Year's Best SF 6

The Barnes & Noble ReviewScience fiction as short fiction is perhaps my favorite form of the literary genre, and David G. Hartwell's Year's Best series is a collection -- full of humor, drama, style, and surprises -- that never disappoints. Here are just some of the high points in the Sixth Edition. Contents ix • Introduction (Year's Best SF 6) • essay by David G. Hartwell 1 • Reef • (2000) • novelette by Paul J. McAuley 35 • Reality Check • (2000) • shortstory by David Brin 39 • The Millennium Express • (2000) • shortstory by Robert Silverberg 61 • Patient Zero • (2000) • shortstory by Tananarive Due 81 • The Oort Crowd • (2000) • shortstory by Ken MacLeod 85 • The Thing About Benny • (2000) • shortstory by M. Shayne Bell 95 • The Last Supper • (2000) • shortstory by Brian Stableford 113 • Tuberculosis Bacteria Join UN • (2000) • shortstory by Joan Slonczewski 117 • Our Mortal Span • (2000) • shortstory by Howard Waldrop 130 • Different Kinds of Darkness • [Blit] • (2000) • shortstory by David Langford 143 • New Ice Age, or Just Cold Feet? • (2000) • shortfiction by Norman Spinrad 147 • The Devotee • (2000) • novelette by Stephen Dedman 189 • The Marriage of Sky & Sea • (2000) • shortstory by Chris Beckett 210 • In the Days of the Comet • (2000) • shortstory by John M. Ford 214 • The Birthday of the World • (2000) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin 248 • Oracle • (2000) • novella by Greg Egan 303 • To Cuddle Amy • (2000) • shortstory by Nancy Kress 308 • Steppenpferd • (2000) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss 322 • Sheena 5 • [Manifold] • (2000) • shortstory by Stephen Baxter 343 • The Fire Eggs • (2000) • shortstory by Darrell Schweitzer 358 • The New Horla • (2000) • shortstory by Robert Sheckley 372 • Madame Bovary, C'est Moi • (2000) • shortstory by Dan Simmons 377 • Grandma's Jumpman • (2000) • shortstory by Robert Reed 398 • Bordeaux Mixture • (2000) • shortfiction by Henry Gee [as by Charles Dexter Ward ] 402 • The Dryad's Wedding • (2000) • novelette by Robert Charles Wilson 427 • Built Upon the Sands of Time • (2000) • shortstory by Michael F. Flynn 445 • Seventy-Two Letters • (2000) • novella by Ted Chiang