Year's Best SF (Book 1)
Year's Best SF is a science fiction anthology edited by David G. Hartwell that was published in 1996. It is the first in the Year's Best SF series, which was published every year until 2013.
As a "Best Of" anthology, all the stories in this book previously appeared either in science fiction magazines, original short fiction collections, or online publications. Its importance lies in that it, and the competing Year's Best Science Fiction anthology, are representative of the best short science fiction of the year.
Contents
The book itself, as well as each of the stories, has a shortintroduction by the editor.
- James Patrick Kelly: "Think Like a Dinosaur"
- Patricia A. McKillip: "Wonders of the Invisible World"
- Robert Silverberg: "Hot Times in Magma City"
- Stephen Baxter: "Gossamer"
- Gregory Benford: "A Worm in the Well"
- William Browning Spencer: "Downloading Midnight"
- Joe Haldeman: "For White Hill"
- William Barton: "In Saturn Time"
- Ursula K. Le Guin: "Coming of Age in Karhide"
- Roger Zelazny: "The Three Descents of Jeremy Baker"
- Nancy Kress: "Evolution"
- Robert Sheckley: "The Day the Aliens Came"
- Joan Slonczewski: "Microbe"
- Gene Wolfe: "The Ziggurat"