The Year's Best Science Fiction Eighteenth Annual Collection

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The twenty-three stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe into the very core of our being to the realm of the gods and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents including: Stephen Baxter M.Shayne Bell Rick Cook Albert E. Cowdrey Tananarive Due Greg Egan Eliot Fintushel Peter F. Hamilton Earnest Hogan John Kessel Nancy Kress Ursula K. Le Guin Paul J. McAuley Ian McDonald Susan Palwick Severna Park Alastair Reynolds Lucius Shepard Brian Stableford Charles Stross Michael Swanwick Steven Utley Robert Charles Wilson Supplementing the stories is the editors insightful summation of the years events and lengthy list of honorable mentions making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.