Alastair Preston Reynolds is a Welsh science fiction author. He specialises in hard science fiction and space opera.
Gardner Raymond Dozois was an American science fiction author and editor. He was the founding editor of The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies (1984–2018) and was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine (1986–2004), garnering multiple Hugo and Locus Awards for those works almost every year. He also won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story twice. He was inducted to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on June 25, 2011.
Lavie Tidhar is an Israeli-born writer, working across multiple genres. He has lived in the United Kingdom and South Africa for long periods of time, as well as Laos and Vanuatu. As of 2013, Tidhar has lived in London. His novel Osama won the 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, beating Stephen King's 11/22/63 and George R. R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons. His novel A Man Lies Dreaming won the £5000 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize, for Best British Fiction, in 2015. He won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 2017, for Central Station.
The Year's Best Science Fiction was a series of science fiction anthologies edited by American Gardner Dozois until his death in 2018. The series, which is unrelated to the similarly titled and themed Year's Best SF, was published by St. Martin's Griffin. The collections were produced annually for 35 years starting in 1984.
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by American writer Gardner Dozois, published in 2004. It is the 21st in The Year's Best Science Fiction series. The anthology was published in the UK as The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction 17.
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois, published in 2005. It is the 22nd in The Year's Best Science Fiction series. The anthology was published in the UK as The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 18th Annual Collection.
Reactor, formerly Tor.com, is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine published by Tor Books, a division of Macmillan Publishers. The magazine publishes articles, reviews, original short fiction, re-reads and commentary on speculative fiction. Unlike traditional print magazines like Asimov's or Analog, it releases online fiction that can be read free of charge.
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published on June 23, 2009. It is the 26th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series.
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published on July 6, 2010. It is the 27th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series. It was also published in the UK as The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 23.
The 1983 Annual World's Best SF is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha, the twelfth volume in a series of nineteen. It was first published in paperback by DAW Books in May 1983, followed by a hardcover edition issued in September of the same year by the same publisher as a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club. For the hardcover edition the original cover art was replaced by a new cover painting by Richard Powers.
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published on July 3, 2012. It is the 29th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series. It was also published in the UK as The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 25.
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published on July 23, 2013. It is the 30th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series.
Abyss & Apex Magazine (A&A) is a long-running, semi-pro online speculative fiction magazine. The title of the zine comes from a quote by Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), "And if you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." The stories and poetry therefore follow the pattern of "how would humans react?" if a new technology or a type of magic or supernatural power affected them.
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published on July 7, 2015. It is the 32nd in The Year's Best Science Fiction series.
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Gardner Dozois, the tenth volume in an ongoing series. It was first published in hardcover by St. Martin's Press in June 1993, with a trade paperback edition following in July 1993 and a book club edition co-issued with the Science Fiction Book Club in September 1993. The first British edition were published in hardcover by Robinson in September of the same year, under the alternate title Best New SF 7.
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.
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.
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Gardner Dozois, the thirty-third volume in an ongoing series. It was first published in hardcover, trade paperback and ebook by St. Martin's Press in July 2016. The first British edition was published in trade paperback by Robinson in July 2016, under the alternate title The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 29.
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Gardner Dozois, the thirty-fourth volume in an ongoing series. It was first published in hardcover, trade paperback and ebook by St. Martin's Griffin in July 2017.
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Gardner Dozois, the thirty-fifth volume in a series. It was first published in hardcover, trade paperback and ebook by St. Martin's Griffin in July 2018. This is the last book in the series due to the editor's death.
