''Year's Best SF 13'' is a science fiction anthology edited by
David G. Hartwell
David Geddes Hartwell (July 10, 1941 – January 20, 2016) was an American critic, publisher, and editor of thousands of science fiction and fantasy novels. He was best known for work with Signet, Pocket, and Tor Books publishers. He was also no ...
and
Kathryn Cramer
Kathryn Elizabeth Cramer (born April 16, 1962) is an American science fiction writer, editor, and literary critic.
Early years
Kathryn Cramer is the daughter of physicist John G. Cramer. She grew up in Seattle and graduated from Columbia Univer ...
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.
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Johanna Sinisalo: "Baby Doll" (Original English translation in ''The SFWA European Hall of Fame'', 2007)
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Tony Ballantyne: "Aristotle OS" (Originally in ''Fast Forward 1'', 2007)
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John Kessel
John Joseph Vincent Kessel (born September 24, 1950) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. He is a prolific short story writer, and the author of four solo novels, '' Good News From Outer Space'' (1989), ''Corrupting Dr. Nice'' ...
: "The Last American" (Originally in ''Foundation 100'', 2007)
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Gene Wolfe
Gene Rodman Wolfe (May 7, 1931 – April 14, 2019) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He was noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith. He was a prolific short story writer and no ...
: "Memorare" (Originally in ''
F&SF
''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (usually referred to as ''F&SF'') is a U.S. fantasy and science-fiction magazine, first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press. Editors Anthony Bouche ...
'', 2007)
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: "Plotters and Shooters" (Originally in ''Fast Forward 1'', 2007)
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Peter Watts: "Repeating the Past" (Originally in ''
Nature
Nature is an inherent character or constitution, particularly of the Ecosphere (planetary), ecosphere or the universe as a whole. In this general sense nature refers to the Scientific law, laws, elements and phenomenon, phenomena of the physic ...
'', 2007)
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Stephen Baxter: "No More Stories" (Originally in ''Fast Forward 1'', 2007)
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Robyn Hitchcock
Robyn Rowan Hitchcock (born 3 March 1953) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. While primarily a vocalist and guitarist, he also plays harmonica, piano, and bass guitar. After leading the Soft Boys in the late 1970s and releasing the ...
: "They Came From the Future" (Originally in ''Fast Forward 1'', 2007)
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Gwyneth Jones: "The Tomb Wife" (Originally in ''F&SF'', 2007)
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Marc Laidlaw
Marc Laidlaw is an American writer. He is a former lead writer for the video game company Valve, where he worked on the ''Half-Life'' series before his departure in 2016. Before joining Valve, Laidlaw was a novelist working in the fantasy and ...
: "An Evening's Honest Peril" (Originally in ''
Flurb #3'', 2007)
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Nancy Kress
Nancy Anne Kress (born January 20, 1948) is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo- and Nebula-winning novella '' Beggars in Spain'' (1991), which becam ...
: "End Game" (Originally in ''
Asimov's
''Asimov's Science Fiction'' is an American science fiction magazine edited by Sheila Williams and published by Dell Magazines, which is owned by Penny Press. It was launched as a quarterly by Davis Publications in 1977, after obtaining Isaac A ...
'', 2007)
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Greg Egan
Greg Egan (born 20 August 1961) is an Australian science fiction writer and mathematician, best known for his works of hard science fiction. Egan has won multiple awards including the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Hugo Award, and the Lo ...
: "
Induction" (Originally in ''Foundation 100'', 2007)
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Bernhard Ribbeck: "A Blue and Cloudless Sky" (Original English translation in ''The SFWA European Hall of Fame'', 2007)
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Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford (born January 30, 1941) is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is professor emeritus at the department of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. He is a contributing editor of ''Reason ...
: "Reasons Not to Publish" (Originally in ''Nature'', 2007)
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William Shunn: "Objective Impermeability in a Closed System" (Originally in ''An Alternate History of the 21st Century'', 2007)
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Karen Joy Fowler
Karen Joy Fowler is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. Her work often centers on the 19th century, nineteenth century, the Woman, lives of women, and social alienation.
She is best known as the author of the b ...
: "Always" (Originally in ''Asimov's'', 2007)
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Ken MacLeod
Kenneth Macrae MacLeod (born 2 August 1954) is a Scottish science fiction writer. His novels ''The Sky Road'' and '' The Night Sessions'' won the BSFA Award. MacLeod's novels have been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke, Hugo, Nebula, Locus ...
: "
Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?
"Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?" is a science fiction short story by British writer Ken MacLeod, published in 2007. It was nominated for the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. It is set in the same fictional universe as MacLeod's 2005 novel ''Lea ...
" (Originally in ''
The New Space Opera
''The New Space Opera'' is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan. It was published in 2007, and includes all original stories selected to represent the genre of space opera. It includes a five-page introduction, ...
'', 2007)
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Tim Pratt
Timothy Aaron Pratt (born December 12, 1976) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and poet. He won a Hugo Award in 2007 for his short story " Impossible Dreams". He has written over 20 books, including the Marla Mason series and sev ...
: "Artifice and Intelligence" (Originally in ''
Strange Horizons
''Strange Horizons'' is an online magazine, online speculative fiction magazine. It also features speculative poetry and non-fiction in every issue, including reviews, essays, interviews, and roundtables.
History and profile
It was launched in S ...
'', 2007)
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Terry Bisson
Terry Ballantine Bisson (February 12, 1942 – January 10, 2024) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was best known for his short stories, including " Bears Discover Fire", which won the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, and " T ...
: "Pirates of the Somali Coast" (Originally in ''Subterranean 7'', 2007)
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Ian McDonald: "Sanjeev and Robotwallah" (Originally in ''Fast Forward 1'', 2007)
*Tony Ballantyne: "Third Person" (Originally in ''The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction'', 2007)
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: "The Bridge" (Originally in ''Asimov's'', 2007)
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John G. Hemry
John G. Hemry ( LCDR, USN ret.; born April 14, 1956), is an American author of military science fiction novels. Drawing on his experience as a retired United States Navy officer, he has written the ''Stark's War'' and ''Paul Sinclair'' series. U ...
: "As You Know, Bob" (Originally in ''
Analog
Analog or analogue may refer to:
Computing and electronics
* Analog signal, in which information is encoded in a continuous variable
** Analog device, an apparatus that operates on analog signals
*** Analog electronics, circuits which use analog ...
'', 2007)
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Bruce Sterling
Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author known for his novels and short fiction and editorship of the ''Mirrorshades'' anthology. In particular, he is linked to the cyberpunk subgenre.
Sterling's first ...
: "The Lustration" (Originally in ''Eclipse 1'', 2007)
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James Van Pelt
James Van Pelt (born 1954 in Akron, Ohio) is an American science fiction author who began publishing in the mid-90s. He is also a teacher in the language arts department at Fruita Monument High School in Fruita, Colorado.
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Biography
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: "How Music Begins" (Originally in ''Asimov's'', 2007)
External links
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