Year's Best SF

Hartwell has brought together only the best of this year's new SF from established pros and audacious newcomers, selecting only those that share the universal quality of great science fiction. Here are stories that go beyond space and time. Contents ix • Introduction: Science Fiction is Alive and Well • (1996) • essay by David G. Hartwell 1 • Think Like a Dinosaur • (1995) • novelette by James Patrick Kelly 29 • Wonders of the Invisible World • (1995) • shortstory by Patricia A. McKillip 45 • Hot Times in Magma City • (1995) • novella by Robert Silverberg 111 • Gossamer • [Xeelee] • (1995) • shortstory by Stephen Baxter 135 • A Worm in the Well • (1995) • novelette by Gregory Benford 169 • Downloading Midnight • (1995) • novelette by William Browning Spencer 203 • For White Hill • (1995) • novella by Joe Haldeman 261 • In Saturn Time • (1995) • shortstory by William Barton 283 • Coming of Age in Karhide • [Hainish] • (1995) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin 309 • The Three Descents of Jeremy Baker • (1995) • shortstory by Roger Zelazny 321 • Evolution • (1995) • novelette by Nancy Kress 353 • The Day the Aliens Came • (1995) • shortstory by Robert Sheckley 369 • Microbe • [Elysium Cycle] • (1995) • shortstory by Joan Slonczewski 387 • The Ziggurat • (1995) • novella by Gene Wolfe View Less