The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection

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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection
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Editor Gardner Dozois
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Series The Year's Best Science Fiction
Genre Science fiction
Publisher St. Martin's Griffin
Publication date
1996 (collecting stories originally published in 1995)
Pages640 (586 of story text)
ISBN 9780312144517 (hardcover) ISBN   9780312144524 (trade paperback)
OCLC 34884302
Preceded by The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection  
Followed by The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection  

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection is a 1996 science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois. It is the 13th in the Year's Best Science Fiction series. It won the Locus Award for best anthology.

Contents

The book opens with a 39-page writeup by Dozois which summarizes and comments on major developments in science fiction literature and film in 1995. The main body of the book contains 24 stories (all originally published in 1995), an introduction by Dozois opening each story, and a 6-page referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories included in the book are as follows.

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