The 21st edition of the award-winning annual compilation of the year's best science fiction stories.
Gardner Dozois has been the editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine since 1985 and has received the Hugo Award for Best Editor eleven times. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Acknowledgments
viii
(1)
Summation: 1996
ix
IMMERSION
1
(46)
Gregory Benford
THE DEAD
47
(9)
Michael Swanwick
THE FLOWERS OF AULIT PRISON
56
(26)
Nancy Kress
A DRY, QUIET WAR
82
(17)
Tony Daniel
THIRTEEN PHANTASMS
99
(10)
James P. Blaylock
PRIMROSE AND THORN
109
(33)
Bud Sparhawk
THE MIRACLE OF IVAR AVENUE
142
(25)
John Kessel
THE LAST HOMOSEXUAL
167
(11)
Paul Park
RECORDING ANGEL
178
(10)
Ian McDonald
DEATH DO US PART
188
(15)
Robert Silverberg
THE SPADE OF REASON
203
(15)
Jim Cowan
THE COST TO BE WISE
218
(36)
Maureen F. McHugh
BICYCLE REPAIRMAN
254
(25)
Bruce Sterling
THE WEIGHING OF AYRE
279
(32)
Gregory Feeley
THE LONGER VOYAGE
311
(19)
Michael Cassutt
THE LAND OF NOD
330
(20)
Mike Resnick
RED SONJA AND LESSINGHAM IN DREAMLAND
350
(12)
Gwyneth Jones
THE LADY VANISHES
362
(11)
Charles Sheffield
CHRYSALIS
373
(34)
Robert Reed
THE WIND OVER THE WORLD
407
(23)
Steven Utley
CHANGES
430
(15)
William Barton
COUNTING CATS IN ZANZIBAR
445
(12)
Gene Wolfe
HOW WE GOT IN TOWN AND OUT AGAIN
457
(18)
Jonathan Lethem
DR. TILMANN'S CONSULTANT: A SCIENTIFIC ROMANCE
475
(17)
Cherry Wilder
SCHRODINGER'S DOG
492
(26)
Damien Broderick
FOREIGN DEVILS
518
(17)
Walter Jon Williams
IN THE MSOB
535
(4)
Stephen Baxter
THE ROBOT'S TWILIGHT COMPANION
539
(51)
Tony Daniel
HONORABLE MENTIONS: 1996
590
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