{"product_id":"years-best-science-fiction-nineteenth-annual-collection","title":"Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe twenty-first century has so far proven to be exciting and wondrous and filled with challenges we had never dreamed. New possibilities previously unimagined appear almost daily . . . and science fiction stories continue to explore those possibilities with delightful results:  Collected in this anthology are such compelling stories as:  \"On K2 with Kanakaredes\" by Dan Simmons. A relentlessly paced and absorbing tale set in the near future about three mountain climbers who must scale the face of K2 with some very odd company.  \"The Human Front\" by Ken MacLeod. In this compassionate coming-of-age tale the details of life are just a bit off from things as we know them-and nothing is as it appears to be.  \"Glacial\" by Alastair Reynolds. A fascinating discovery on a distant planet leads to mass death and a wrenching mystery as spellbinding as anything in recent short fiction.  The twenty-six stories in this collection imaginatively takes us far across the universe  into the very core of our beings  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:  Eleanor Arnason Chris Beckett Michael Blumlein Michael Cassutt Brenda W. Clough Paul Di Filippo Andy Duncan Carolyn Ives Gilman Jim Grimsley Simon Ings James Patrick Kelly Leigh Kennedy Nancy Kress Ian R. MacLeod Ken MacLeod Paul J. McAuley Maureen F. McHugh Robert Reed Alastair Reynolds Geoff Ryman William Sanders Dan Simmons Allen M. Steele Charles Stross Michael Swanwick Howard Waldrop  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.  Contents xiii Summation: 2001 (2002) essay by Gardner Dozois 1 New Light on the Drake Equation (2001) novella by Ian R. MacLeod 54 More Adventures on Other Planets (2001) novelette by Michael Cassutt 73 On K2 with Kanakaredes (2001) novelette by Dan Simmons 112 When This World Is All on Fire (2001) novelette by William Sanders 131 Computer Virus (2001) novelette by Nancy Kress 175 Have Not Have (2001) novelette by Geoff Ryman 196 Lobsters Macx Family (2001) novelette by Charles Stross 222 The Dog Said Bow-Wow Darger and Surplus (2001) shortstory by Michael Swanwick 239 The Chief Designer (2001) novella by Andy Duncan 285 Neutrino Drag (2001) novelette by Paul Di Filippo 307 Glacial Revelation Space (2001) novella by Alastair Reynolds 350 The Days Between (2002) novelette by Allen Steele as by Allen M. Steele  377 One-Horse Town (2001) novelette by Howard Waldrop and Leigh Kennedy (aka One Horse Town) 411 Moby Quilt (2001) novella by Eleanor Arnason 454 Raven Dream Amerindian (2001) novelette by Robert Reed 478 Undone (2001) novelette by James Patrick Kelly 506 The Real Thing (2001) novelette by Carolyn Ives Gilman 543 Interview: On Any Given Day (2001) shortstory by Maureen F. McHugh 560 Isabel of the Fall (2001) novelette by Ian R. MacLeod 582 Into Greenwood (2001) novelette by Jim Grimsley 615 Know How  Can Do (2001) novelette by Michael Blumlein 636 Russian Vine (2001) shortstory by Simon Ings 653 The Two Dicks (2001) novelette by Paul J. McAuley as by Paul McAuley  671 May Be Some Time Captain Titus Oates (2001) novella by B. W. Clough as by Brenda W. Clough  714 Marcher (2001) shortstory by Chris Beckett 731 The Human Front (2001) novella by Ken MacLeod 781 Honorable Mentions: 2001 (2002) essay by Gardner Dozois\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966585434165,"sku":"ByrdShop_0965478130","price":40.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780965478137.jpg?v=1770570008","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/years-best-science-fiction-nineteenth-annual-collection","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}