The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection

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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth 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 Press
Publication date
1989
Media typePrint (hardcover & trade paperback)
Pagesxxxiv & 612 pp
ISBN 9780312030094
Preceded by The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection  
Followed by The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection  

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 1989. It is the 6th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series and winner of the Locus Award for best anthology. [1]

Contents

Contents

The book includes a 17-page summation by Dozois; 28 stories, all that first appeared in 1988, and each with a two-paragraph introduction by Dozois; and a referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows.

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