The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection

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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection
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Dust cover of first edition
Editor Gardner Dozois
Cover artistDominic Harman
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Series The Year's Best Science Fiction
Genre Science fiction
Publisher St. Martin's Press
Publication date
2003
Media typePrint (hardcover & trade paperback)
Pagesxxxix & 648 pp
ISBN 9780312308599
Preceded by The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection  
Followed by The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection  

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Gardner Dozois, the twentieth volume in an ongoing series. It was first published in hardcover and trade paperback by St. Martin's Press in July 2003, with a book club edition co-issued with the Science Fiction Book Club, and an ebook edition following in August of the same year. The first British edition was published in trade paperback by Robinson in December 2003, under the alternate title The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 16th Annual Collection. [1]

Contents

Summary

The book collects twenty-five 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 2002 in various science fiction and other magazines. [1]

Contents

Awards

The anthology placed first in the 2004 Locus Poll Award for Best Anthology. [1]

Notes

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