Best New SF 3 (Best New)

A very impressive volume in this series, weighting in just a bit under the magic 4.00 number, at 3.95. This book is headlined by Steven 'Jumper' Gould's outstanding literally balls to the wall 'Peaches For Mad Molly' There are several other excellent pieces, and only one I thought was average. Year's Best Science Fiction 06 : Surfacing - Walter Jon Williams Year's Best Science Fiction 06 : Home Front - James Patrick Kelly Year's Best Science Fiction 06 : The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady - Brian M. Stableford Year's Best Science Fiction 06 : Peaches for Mad Molly - Steven Gould Year's Best Science Fiction 06 : The Last Article - Harry Turtledove Year's Best Science Fiction 06 : Stable Strategies for Middle Management - Eileen Gunn Year's Best Science Fiction 06 : In Memoriam - Nancy Kress Year's Best Science Fiction 06 : Kirinyaga - Mike Resnick Year's Best Science Fiction 06 : The Girl Who Loved Animals - Bruce McAllister Year's Best Science Fiction 06 : The Last of the Winnebagos - Connie Willis Year's Best Science Fiction 06 : Love in Vain - Lewis Shiner Year's Best Science Fiction 06 : The Hob - Judith Moffett Year's Best Science Fiction 06 : Our Neural Chernobyl - Bruce Sterling Year's Best Science Fiction 06 : House of Bones - Robert Silverberg Year's Best Science Fiction 06 : Schrodinger's Kitten - George Alec Effinger Year's Best Science Fiction 06 : Do Ya Do Ya Wanna Dance? - Howard Waldrop Year's Best Science Fiction 06 : The Growth of the House of Usher - Brian M. Stableford Year's Best Science Fiction 06 : Glacier - Kim Stanley Robinson Year's Best Science Fiction 06 : Sanctuary - James Lawson Year's Best Science Fiction 06 : The Dragon Line - Michael Swanwick Year's Best Science Fiction 06 : Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner - John Kessel Year's Best Science Fiction 06 : Emissary - Stephen Kraus Year's Best Science Fiction 06 : It Was the Heat - Pat Cadigan Year's Best Science Fiction 06 : Skin Deep - Kristine Kathryn Rusch Year's Best Science Fiction 06 : Dying in Hull - David Alexander Smith Year's Best Science Fiction 06 : Distances - Kathe Koja Year's Best Science Fiction 06 : Famous Monsters - Kim Newman Year's Best Science Fiction 06 : The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter - Lucius Shepard Undersea communication research alien possession accomodation. 4 out of 5 Enlistment prospect never heard of the Human Bomb, but what they say about a good big man still holds. 4 out of 5 Humans rule, ok? With some AIDS, that is. 4 out of 5 Falling off a 700 story building without a parachute is a real Howler. 5 out of 5 Passive resistance IS useless. Against ratzis, anyway. 4 out of 5 Getting a head through corporate bioengineering. 3.5 out of 5 Killer memory life wipe. 4 out of 5 Demon b@by killer Maintenance. 4 out of 5 Zoobaby. 3 out of 5 Dog photomurder blame. 4.5 out of 5 Supernatural serial killers and the high school horn. 4 out of 5 Space elves not too sheepish with anti-

Dozois is, and has long been, one of the best editors and anthologizers in all of SF. The anthology ranges over the many different sub-genres of Science Fiction, and I therefore cannot say I enjoyed all of his stories; nevertheless, all were well-written, and some of the stories were among the best I've ever read. I strongly recommend this and any other of Dozois' "Year's Best..." series.