The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 2001. It is the 18th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series and won a 2002 Locus Award for best anthology.
Contents
The book includes a 39-page summation of the year by Dozois, 23 stories that first appeared in 2000, and a seven-page referenced list of honorable mentions for the year.The stories are as follows:
- John Kessel: "The Juniper Tree"
- Charles Stross: "Antibodies"
- Ursula K. Le Guin: "The Birthday Of the World"
- Nancy Kress: "Savior"
- Paul J. McAuley: "Reef"
- Susan Palwick: "Going After Bobo"
- Albert E. Cowdrey: "Crux"
- Severna Park: "The Cure For Everything"
- Peter F. Hamilton: "The Suspect Genome"
- Michael Swanwick: "The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-o"
- Lucius Shepard: "The Radiant Green Star"
- Alastair Reynolds: "Great Wall of Mars"
- Eliot Fintushel: "Milo and Sylvie"
- Brian Stableford: "Snowball In Hell"
- Stephen Baxter: "On the Orion Line"
- Greg Egan: "Oracle"
- Rick Cook and Ernest Hogan: "Obsidian Harvest"
- Tananarive Due: "Patient Zero"
- Charles Stross: "A Colder War"
- Steven Utley: "The Real World"
- M. Shayne Bell: "The Thing About Benny"
- Robert Charles Wilson: "The Great Goodbye"
- Ian McDonald: "Tendeléo's Story"