The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction

For decades, the Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after thirty-five annual collections. comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies. In The Very Best of the Best, legendary editor Gardner Dozois selects the finest short stories for this landmark collection.Contents:- Preface by Gardner Dozois- The Potter of Bones by Eleanor Arnason- Rogue Farm by Charles Stross- The Little Goddess by Ian McDonald- Dead Men Walking by Paul McAuley- Tin Marsh by Michael Swanwick- Good Mountain by Robert Reed- Where the Golden Apples Grow by Kage Baker- The Sledge-maker's Daughter by Alastair Reynolds- Glory by Greg Egan- Finisterra by David Moles- The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm by Daryl Gregory- Utriusque Cosmi by Robert Charles Wilson- Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance by John Kessel- Useless Things by Maureen McHugh- Boojum*) by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear- Hair by Adam Roberts- The Things by Peter Watts- The Emperor of Mars by Allen M. Steele- Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain by Yoon Ha Lee- Martian Heart by John Barnes- The Invasion of Venus by Stephen Baxter- Weep for Day by Indrapramit Das- The Girl-thing Who Went Out for Sushi by Pat Cadigan- The Memcordist by Lavie Tidhar- The Best We Can by Carrie Vaughn- The Discovered Country by Ian R. MacLeod- Pathways by Nancy Kress- The Hand Is Quicker... by Elizabeth Bear- Someday by James Patrick Kelly- The Long Haul, From the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009 by Ken Liu- Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight by Aliette De Bodard- Calved by Sam J. Miller- Emergence by Gwyneth Jones- Rates of Change by James S.A. Corey- Jonas and the Fox by Rich Larson- Kit: Some Assembly Required by Kathe Koja and Carter Scholz- Winter Timeshare by Ray Nayler- My English Name by R.S. Benedict*) The story included is Boojum, not Mongoose as indicated