{"product_id":"the-years-best-science-fiction-seventeenth-annual-collection","title":"The Year's Best Science Fiction  Seventeenth Annual Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn science fictions early days  stories often looked past 1984 to the year 2000 as the far unknowable future. Here now  on the brink of the twenty-first century  the future remains as distant and as unknowable as ever . . . and science fiction stories continue to explore it with delightful results:  Collected in this anthology are such imaginative gems as:  \"The Wedding Album\" by David Marusek. In a high-tech future  the line between reality and simulation has grown thin . . . and its often hard to tell whos on what side.  \"Everywhere\" by Geoff Ryman. Do the people who live in utopian conditions ever recognize them as such?  \"Hatching the Phoenix\" by Frederik Pohl. One of science fictions Grand Masters returns with a star-crossing tale of the Heechee---the enigmatic  vanished aliens whose discarded technology guides mankind through the future.  \"A Hero of the Empire\" by Robert Silverberg. Showing that the past is as much a province of the imagination as the future  this novelette returns to an alternate history when the Roman Empire never fell to show us just how the course of history can be altered.  The twenty-seven stories in this collection imaginatively take us to nearby planets and distant futures  into the past and into universes no larger than a grain of sand. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents.  Supplementing the stories are the editors insightful summation of the years events and a 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44949457600565,"sku":"ByrdShop_0312262752","price":62.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780312262754_ca54d7f3-39d3-4077-8ab6-4109e9545eda.jpg?v=1772678789","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-years-best-science-fiction-seventeenth-annual-collection","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}