HOW, CAN DO, Michael Blumlein
RUSSIAN VINE, Simon Ings
THE TWO DICKS, Paul McAuley
MAY BE SOME TIME, Brenda W. Clough
MARCHER, Chris Beckett
THE HUMAN FRONT, Ken MacLeod

HONORABLE MENTIONS: 2001