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Hardcover Year's Best Science Fiction Book

ISBN: 0312060084

ISBN13: 9780312060084

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Annually assembling the best science fiction of the year, this series continues to live up to its name with the most original, innovative, and wonderful short fiction published in 1990. A thorough... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Book publishing numbers up again, according to Dozois. He points out one interesting statistic - 57% of new SF books were part of a series or something like that, as opposed to original. This volume too is up from the last one, making it to 3.70, so with the usual long summary and recommended reading list bonus points, a solid 4.5 on its now. Three standout stories, too. Year's Best Science Fiction 08 : Mr. Boy - James Patrick Kelly Year's Best Science Fiction 08 : The Shobies' Story - Ursula K. Le Guin Year's Best Science Fiction 08 : The Caress - Greg Egan Year's Best Science Fiction 08 : A Braver Thing - Charles Sheffield Year's Best Science Fiction 08 : We See Things Differently - Bruce Sterling Year's Best Science Fiction 08 : And the Angels Sing - Kate Wilhelm Year's Best Science Fiction 08 : Past Magic - Ian R. MacLeod Year's Best Science Fiction 08 : Bears Discover Fire - Terry Bisson Year's Best Science Fiction 08 : The All-Consuming - Lucius Shepard and Robert Frazier Year's Best Science Fiction 08 : Personal Silence - Molly Gloss Year's Best Science Fiction 08 : Invaders - John Kessel Year's Best Science Fiction 08 : The Cairene Purse - Michael Moorcock Year's Best Science Fiction 08 : The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk - Dafydd ab Hugh Year's Best Science Fiction 08 : Tower of Babylon - Ted Chiang Year's Best Science Fiction 08 : The Death Artist - Alexander Jablokov Year's Best Science Fiction 08 : The First Since Ancient Persia - John Brunner Year's Best Science Fiction 08 : Inertia - Nancy Kress Year's Best Science Fiction 08 : Learning to Be Me - Greg Egan Year's Best Science Fiction 08 : Cibola - Connie Willis Year's Best Science Fiction 08 : Walking the Moons - Jonathan Lethem Year's Best Science Fiction 08 : Rainmaker Cometh - Ian McDonald Year's Best Science Fiction 08 : Hot Sky - Robert Silverberg Year's Best Science Fiction 08 : White City - Lewis Shiner Year's Best Science Fiction 08 : Love and S3x Among the Invertebrates - Pat Murphy Year's Best Science Fiction 08 : The Hemingway Hoax - Joe W. Haldeman Not wanting to grow up attitude certainly isn't helped by mum's mechanical approach to parenting. 3.5 out of 5 Look, it's full of stars. 3 out of 5 An enhanced policeman gets entangled in a billionaire's bizarre Dr Moreau creations as art and save the child schemes. 4 out of 5 Black bagged mate's Nobel notebook space travel cribbing award speech shocker. 4 out of 5 Downtrodden rock tour coke killer. 4 out of 5 Alien escapee local journalism. 4 out of 5 Nailing the ex for cloning. 3.5 out of 5 Hibernatin's a big ol' waste of time. 4 out of 5 Deadly deviant dishes means fungus faced diner's chef leavetaking. 4 out of 5 Boat builder death story. 3.5 out of 5 Alien Flash of conquistador history waffle. 3 out of 5 Sister's alien lovechild leaving lethality. 4 out of 5 Plague Dogs leveler love. 4.5 out of 5 Built like
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