''Year's Best SF 9'' 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 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.
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Octavia E. Butler
Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer who won several awards for her works, including Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to recei ...
: "Amnesty" (Originally in ''
Sci Fiction
''Sci Fiction'' was an online magazine which ran from 2000 to 2005. At one time, it was the leading online science fiction magazine. Published by Syfy and edited by Ellen Datlow, the work won multiple awards before it was discontinued.
His ...
'', 2003)
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Geoff Ryman
Geoffrey Charles Ryman (born 1951) is a Canadian writer of science fiction, fantasy, slipstream and historical fiction. Ryman has written and published seven novels, including an early example of a hypertext novel, '' 253''. He has won multiple ...
: "Birth Days" (Originally in ''
Interzone'', 2003)
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Tony Ballantyne: "The Waters of Meribah" (Originally in ''Interzone'', 2003)
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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 ...
: "Ej-Es" (Originally in ''
Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian'', 2003)
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Joe Haldeman
Joe William Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American people, American science fiction author and former college professor. He is best known for his novel ''The Forever War'' (1974), which was inspired by his experiences as a combat soldier ...
: "Four Short Novels" (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 ...
'', 2003)
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Charles Stross
Charles David George "Charlie" Stross (born 18 October 1964) is a British writer of science fiction and fantasy. Stross specialises in hard science fiction and space opera. Between 1994 and 2004, he was also an active writer for the magazine ' ...
: "Rogue Farm" (Originally in ''
Live Without a Net'', 2003)
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Angélica Gorodischer
Angélica Gorodischer (28 July 1928 – 5 February 2022) was an Argentine writer whose short stories and novels belong to a wide variety of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, and crime. Her literature has a feminist perspective.
Biogra ...
: "The Violet's Embryos" (Originally in ''
Cosmos Latinos'', 2003)
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Michael Swanwick
Michael Swanwick (born November 18, 1950) is an American list of fantasy authors, fantasy and List of science-fiction authors, science fiction author who began publishing in the early 1980s.
Writing career
Swanwick's fiction writing began w ...
: "Coyote at the End of History" (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 ...
'', 2003)
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John Varley: "In Fading Suns and Dying Moons" (Originally in ''Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian'', 2003)
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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 ...
: "Castaway" (Originally in ''Sci Fiction'', 2003)
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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 ...
: "The Hydrogen Wall" (Originally in ''Asimov's'', 2003)
* Ricard de la Casa and Pedro Jorge Romero: "The Day We Went Through the Transition" (Originally in ''Cosmos Latinos'', 2003)
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Cory Doctorow
Cory Efram Doctorow (; born 17 July 1971) is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog ''Boing Boing''. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of th ...
: "Nimby and the Dimension Hoppers" (Originally in ''Asimov's'', 2003)
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Robert Reed
Robert Reed (born John Robert Rietz Jr.; October 19, 1932 – May 12, 1992) was an American actor. He played Kenneth Preston on the legal drama '' The Defenders'' from 1961 to 1965 alongside E. G. Marshall, and is best known for his role as pa ...
: "Night of Time" (Originally in ''The Silver Gryphon'', 2003)
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: "
A Night on the Barbary Coast" (Originally in ''The Silver Gryphon'', 2003)
* Nigel Brown: "Annuity Clinic" (Originally in ''Interzone'', 2003)
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Allen M. Steele: "The Madwoman of Shuttlefield" (Originally in ''Asimov's'', 2003)
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M. Rickert: "Bread and Bombs" (Originally in ''F&SF'', 2003)
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Stephen Baxter: "The Great Game" (Originally in ''Asimov's'', 2003)
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Rick Moody
Hiram Frederick Moody III (born October 18, 1961) is an American novelist and short story writer best known for the 1994 novel '' The Ice Storm'', a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1 ...
: "The Albertine Notes" (Originally in ''
McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales'', 2003)
External links
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