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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection

1999 anthology edited by Gardner Dozois

1999 anthology edited by Gardner Dozois

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nameThe Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection
imageThe Year's Best Science Fiction - Sixteenth Annual Collection.jpg
editorGardner Dozois
countryUnited States
languageEnglish
seriesThe Year's Best Science Fiction
genreScience fiction
publisherSt. Martin's Press
release_date1999
media_typePrint (hardcover & trade paperback)
pages609 pp
isbn9780312204457
preceded_byThe Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection
followed_byThe Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 1999. It is the 16th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series.

It was described as "whopper of a book, containing over a quarter million words of fiction."

Contents

The book includes a 49-page summation by Dozois; 25 stories, all that first appeared in 1998, and each with a two-paragraph introduction by Dozois; and a seven-page referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. Several of the stories have common themes: "Many of the stories in this collection deal with immortality ... [and] making first contact with an alien species."

The stories are as follows.

  • Greg Egan: "Oceanic"
  • Geoffrey A. Landis: "Approaching Perimelasma"
  • Cory Doctorow: "Craphound"
  • Tanith Lee: "Jedella Ghost"
  • Bruce Sterling: "Taklamakan"
  • Ursula K. Le Guin: "The Island Of the Immortals"
  • Paul J. McAuley: "Sea Change, With Monsters"
  • Robert Charles Wilson: "Divided By Infinity"
  • Howard Waldrop: "US"
  • Ian McDonald: "The Days Of Solomon Gursky"
  • Robert Reed: "The Cuckoo's Boys"
  • William Browning Spencer: "The Halfway House At the Heart Of Darkness"
  • Michael Swanwick: "The Very Pulse of the Machine"
  • Ted Chiang: "Story Of Your Life" - "the most famous story in this collection as it was turned into the movie Arrival in 2016."
  • Liz Williams: "Voivodoi"
  • Stephen Baxter: "Saddlepoint: Roughneck"
  • Rob Chilson: "This Side Of Independence"
  • Chris Lawson: "Unborn Again"
  • Tony Daniel: "Grist"
  • Gwyneth Jones: "La Cenerentola"
  • William Barton: "Down In the Dark"
  • Jim Grimsley: "Free In Asveroth"
  • Cherry Wilder: "The Dancing Floor"
  • Ian R. MacLeod: "The Summer Isles"

References

References

  1. Moore, D. J.. (March 23, 2024). "The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois".
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