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The Years Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection Free FREE THE YEARS BEST SCIENCE FICTION: TWENTY- SIXTH ANNUAL COLLECTION PDF Gardner Dozois | 639 pages | 06 Jul 2009 | Griffin Publishing | 9780312551056 | English | California, United States The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection - Wikipedia Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Stephen Baxter Contributor. Karl Schroeder The Years Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection. Robert Reed Goodreads Author Contributor. Jay Lake Contributor. Greg Egan Contributor. Mary Rosenblum Contributor. Hannu Rajaniemi Contributor. Finlay Goodreads Author Contributor. James L. Cambias Goodreads Author Contributor. Michael Swanwick Contributor. Maureen F. McHugh Contributor. Geoff Ryman The Years Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection. Gwyneth Jones Contributor. Daryl Gregory Goodreads Author Contributor. Nancy Kress Goodreads Author Contributor. Garth Nix Goodreads Author Contributor. Aliette de Bodard Goodreads Author Contributor. Paolo Bacigalupi Goodreads Author Contributor. Elizabeth Bear Goodreads Author Contributor. Sarah Monette Goodreads Author Contributor. Alastair Reynolds Contributor. Ian McDonald Contributor. Dominic Green Goodreads Author Contributor. Ted Kosmatka Goodreads Author Contributor. Gord Sellar Contributor. The thirty stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Cambias, Greg Egan, Charles Cole The thirty stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published June 29th by St. Martin's Griffin first published October More Details Original Title. Locus Award Nominee for Best Anthology Other Editions 1. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Sep 21, Mir rated it really liked it Shelves: science- fictionshort-stories. As is generally the case with this type of anthology, I didn't read every story. I cherry-picked a few authors I usually like, then read some additional stories because they happened to come after a story I had finished and have a good opening, picked a few to try by title. Stephen Baxter "Turing's Apples" -- Interesting, but the story got buried under description and world-building. I could say the same about quite a few of the entries, I have to admit. I would not, in general, recommend this vo As is generally the case with this type of anthology, I didn't read every story. I would not, in general, recommend this volume for people who are not already sci-fi fans. Ditto Karl Schroeder's "Hero," which is set in an interesting but very alien and complex world that he also writes novels in, which sucks up most of the pages with its exposition. This would have been especially boring if I had read any of his books and already knew how the multiple artificial suns and giant space moths and stuff worked. So if those sound intriguing, I recommend getting one of his novels instead. Michael Swanwick "From Babel's Fallen Glory We Fled" -- I never quite got my head around how Trust functioned as an economic unit, but that's okay because the difficulty of translation and intercultural understanding is one of the themes The Years Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection. Excellent story that would not be out of place in a collection such as Text-Ur. Pretty cool. I wonder if it is ever The Years Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection elsewhere what happened to the important item I won't spoiler. Good world-building, which I hear is generally a strong point for Bodard. I'd read more in this universe. Ian MacDonald's "Eligible Boy" was a cute concept, but I didn't enjoy the bulk of the story with the Indian men competing to win wives. Nice end showever. I quit "Six Directions of Space" at the horse-torturing scene, so I will never find out if certain characters behavior was a trick of some kind or if I was right in finding them implausible. For The Years Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection reason, I had never thought I would be into Alastair Reynolds. Bummer the guy died so young. Because there are people who don't give a crap about the Kennedy Assassination, sorry. I might read more Paul McCauley. Hopefully without giant vicious rat-insect swarm aliens or dead dogs. I guess lesbians never stop being edgy in sci-fi? I'd already read this recently in Black Sails. Daryl Gregory "Illustrated The Years Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection of Lord Grimm" -- It's not much fun being a peon in a city that is perpetually ravaged by the conflicts of superpowers. Like a number of other stories in this collection, I thought it was a bit too heavy-handedly a contemporary political critique but hey, I can't argue that there isn't plenty to criticize. It started off interestingly, with a double or triple agent returning from the field. But then there is a coup, and the rest of the novella I wouldn't have read it if I had checked the page count spent in a gulag. Not badly done, if you're into soul-destroying and back-breaking prison conditions. He's just an angry genius monkey who wants to be a potter instead of a zoo animal. Your story for Black Sails was boring, too. I used to usually like his stuff, not sure if it's him or me. Note: I read an online edition of this story that GR does not allow to be listed. This story is another Sci-fi alt-history [murder] mystery. Again it follows an MC who is not Xuyan by birth or rearing - instead has chosen to live in Xuya due to circumstances in their past. This story was interesting but the most interesting part of it was the I am not sure how much time has passed between "The Lost Xuyan Bride" and this one - but it appears that more than years has passed. There has been a terrible civil war in Mexica and a lot of people migrated to Xuya. The MC and the victim are both refugees. The story presented an interesting picture of what it means to be changed by a war - how it changes the core of who you are and the actions you take. The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Carolyn Ives Gilman Contributor. Paul Cornell Goodreads Author The Years Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection. Stephen Baxter Contributor. Ian McDonald Contributor. Alastair Reynolds Contributor. Maureen F. McHugh Contributor. Catherynne M. Valente Goodreads Author Contributor. Jay Lake Contributor. Dave Hutchinson Contributor. Geoff Ryman Contributor. David Moles Contributor. Tom Purdom Contributor. Ian R. MacLeod Contributor. David Klecha Contributor. Tobias S. Buckell Goodreads Author Contributor. Robert Reed Goodreads Author Contributor. Gwyneth Jones Contributor. Lavie Tidhar Contributor. Michael Flynn Contributor. Pat Cadigan Goodreads Author Contributor. Michael Swanwick Contributor. Damien Broderick The Years Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection. Yoon Ha Lee Contributor. Jim Hawkins Contributor. Peter M. Ball Goodreads Author Contributor. Chris Lawson Contributor. Ken MacLeod Contributor. Kij Johnson Contributor. Elizabeth Bear Goodreads Author Contributor. John Barnes Contributor. Karl Schroeder Contributor. Peter S. Beagle Goodreads Author Contributor. In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? Get A Copy. Published July 3rd by St. Martin's Press first published More Details Original Title. Jonathan HamiltonJackaroo 0. Other Editions 7. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Then more engineering specs and someone almost dies in a very unbelievable situation. Then they all live kinda-happily ever The Years Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection. Another page or two and I admitted that I didn't care and moved on to the next story. Well plotted, strong characters, believable premise. A fun read. SF still has a long way to go when it comes to well-rounded, believable characters. View 1 comment. Maybe a little more than four stars, as I really enjoyed this collection. Even more than the more recent editions of this series 28 and Those books contained mainly stories set on earth in a not too distant future, dealing with climate change, technological upgrades and computer science. I like those stories too, don't get me wrong, but I like the stories included here better: tales of a far future, where science had developed to such a level that it is hard to distinguish from magic and h Maybe a little more than four stars, as I really enjoyed this collection. I like those stories too, don't get me wrong, The Years Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection I like the stories included here better: tales of a far future, where science had developed to such a level that it is hard to distinguish from magic and humanity or consciousness takes on strange forms.
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