Best of the Best

For years, The Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after twenty-one annual collections, comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies, The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction, in which legendary editor Gardner Dozois selects the very best short stories for this landmark collection. Contributors include: * Stephen Baxter * Greg Bear * William Bigson * Terry Bisson * Pat Cadigan * Ted Chiang * John Crowley * Tony Daniel * Greg Egan * Molly Gloss * Eileen Gunn * Joe Haldeman * James Patrick Kelly * John Kessel * Nancy Kress * Ursula K. Le Guin * Ian R. MacLeod * David Marusek * Paul McAuley * Ian McDonald * Maureen F. McHugh * Robert Reed * Mike Resnick * Geoff Ryman * William Sander * Lucius Shepard * Robert Silverberg * Brian Stableford * Bruce Sterling * Charles Stross * Michael Swanwick * Steven Utley * Howard Waldrop * Walter Jon Williams * Connie Willis * Gene Wolfe
With work spanning two decades, The Best of the Best stands as one of the ultimate science fiction anthologies ever published.

Foreword: Robert Silverberg
Preface: Gardner Dozois
Greg Bear: "Blood Music"
Gene Wolfe: "A Cabin on the Coast"
Lucius Shepard: "Salvador"
Nancy Kress: "Trinity"
Howard Waldrop: "Flying Saucer Rock and Roll"
Bruce Sterling: "Dinner in Audoghast"
Pat Cadigan: "Roadside Rescue"
John Crowley: "Snow"
William Gibson: "The Winter Market"
John Kessel: "The Pure Product"
Eileen Gunn: "Stable Strategies for Middle Management"
Mike Resnick: "Kirinyaga"
Robert Silverberg: "Tales from the Venia Woods"
Terry Bisson: "Bears Discover Fire"
Connie Willis: "Even the Queen"
Robert Reed: "Guest of Honor"
Joe Haldeman: "None So Blind"
Brian Stableford: "Mortimer Gray's History of Death"
Maureen F. McHugh: "The Lincoln Train"
Greg Egan: "Wang's Carpets"
Ursula K. Le Guin: "Coming of Age in Karhide"
Michael Swanwick: "The Dead"
Ian McDonald: "Recording Angel"
Tony Daniel: "A Dry, Quiet War"
William Sanders: "The Undiscovered"
Paul J. McAuley: "Second Skin"
Ted Chiang: "Story of Your Life"
Stephen Baxter: "People Came From Earth"
David Marusek: "The Wedding Album"
James Patrick Kelly: "1016 To 1"
Walter Jon Williams: "Daddy's World"
Steven Utley: "The Real World"
Geoff Ryman: "Have Not Have"
Charles Stross: "Lobsters"
Ian R. MacLeod: "Breathmoss"
Molly Gloss: "Lambing Season"