The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection


The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Gardner Dozois, the tenth volume in an ongoing series. It was first published in hardcover by St. Martin's Press in June 1993, with a trade paperback edition following in July 1993 and a book club edition co-issued with the Science Fiction Book Club in September 1993. The first British edition were published in hardcover by Robinson in September of the same year, under the alternate title Best New SF 7.

Summary

The book collects twenty-four novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introductory summation of the year, notes and concluding bibliography by the editor. The stories were previously published in 1991 and 1992 in various science fiction and other magazines.

Contents

  • "Summation: 1992"
  • "Griffin's Egg"
  • "Even the Queen"
  • "The Round-Eyed Barbarians"
  • "Dust"
  • "Two Guys from the Future"
  • "The Mountain to Mohammed"
  • "The Coming of Vertumnus"
  • "A Long Night's Vigil at the Temple"
  • "The Hammer of God"
  • "Grownups"
  • "Graves"
  • "The Glowing Cloud"
  • "Gravity's Angel"
  • "Protection"
  • "The Last Cardinal Bird in Tennessee"
  • "Birth Day"
  • "Naming Names"
  • "The Elvis National Theater of Okinawa"
  • "The Territory"
  • "The Best and the Rest of James Joyce"
  • "Naming the Flowers"
  • "Snodgrass"
  • "By the Mirror of My Youth"
  • "Outnumbering the Dead"
  • "Honorable Mentions: 1992"

Awards

The anthology placed first in the 1994 Locus Poll Award for Best Anthology.