The Year's Best Science Fiction
''The Year's Best Science Fiction'' was a series of science fiction anthology, anthologies edited by American Gardner Dozois until his death in 2018. The series, which is unrelated to the similarly titled and themed ''Year's Best SF'', was published by St. Martin's Press, St. Martin's Griffin. The collections were produced annually for 35 years starting in 1984. In the UK, the series was titled ''The Mammoth Book Of Best New Science Fiction'' and published by Constable & Robinson, Robinson. ''The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection, The Fourth Annual Collection in the US'', in 1987, became the ''first'' book of the "Mammoth series" in the UK. For the next five years, from 1988 through 1993, the UK series was titled ''Best New SF'' (#2 through #7). Best of the Best series In 2005, Dozois edited the Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction, first "Best of the Best" compilation. A Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Year's Best Short Sci ...
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Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ...
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Eighth Annual Collection
Eighth is ordinal form of the number eight. Eighth may refer to: * One eighth, or ⅛, a fraction, one of eight equal parts of a whole * Eighth note (quaver), a musical note played for half the value of a quarter note (crotchet) * Octave, an interval between seventh and ninth * Eighth octave C, a C note * Eighth Lake, a lake by Inlet, New York See also * 1/8 (other) * 8 (other) * The 8th (other) * The Eighth Day (other) The Eighth Day may refer to: Observances * Octave (liturgical) * Shemini Atzeret, the eighth day of the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles * The eighth day (Christian) Film * ''Gattaca'', a 1997 film with working title ''The Eighth Day'' * ''On the ...

Twentieth Annual Collection
20 (twenty; Roman numeral XX) is the natural number following 19 (number), 19 and preceding 21 (number), 21. A group of twenty units may also be referred to as a score. In mathematics *20 is a pronic number. *20 is a tetrahedral number as 1, 4, 10, 20. *20 is the basis for vigesimal number systems. *20 is the third composite number to be the product of a squared prime and a prime, and also the second member of the (''2''2)''q'' family in this form. *20 is the smallest primitive abundant number. *An icosahedron has 20 faces. A dodecahedron has 20 vertices. *20 can be written as the sum of three Fibonacci numbers uniquely, i.e. 20 = 13 + 5 + 2. *20 is the number of moves (quarter or half turns) required to optimally solve a Rubik's Cube in the worst case. (e.g. the newspaper headline "Scores of Typhoon Survivors Flown to Manila")."CBS News"''Scores of Typhoon Survivors Flown to Manila'' (November 2013) In sports * Twenty20 is a form of limited overs cricket where each team ...
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