The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection


The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Gardner Dozois, the fifth volume in an ongoing series. It was first published in hardcover and trade paperback by St. Martin's Press in May 1988, with the latter reprinted in June 1994. The first British edition was published in hardcover and trade paperback by Robinson in September 1988, under the alternate title Best New SF 2.

Summary

The book collects twenty-eight 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 1987 in various science fiction and other magazines.

Contents

  • "Summation: 1987"
  • "Rachel in Love"
  • "Dream Baby"
  • "Flowers of Edo"
  • "Forever Yours, Anna"
  • "At the Cross-Time Jaunter's Ball"
  • "Dinosaurs"
  • "Perpetuity Blues"
  • "The Temporary King"
  • "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight"
  • "The Pardoner's Tale"
  • "Glass Cloud"
  • "The Evening and the Morning and the Night"
  • "Night of the Cooters"
  • "Angel"
  • "Shades"
  • "The Faithful Companion at Forty"
  • "Candle in a Cosmic Wind"
  • "The Emir's Clock"
  • "Ever After"
  • "The Forest of Time"
  • "The Million-Dollar Wound"
  • "The Moon of Popping Trees"
  • "Diner"
  • "All the Hues of Hell"
  • "Halley's Passing"
  • "America"
  • "For Thus Do I Remember Carthage"
  • "Mother Goddess of the World"
  • "Honorable Mentions: 1987"

Awards

The anthology placed second in the 1989 Locus Poll Award for Best Anthology.