Year's Best Science Fiction, 12th Ed.

A very nice average of 3.83 for this volume, but a novella heavy book, so only 23 stories. Only a couple of average and one dodgy story to go along with the fine intro (some quotes below) and summary, gives this book top marks. There are several standouts, topped by George Turner's brilliant 'Flowering Mandrake'. On the book front, along with losses and musical chairs 'the new Tor, Orb and Forge lines...and Warner Aspect'. Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Forgiveness Day - Ursula K. Le Guin Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : The Remoras - Robert Reed Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Nekropolis - Maureen F. McHugh Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Margin of Error - Nancy Kress Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Cilia-of-Gold - Stephen Baxter Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Going After Old Man Alabama - William Sanders Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Melodies of the Heart - Michael F. Flynn Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : The Hole in the Hole - Terry Bisson Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Paris In June - Pat Cadigan Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Flowering Mandrake - George Turner Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : None So Blind - Joe Haldeman Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Cocoon - Greg Egan Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge - Mike Resnick Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Dead Space for the Unexpected - Geoff Ryman Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Cri de Coeur - Michael Bishop Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : The Sawing Boys - Howard Waldrop Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : The Matter of Seggri - Ursula K. Le Guin Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Ylem - Eliot Fintushel Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Asylum - Katharine Kerr Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Red Elvis - Walter Jon Williams Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : California Dreamer - Mary Rosenblum Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Split Light - Lisa Goldstein Year's Best Science Fiction 12 : Les Fleurs du Mal - Brian M. Stableford Ekumen embassy explosion entrapment unreast. 4 out of 5 Serious space ship sucker sc@m. 3.5 out of 5 AI constraints. 3.5 out of 5 Breeding philosophy nanotage. 4 out of 5 Mercurial alien life relationship. 4 out of 5 May? Marie? What's the diff? 3.5 out of 5 Slow age memory cure. 4 out of 5 Lunar halfway rover Volvo. 3.5 out of 5 Roborecorder pimping. 3.5 out of 5 Vegetable methuselah's Kal-Elesque odyssey, and brief Phoenix rising. 5 out of 5 Supergenius, you see. Not. 4 out of 5 A private policeman investigates a bombing of a biological research centre looking into natal protection of babies, when he stumbles across the fact of the company moving anyone not died in the wool h3t3ro away from the project, and realises they are also experimenting with preventing non-hetero births by controlling maternal stress factors. 4.5 out of 5 Human pest hard to eradicate. 4 out of 5 Corporate performance pressure. 4 out of 5 Tau Ceti? Not Epsilon Eridani? Holy Crow! 4.5 out of 5 Music caper stop