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

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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection
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Editor Gardner Dozois
Cover artist Slawek Wojtowicz
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Series The Year's Best Science Fiction
Genre Science fiction
Publisher St. Martin's Press
Publication date
July 2010
Media typePrint (hardcover & trade paperback)
Pages688 pp
ISBN 9780312608989
Preceded by The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection  
Followed by The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection  

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. [1] It was also published in the UK as The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 23. [1]

Contents

Contents

The book includes 32 stories, all first published in 2009. The book also includes a summation by Dozois, a brief introduction to each story by Dozois and a referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows: [2]

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References

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  2. SF Signal
  3. Publisher's release, hardcover
  4. Publisher's release, paperback