The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection

Editor	Gardner Dozois
Cover artist	Michael Carroll
Language	English
Series	The Year's Best Science Fiction
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	St. Martin's Press
Publication date	2000 July (collecting stories published in 1999)
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print and e-book
Pages	688 (617 of stories)
ISBN	9780312262754 (hardcover) ISBN   9780312264178 (trade paperback) ISBN   9780312271626 (e-book)
OCLC	44655078
Preceded by	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection
Followed by	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology which was compiled by Gardner Dozois and published in 2000. It won the Locus Award for best anthology in 1991. ^[1]

Contents

Like most of the books in the Year's Best Science Fiction series, the book consists of a "summation" section listing and commenting on developments in and related to science fiction in the previous year (1999), a selection of stories published in that year (each with an introduction by the editor), and a referenced list of honorable mentions from the stories not selected. The stories included in the book are as follows.

• David Marusek: "The Wedding Album"
• James Patrick Kelly: "10¹⁶ to 1"
• Robert Reed: "Winemaster"
• Alastair Reynolds: "Galactic North"
• Eleanor Arnason: "Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance"
• Stephen Baxter: "People Came from Earth"
• Richard Wadholm: "Green Tea"
• Karl Schroeder: "The Dragon of Pripyat"
• Chris Lawson: "Written in Blood"
• Frederik Pohl: "Hatching the Phoenix"
• M. John Harrison: "Suicide Coast"
• Sage Walker: "Hunting Mother"
• Ben Bova: "Mount Olympus"
• Greg Egan: "Border Guards"
• Michael Swanwick: "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur"
• Robert Silverberg: "A Hero of the Empire"
• Paul J. McAuley: "How We Lost the Moon, A True Story by Frank W. Allen"
• Charles Sheffield: "Phallicide"
• Walter Jon Williams: "Daddy's World"
• Kim Stanley Robinson: "A Martian Romance"
• Tanith Lee: "The Sky-Green Blues"
• Hal Clement: "Exchange Rate"
• Geoff Ryman: "Everywhere"
• Mike Resnick: "Hothouse Flowers"
• Sean Williams: "Evermore"
• Robert Grossbach: "Of Scorned Women and Causal Loops"
• Kage Baker: "Son Observe the Time"

References

1. "The Locus Index to SF Awards: Locus Award Nominees List". Archived from the original on May 31, 2015. Retrieved July 9, 2011.

External links

• Brief descriptions of the stories in all volumes
• Review of the collection at SF Site