The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection


The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Gardner Dozois, the thirty-first volume in series. It was first published in hardcover, trade paperback and ebook by St. Martin's Press in July 2014, with an edition available from the Science Fiction Book Club issued in the same month. The first British edition was published in trade paperback by Robinson in November 2014, under the alternate title The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 27.

Summary

The book collects thirty-two 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 2013 in various science fiction and other magazines.

Contents

  • "Summation: 2013"
  • "The Discovered Country"
  • "The Book Seller"
  • "Pathways"
  • "A Heap of Broken Images"
  • "Rock of Ages"
  • "Rosary and Goldenstar"
  • "Gray Wings"
  • "The Best We Can"
  • "Transitional Forms"
  • "Precious Mental"
  • "Martian Blood"
  • "Zero for Conduct"
  • "The Waiting Stars"
  • "A Map of Mercury"
  • "One"
  • "Murder on the Aldrin Express"
  • "Biographical Fragments of the Life of Julian Prince"
  • "The Plague"
  • "Fleet"
  • "The She-Wolf's Hidden Grin"
  • "Bad Day on Boscobel"
  • "The Irish Astronaut"
  • "The Other Gun"
  • "Only Human"
  • "Entangled"
  • "Earth I"
  • "Technarion"
  • "Finders"
  • "The Queen of Night's Aria"
  • "Hard Stars"
  • "The Promise of Space"
  • "Quicken"
  • "Honorable Mentions: 2013"

Awards

The anthology placed fifth in the 2015 Locus Poll Award for Best Anthology.