Year's Best SF 13

The thirteenth annual collection of the previous year's finest short-form sf is at hand. Once again, award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer have gathered together a stunning array of science fiction that spans a veritable universe of astonishing visions and bold ideas. Hitherto unexplored galaxies of the mind are courageously traversed by some of the most exciting new talents in the field--while well-established masters rocket to remarkable new heights of artistry and originality. The stars are closer and more breathtaking than ever before--and a miraculous future now rests in your hands--within the pages of Year's Best SF 13.Contentsxi • Introduction (Year's Best SF 13) • (2008) • essay by Kathryn Cramer and David G. Hartwell1 • Baby Doll • (2007) • novelette by Johanna Sinisalo (trans. of Baby Doll (in Finnish) 2002)27 • Aristotle OS • (2007) • shortstory by Tony Ballantyne41 • The Last American • (2007) • shortstory by John Kessel60 • Memorare • (2007) • novella by Gene Wolfe143 • Plotters and Shooters • (2007) • novelette by Kage Baker164 • Repeating the Past • (2007) • shortstory by Peter Watts168 • No More Stories • (2007) • shortstory by Stephen Baxter185 • They Came from the Future • (2007) • poem by Robyn Hitchcock189 • The Tomb Wife • (2007) • shortstory by Gwyneth Jones207 • An Evening's Honest Peril • (2007) • novelette by Marc Laidlaw229 • End Game • (2007) • shortstory by Nancy Kress244 • Induction • (2007) • shortstory by Greg Egan261 • A Blue and Cloudless Sky • (2007) • novelette by Bernhard Ribbeck (trans. of En blå og skyfri himmel 1996)299 • Reasons not to Publish • (2007) • shortstory by Gregory Benford304 • Objective Impermeability in a Closed System • (2007) • shortstory by William Shunn319 • Always • (2007) • shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler334 • Who's Afraid of Wolf 359? • (2007) • shortstory by Ken MacLeod349 • Artifice and Intelligence • (2007) • shortstory by Tim Pratt359 • Pirates of the Somali Coast • (2007) • shortstory by Terry Bisson375 • Sanjeev and Robotwallah • [India 2047] • (2007) • shortstory by Ian McDonald395 • Third Person • (2007) • shortstory by Tony Ballantyne413 • The Bridge • (2007) • novelette by Kathleen Ann Goonan443 • As You Know, Bob • (2007) • shortstory by John G. Hemry [as by John Hemry ]453 • The Lustration • (2007) • novelette by Bruce Sterling474 • How Music Begins • (2007) • novelette by James Van Pelt