This has been showing up all over, starting with a post from Gardner Dozois on the forum at the Asimov's site. Everyone's probably seen this list of the contents of the next edition of Year's Best Science Fiction by now, but I figured I'd post it here also and a draw some attention to a couple of things. Swanwick, Reed and Baxter were all represented with very good entries in the last edition, and it's no surprise to see them in the line-up again since they are all quite prolific and good in the short form. I am glad (and also not surprised) to see two pieces by McDonald. He also showed up twice in the last volume with two super fine stories. He's a writer I am newly very interested in (posted about him a few posts back). I dig how he deals with wild tech and its impact in "third world" societies. I just started reading Terminal Cafe, and will have a book report on that soon. I'm also glad to see in this list some names that I don't recognize. Maybe they've been out there for years and I'm just out of touch, but these are some that will be new to me at least: Bacigalupi, Kowal, Rajaniemi, Sellar. I didn't see where a lot of this stuff was originally published, but I would assume that most of it was in the usual suspects (Asimov's, F&SF, Analog, Interzone and some original anthologies), but it would be cool to see some items from the smaller press or the e-press make these lists sometime (I'm sure tons of them will rate a mention in the long "honorable mentions" list that always concludes these volumes). I know that Dozois appears to take the time to look at a lot of these sources because he always introduces this collection with a very extensive summation of the year's activities in publishing. The series itself, I think, is valuable because it gathers together a lot of good "real" SF in one place. Dozois doesn't get very much into anything that would be called fantasy or horror or "slipstream," and that's good, because there's plenty of other venues for all of that. Here's the list:
TURING’S APPLES, Stephen Baxter
FROM BABEL’S FALL’N GLORY WE FLED, Michael Swanwick
THE GAMBLER, Paolo Bacigalupi
BOOJUM, Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette
THE SIX DIRECTIONS OF SPACE, Alastair Reynolds
N-WORDS, Ted Kosmatka
AN ELIGIBLE BOY, Ian McDonald
SHINING ARMOUR, Dominic Green
THE HERO, Karl Schroeder
EVIL ROBOT MONKEY, Mary Robinette Kowal
FIVE THRILLERS, Robert Reed
THE SKY THAT WRAPS THE WORLD ROUND, PAST THE BLUE AND INTO THE BLACK, Jay Lake
INCOMERS, Paul McAuley
CRYSTAL NIGHTS, Greg Egan
THE EGG MAN, Mary Rosenblum
HIS MASTER’S VOICE, Hannu Rajaniemi
THE POLITICAL PRISONER, Charles Coleman Finlay
BALANCING ACCOUNTS, James L. Cambias
SPECIAL ECONOMICS, Maureen McHugh
DAYS OF WONDER, Geoff Ryman
CITY OF THE DEAD, Paul McAuley
THE VOYAGE OUT, Gwyneth Jones
THE ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY OF LORD GRIMM, Daryl Gregory
G-MEN, Kristine Kathryn Rusch
THE ERDMANN NEXUS, Nancy Kress
OLD FRIENDS, Garth Nix
THE RAY-GUN: A LOVE STORY, James Alan Gardner
LESTER YOUNG AND THE JUPITER’S MOONS’ BLUES, Gord Sellar
BUTTERFLY, FALLING AT DAWN, Aliete de Bodard
THE TEAR, Ian McDonald
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