The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection

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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection
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Dust jacket of first edition
Editor Gardner Dozois
Cover artist Jim Burns
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Series The Year's Best Science Fiction
Genre Science fiction
Publisher St. Martin's Press
Publication date
2014
Media typePrint (hardcover & trade paperback)
Pagesxliii & 705 pp
ISBN 9781250046208
Preceded by The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection  
Followed by The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection  

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Gardner Dozois, the thirty-first volume in series. It was first published in hardcover, trade paperback and ebook by St. Martin's Press in July 2014, with an edition available from the Science Fiction Book Club issued in the same month. The first British edition was published in trade paperback by Robinson in November 2014, under the alternate title The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 27. [1]

Contents

Summary

The book collects thirty-two novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introductory summation of the year, notes and concluding bibliography by the editor. The stories were previously published in 2013 in various science fiction and other magazines. [1]

Contents

Awards

The anthology placed fifth in the 2015 Locus Poll Award for Best Anthology. [1]

Notes


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