The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection

Editor	Gardner Dozois
Language	English
Series	The Year's Best Science Fiction
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	St. Martin's Griffin
Publication date	1998
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover & trade paperback)
Pages	623 pp
ISBN	9780312187798 (hardcover) ISBN   9780312190330 (trade paperback)
OCLC	39397318
Preceded by	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection
Followed by	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 1998. It is the 15th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series. ^{[1] [2]}

Contents

The book includes a 49-page summation by Dozois; 28 stories, all that first appeared in 1997, and each with a two-paragraph introduction by Dozois; and a seven-page referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows.

• Robert Silverberg: "Beauty in the Night"
• Paul J. McAuley: "Second Skin"
• Nancy Kress: "Steamship Soldier on the Information Front"
• Greg Egan: "Reasons to Be Cheerful"
• Stephen Baxter: "Moon Six"
• Bill Johnson: "We Will Drink a Fish Together..."
• Peter F. Hamilton: "Escape Route"
• James Patrick Kelly: "Itsy Bitsy Spider"
• Alastair Reynolds: "A Spy in Europa"
• William Sanders: "The Undiscovered"
• Alan Brennert: "Echoes"
• David Marusek: "Getting to Know You"
• Gwyneth Jones: "Balinese Dancer"
• Robert Reed: "Marrow"
• Howard Waldrop: "Heart of Whitenesse"
• Michael Swanwick: "The Wisdom of Old Earth"
• Brian Stableford: "The Pipes of Pan"
• G. David Nordley: "Crossing Chao Meng Fu"
• Greg Egan: "Yeyuka"
• Carolyn Ives Gilman: "Frost Painting"
• Walter Jon Williams: "Lethe"
• Geoffrey A. Landis: "Winter Fire"
• Ian R. MacLeod: "Nevermore"
• Simon Ings: "Open Veins"
• Ian McDonald: "After Kerry"
• Sean Williams and Simon Brown: "The Masque of Agamemnon"
• John Kessel: "Gulliver at Home"
• Gregory Benford and Elisabeth Malartre: "A Cold Dry Cradle"

References

1. Silver, Steven H (1998). "The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection". SF Site . Retrieved November 5, 2025.
2. Green, Roland (July 1998). "The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection". Booklist . 94 (21): 1868 – via Gale.

External links

• Story synapses by Brian Davies (scroll down)
• Review of Fifteenth Annual by Steven H. Silver