Year’s Best Sf 13

Description

The thirteenth annual collection of the previous year’s finest short-form sf is at hand. Once again, award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer have gathered together a stunning array of science fiction that spans a veritable universe of astonishing visions and bold ideas. Hitherto unexplored galaxies of the mind are courageously traversed by some of the most exciting new talents in the field—while well-established masters rocket to remarkable new heights of artistry and originality. The stars are closer and more breathtaking than ever before—and a miraculous future now rests in your hands—within the pages of Year’s Best SF 13.

Contents

xi • Introduction (Year’s Best SF 13) • (2008) • essay by Kathryn Cramer and David G. Hartwell
1 • Baby Doll • (2007) • novelette by Johanna Sinisalo (trans. of Baby Doll (in Finnish) 2002)
27 • Aristotle OS • (2007) • shortstory by Tony Ballantyne
41 • The Last American • (2007) • shortstory by John Kessel
60 • Memorare • (2007) • novella by Gene Wolfe
143 • Plotters and Shooters • (2007) • novelette by Kage Baker
164 • Repeating the Past • (2007) • shortstory by Peter Watts
168 • No More Stories • (2007) • shortstory by Stephen Baxter
185 • They Came from the Future • (2007) • poem by Robyn Hitchcock
189 • The Tomb Wife • (2007) • shortstory by Gwyneth Jones
207 • An Evening’s Honest Peril • (2007) • novelette by Marc Laidlaw
229 • End Game • (2007) • shortstory by Nancy Kress
244 • Induction • (2007) • shortstory by Greg Egan
261 • A Blue and Cloudless Sky • (2007) • novelette by Bernhard Ribbeck (trans. of En blå og skyfri himmel 1996)
299 • Reasons not to Publish • (2007) • shortstory by Gregory Benford
304 • Objective Impermeability in a Closed System • (2007) • shortstory by William Shunn
319 • Always • (2007) • shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
334 • Who’s Afraid of Wolf 359? • (2007) • shortstory by Ken MacLeod
349 • Artifice and Intelligence • (2007) • shortstory by Tim Pratt
359 • Pirates of the Somali Coast • (2007) • shortstory by Terry Bisson
375 • Sanjeev and Robotwallah • [India 2047] • (2007) • shortstory by Ian McDonald
395 • Third Person • (2007) • shortstory by Tony Ballantyne
413 • The Bridge • (2007) • novelette by Kathleen Ann Goonan
443 • As You Know, Bob • (2007) • shortstory by John G. Hemry [as by John Hemry ]
453 • The Lustration • (2007) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
474 • How Music Begins • (2007) • novelette by James Van Pelt