The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection

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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth 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
July 8, 2008
Media typePrint (hardcover & trade paperback)
Pages672 pp
ISBN 9780312378608
OCLC 191924873
Preceded by The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection  
Followed by The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection  

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published on July 8, 2008. It is the 25th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series and won the Locus Award for best anthology. [1] The UK edition is titled The Mammoth Book Of Best New SF 21, the "21st Annual Collection" ( ISBN   978-1845298289) and contains the same stories listed.

Contents

The book includes 32 stories, all that were first published in 2007. The book also includes a summation by Dozois, a two-paragraph introduction to each story by Dozois and a referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows:

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References

  1. "The Locus Index to SF Awards: Locus Award Nominees List". Archived from the original on May 31, 2015. Retrieved July 9, 2011.
  2. Note: Robotwallah: a neologism: robot + wala, the latter being an agentive suffix; literally "robot driver"