The Year's Best Science Fiction

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.

Summation: 1998

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Oceanic

1

(36)

Greg Egan

Approaching Perimelasma

37

(19)

Geoffrey A. Landis

Craphound

56

(16)

Cory Doctorow

Jedella Ghost

72

(15)

Tanith Lee

Taklamakan

87

(31)

Bruce Sterling

The Island of the Immortals

118

(8)

Ursula K. Le Guin

Sea Change, With Monsters

126

(35)

Paul J. McAuley

Divided by Infinity

161

(20)

Robert Charles Wilson

US

181

(10)

Howard Waldrop

The Days of Solomon Gursky

191

(43)

Ian McDonald

The Cuckoo's Boys

234

(43)

Robert Reed

The Halfway House at the Heart of Darkness

277

(12)

William Browning Spencer

The Very Pulse of the Machine

289

(15)

Michael Swanwick

Story of Your Life

304

(35)

Ted Chiang

Voivodoi

339

(10)

Liz Williams

Saddlepoint: Roughneck

349

(44)

Stephen Baxter

The Side of Independence

393

(11)

Rob Chilson

Unborn Again

404

(12)

Chris Lawson

Grist

416

(46)

Tony Daniel

La Cenerentola

462

(14)

Gwyneth Jones

Down in the Dark

476

(34)

William Barton

Free in Asveroth

510

(14)

Jim Grimsley

The Dancing Floor

524

(20)

Cherry Wilder

The Summer Isles

544

(59)

Ian R. MacLeod

Honorable Mentions: 1998

603

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