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Year's Best SF
''Year's Best SF'' was a science fiction anthology series edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. Hartwell started the series in 1996, and co-edited it with Cramer from 2002 until the final volume in 2013. It was published by HarperCollins under the Eos imprint. The creators of the books are not involved with the similarly titled ''Year's Best Science Fiction'' series. Cramer and Hartwell also edited an annual collection of the '' Year's Best Fantasy''. Volumes * '' Year's Best SF 1'' (1996) * '' Year's Best SF 2'' (1997) * '' Year's Best SF 3'' (1998) * ''Year's Best SF 4'' (1999) * '' Year's Best SF 5'' (2000) * '' Year's Best SF 6'' (2001) * ''Year's Best SF 7'' (2002) * ''Year's Best SF 8'' (2003) * '' Year's Best SF 9'' (2004) * '' Year's Best SF 10'' (2005) * '' Year's Best SF 11'' (2006) * '' Year's Best SF 12'' (2007) * '' Year's Best SF 13'' (2008) * '' Year's Best SF 14'' (2009) * '' Year's Best SF 15'' (2010) * '' Year's Best SF 16'' (2011) * '' Year's Best S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Year's Best SF 9
''Year's Best SF 9'' is a science fiction anthology edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer that was published in 2004. It is the ninth in the Year's Best SF series. Contents The book itself, as well as each of the stories, has a short introduction by the editors. *Octavia E. Butler: "Amnesty" (Originally in ''Sci Fiction'', 2003) *Geoff Ryman: "Birth Days" (Originally in '' Interzone'', 2003) * Tony Ballantyne: "The Waters of Meribah" (Originally in ''Interzone'', 2003) *Nancy Kress: "Ej-Es" (Originally in '' Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian'', 2003) *Joe Haldeman: "Four Short Novels" (Originally in ''F&SF'', 2003) *Charles Stross: "Rogue Farm" (Originally in '' Live Without a Net'', 2003) *Angélica Gorodischer: "The Violet's Embryos" (Originally in '' Cosmos Latinos'', 2003) *Michael Swanwick: "Coyote at the End of History" (Originally in ''Asimov's'', 2003) *John Varley: "In Fading Suns and Dying Moons" (Originally in ''Stars: Original Stories Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Book Series Introduced In 1996
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is '' codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle's ''Physics'' is called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Speculative Fiction Database
The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) is a database of bibliographic information on genres considered speculative fiction, including science fiction and related genres such as fantasy, alternate history, and horror fiction. The ISFDB is a volunteer effort, with the database being open for moderated editing and user contributions, and a wiki that allows the database editors to coordinate with each other. the site had catalogued 2,002,324 story titles from 232,816 authors. The code for the site has been used in books and tutorials as examples of database schema and organizing content. The ISFDB database and code are available under Creative Commons licensing. The site won the Wooden Rocket Award in the Best Directory Site category in 2005. Purpose The ISFDB database indexes speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror, and alternate history) authors, novels, short fiction, essays, publishers, awards, and magazines in print, electronic, and audio formats. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Year's Best SF 15
''Year's Best SF 15'' is a science fiction anthology edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer that was published in June 2010. It is the fifteenth in the Year's Best SF series. Contents The book itself, as well as each of the stories, has a short introduction by the editors. * Vandana Singh: "Infinities" (Originally in '' The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories'', 2008) * Robert Charles Wilson: "This Peaceable Land; or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe" (Originally in '' Other Rifts'', 2009) * Yoon Ha Lee: "The Unstrung Zither" (Originally in ''F&SF'', 2009) * Bruce Sterling: "Black Swan" (Originally in '' Interzone'', 2009) * Nancy Kress: "Exegesis" (Originally in ''Asimov's'', 2009) * Ian Creasey: "Erosion" (Originally in ''Asimov's'', 2009) * Gwyneth Jones: "Collision" (Originally in ''When It Changed'', 2009) * Gene Wolfe: "Donovan Sent Us" (Originally published online by ''Other Earths'', 2009) * Marissa K. Lingen: "The Calculus Plague ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Year's Best SF 14
''Year's Best SF 14'' is a science fiction anthology edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer that was published in 2009. It is the fourteenth in the Year's Best SF series. Contents The book itself, as well as each of the stories, has a short introduction by the editors. * Carolyn Ives Gilman: "Arkfall" (Originally in ''F&SF'', 2008) * Neil Gaiman: "Orange" (Originally in '' The Starry Rift'', 2008) * Kathleen Ann Goonan: "Memory Dog" (Originally in '' Asimov's'', 2008) * Paolo Bacigalupi: "Pump Six" (Originally in ''Pump Six and Other Stories'', 2008) * Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette: "Boojum" (Originally in ''Fast Ships, Black Sails'', 2008) * Ted Chiang: "Exhalation" (Originally in ''Eclipse 2'', 2008) * M. Rickert: "Traitor" (Originally in ''F&SF'', 2008) * Cory Doctorow: "The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away" (Originally published online by Tor Books, 2008) * Vandana Singh: "Oblivion: A Journey" (Originally in ''Clockwork Phoenix'', 2008) * Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Year's Best SF 13
''Year's Best SF 13'' is a science fiction anthology edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer that was published in 2008. It is the thirteenth in the Year's Best SF series. Contents The book itself, as well as each of the stories, has a short introduction by the editors. *Johanna Sinisalo: "Baby Doll" (Original English translation in ''The SFWA European Hall of Fame'', 2007) * Tony Ballantyne: "Aristotle OS" (Originally in ''Fast Forward 1'', 2007) *John Kessel: "The Last American" (Originally in ''Foundation 100'', 2007) *Gene Wolfe: "Memorare" (Originally in ''F&SF'', 2007) *Kage Baker: "Plotters and Shooters" (Originally in ''Fast Forward 1'', 2007) * Peter Watts: "Repeating the Past" (Originally in ''Nature'', 2007) * Stephen Baxter: "No More Stories" (Originally in ''Fast Forward 1'', 2007) *Robyn Hitchcock: "They Came From the Future" (Originally in ''Fast Forward 1'', 2007) * Gwyneth Jones: "The Tomb Wife" (Originally in ''F&SF'', 2007) *Marc Laidlaw: "An Evening's H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Year's Best SF 12
''Year's Best SF 12'' is a science fiction anthology edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer that was published in 2007. It is the twelfth in the Year's Best SF series. Contents The book itself, as well as each of the stories, has a short introduction by the editors. *Nancy Kress: "Nano Comes to Clifford Falls" (Originally in ''Asimov's'', 2006) *Terry Bisson: "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" (Originally in ''Golden Age SF: Tales of a Bygone Future'', 2006) *Cory Doctorow: "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth" (Originally in ''Flurb'', 2006) * Heather Lindsley: "Just Do It!" (Originally in ''F&SF'', 2006) * Gardner R. Dozois: "Counterfactual" (Originally in ''F&SF'', 2006) * Edd Vick: "Moon Does Run" (Originally in ''Electric Velocipede'', 2006) *Mary Rosenblum: "Home Movies" (Originally in ''Asimov's'', 2006) *Rudy Rucker: "Chu and the Nants" (Originally in ''Asimov's'', 2006) * Ian Creasey: "Silence in Florence" (Originally in ''Asimov's'', 2006) * Kameron Hurley: "The Women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
