Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology

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Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology
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First edition
AuthorEdited by Sheila Williams
Cover artist Michael Whelan
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Science fiction anthology
Publisher Tachyon Publications
Publication date
2007
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages349 pp
ISBN 978-1-892391-47-6
OCLC 145499823

Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology (2007) is a science fiction anthology edited by Sheila Williams, the editor of Asimov's Science Fiction , of short stories that were all originally published in Asimov's. The book includes a five-page introduction by Williams, in which she briefly reviews the history of the magazine and clarifies that the book is merely a sampling from the magazine's history, not an attempt at a "best of", because that would have to run to many volumes. The book includes seventeen short stories, and a nine-page set of brief author biographies at the end.

The stories are as follows, with dates of original publication in Asimov's:

AuthorShort storyYear of original publication in Asimov'sAnnotation
John Varley (under the pseudonym Herb Boehm)Air Raid19771977 was the debut issue of Asimov's
Robert Silverberg The Time of the Burning1982
Octavia E. Butler Speech Sounds1983
Bruce Sterling Dinner in Audoghast1985
Isaac Asimov Robot Dreams1986
Kim Stanley Robinson Glacier1988
Connie Willis Cibola1990
Jonathan Lethem The Happy Man1991
Mike Resnick Over There1991
Ursula K. Le Guin Ether, OR1995
Kelly Link Flying Lessons19961996 was the debut publication by Link
James Patrick Kelly Itsy Bitsy Spider1997
Michael Swanwick Ancient Engines1999
Charles Stross Lobsters2001
Lucius Shepard Only Partly Here2003
Stephen Baxter The Children of Time2005
Robert Reed Eight Episodes2006

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