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      Paperback The Year's Best Science Fiction Book
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      ISBN: 0312204450

      ISBN13: 9780312204457

      The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection

      (Part of the The Year's Best Science Fiction (#16) Series and The Year's Best Science Fiction (#16) Series)

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      Book Overview

      The future, the past, and life today are boldly imagined and reinvented in the twenty-five stories collected in this showcase anthology. Many of the field's finest practitioners are represented here,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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      Rated 5 stars
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      By Thriftbooks.com User,

      A bit weaker for a Year's Best collection this book, averaging only 3.77, which as all other anthologies go is still excellent. The long introduction and overview by Dozois is still the same quality as other editions. Year's Best Science Fiction 16 : Oceanic - Greg Egan Year's Best Science Fiction 16 : Approaching Perimelasma - Geoffrey A. Landis Year's Best Science Fiction 16 : Cr*phound - Cory Doctorow Year's Best Science...

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      Rated 5 stars
      Worth it for the Chiang and Le Guin stories alone.

      By Thriftbooks.com User,

      Gardner Dozois always comes out with a very good Year's Best collection, but it seems as though the Sixteenth Annual Collection is one of the best in recent memory. There's the obvious mention of Ted Chiang's brilliant Nebula Award-winning "Story of Your Life," which is quite clearly among the finest stories in the past decade. Chiang himself is an accomplished stylist and he uses original and inventive ideas to aid the human...

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      Rated 4 stars
      Not as strong as previous years

      By Thriftbooks.com User,

      Although some stories were quite good, the overall impact left me wanting more. Some of the stories were more fantasy than science fiction. I especially enjoyed the 14th edition as it had a majority of "hard" science fiction. I keep buying this each year however as the quality is always quite good. More science in the science fiction would have rated 5 stars.

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