Year's Best Science Fiction Twentieth Annual Collection

The twenty-six stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realms of the gods, and to the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: Eleanor Arnason * Kage Baker * Chris Beckett * Gregory Benford * Greg Egan * Charles Coleman Finlay * Molly Gloss * Alexander Irvine * John Kessel * Nancy Kress * Ian R. MacLeod * Paul McAuley * Ian McDonald * Maureen F. McHugh * John Meany * Steven Popkes * Robert Reed * Alastair Reynolds * Geoff Ryman * Bruce Stealing * Charles Stross * Michael Swanwick * James Van Pelt * Richard Wadholm * Walter Jon Williams Supplementing the stories is the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.Dozois, Gardner is the author of 'Year's Best Science Fiction Twentieth Annual Collection', published 2003 under ISBN 9780312308605 and ISBN 0312308604.