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The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction | 
 enlarge | Creators: Gardner Dozois, Robert Silverberg
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 208434
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 688
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 2
ISBN: 031233656X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.0876608
EAN: 9780312336561
ASIN: 031233656X
Publication Date: February 1, 2005
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Product Description
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.
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 A superior collection of thought provoking fiction. June 4, 2005
Edward Alexander Gerster (South Miami, FL USA)
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
Gardner Dozois has once again put together a collection of short speculative fiction that every reader of science fiction should have on their shelf. It is filled with a twenty year progression of stories that both reflect the times they were written, and their relevance today as well.
Dozois did a very wise thing while putting together this anthology by choosing stories that made the most significant impact on him as a reader, rather than picking award winners or short stories that have been widely reprinted. Therefore you get Nancy Kress's "Trinity" rather than her much published "Beggars in Spain," and James Patrick Kelly's "10(16) to 1" instead of his "Think Like A Dinosaur."
Some of my favorites I was happy to find enclosed as well by Pat Cadigan, Joe Haldeman, Ursula K. Le Guin and Eileen Gunn. A stellar group of stories that comes Highly Recommended.
fine compilation January 25, 2005
Harriet Klausner
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
Following twenty for the most part superior collections of the "Year's Best Science Fiction', Gardner Dozois provides a look back cross section of those he felt were the best, albeit a relative term in this case. This new compilation of stories previously published in the series does not contain one tale from each annual, but instead has multiples from the same year with only the 1987 and 1991 book omitted. The tales represent some of the genre's top guns over the past two decades with each entry top rate. This reviewer has been a long time fans of the series not just because the selections are always superb, but because they can be savored over a week or two; the same holds true for the all star selection. Fans of the series will appreciate this look back with fond memories while newcomers will get a taste of what has been consistently one of best science fiction short story anthologies.
Harriet Klausner
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction May 26, 2009
Francis D. Groboski (Lisbon, Maryland USA)
When I finish the The Year's Best Science Fiction series I will look forward to reading The Best of the Best (Volume 1), thanks to Amazon and another great online purchasing experience.
Well worth it. November 5, 2009
N. Wold
I bought this book for $22 bucks at a book store to get an obscure story it contained, and I should say that this book is well worth the price, especially for the $10 Amazon sells it for. It's almost five hundred pages of great passages of imaginative stories. I personally like it because you don't have to devote too much time to it as you would with other books. Stories in this range from a page to ten, and you can sit down and blow through one in a sitting then put it down if you'd like. These are all great stories, many of them winning the Nebula award, or a few others awards. Well worth the buy.
Not Free SF Reader January 7, 2008
Blue Tyson
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
Dozois chooses the stories from the first 21 volumes of his series that he liked the most as a reader, without regard to type, or who wrote them, in general.
As such, perhaps likely to be a bit idosyncratic and maybe not come out as well as a broader church approach. Even so there are a wide range and variety of stories to be found here.
However, it comes as no surprise to me that I like what Dozois is doing, and as such there are several 5 star and 4.5 star stories here. So when Robert Silverberg says in his foreword that this is an instant classic science fiction anthology it is hard to argue when you have so many qualities of that quality. It does manage to average in an excellent Year's Best type range of 3.79.
You also get some stories from the earlier publisher of this series, volumes of which will be a lot harder (and more expensive) to find.
Most definitely worth having.
Best of the Best : Blood Music - Greg Bear
Best of the Best : A Cabin on the Coast - Gene Wolfe
Best of the Best : Salvador - Lucius Shepard
Best of the Best : Trinity - Nancy Kress
Best of the Best : Flying Saucer Rock & Roll - Howard Waldrop
Best of the Best : Dinner in Audoghast - Bruce Sterling
Best of the Best : Roadside Rescue - Pat Cadigan
Best of the Best : Snow - John Crowley
Best of the Best : The Winter Market - William Gibson
Best of the Best : The Pure Product - John Kessel
Best of the Best : Stable Strategies for Middle Management - Eileen Gunn
Best of the Best : Kirinyaga - Mike Resnick
Best of the Best : Tales from the Venia Woods - Robert Silverberg
Best of the Best : Bears Discover Fire - Terry Bisson
Best of the Best : Even the Queen - Connie Willis
Best of the Best : Guest of Honor - Robert Reed
Best of the Best : None So Blind - Joe Haldeman
Best of the Best : Mortimer Gray's History of Death - Brian Stableford
Best of the Best : The Lincoln Train - Maureen F. McHugh
Best of the Best : Wang's Carpets - Greg Egan
Best of the Best : Coming of Age in Karhide by Sov Thade Tage em Ereb of Rer in Karhide on Gethen - Ursula K. Le Guin
Best of the Best : The Dead - Michael Swanwick
Best of the Best : Recording Angel - Paul J. McAuley
Best of the Best : A Dry Quiet War - Tony Daniel
Best of the Best : The Undiscovered - William Sanders
Best of the Best : Second Skin - Paul J. McAuley
Best of the Best : Story of Your Life - Ted Chiang
Best of the Best : People Came from Earth - Stephen Baxter
Best of the Best : The Wedding Album - David Marusek
Best of the Best : Ten16 to 1 - James Patrick Kelly
Best of the Best : Daddy's World - Walter Jon Williams
Best of the Best : The Real World - Steven Utley
Best of the Best : Have Not Have - Geoff Ryman
Best of the Best : Lobsters - Charles Stross
Best of the Best : Breathmoss - Ian R. MacLeod
Best of the Best : Lambing Season - Molly Gloss
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Blackout showstopper.
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Demon baby killer Maintenance.
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4 out of 5
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4 out of 5
Average explorer losses.
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Africaforming.
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Predicting language.
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Time traveler wants kid to save the world, at least with Galaxy and Green Lantern preparation he has a decent shot at it.
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Dead boy's program needs maturity.
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Silurian search maybe entertaining.
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Fashion business.
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Starmandog.
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