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The Year’s Best Science Fiction: 33rd Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois

Hardcover – Griffin Press – Jul2016 – 675 pages.

Thirty-six stories that span the outbacks of space to the trials of a civilization losing the technology that keeps it running. Collected from magazines, anthologies and electronic publications throughout 2015, this massive tome is sure to have stories that will become some of your very favorites.

The publisher writes: In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection, the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award-winning authors and masters of the field. With an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

Contents:

The Falls: A Luna Story by Ian McDonald

Three Cups of Grief by Starlight by Aliette de Bodard

Ruins by Eleanor Arnason

Another Word for World by Ann Leckie

Meshed by Rich Larson

Emergence by Gwyneth Jones

Gypsy by Carter Scholz

The Astrakhanm teh Homburg, and the Red Red Coat by Chaz Benchley

The Muses of Shuyedan-18 by Indrapramit Das

Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn

The Audience by Sean McMullen

Rates of Change by James S. A. Corey

Calved by Sam J. Miller

Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathagan by Ian McDonald

Consolation by John Kessel

The Children of Gal by Allen M. Steele

Today I Am Paul by Martin L. Shoemaker

City of Ash by Paolo Bacigalupi

Trapping the Pleistecene by James Sarafin

Machine Learning by Nancy Kress

Inhuman Garbage by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Planet of Fear by Paul J. McAuley

It Takes More Muscles to Frown by Ned Beauman

The Daughters of John Demetrius by Joe Pitkin

Silence Like Diamonds by John Barnes

Billy Tumuly by Nick Harkaway

Hello, Hello, Can You Hear Me, Hello by Seanan McGuire

Capitalism in the 22nd Century or A.I.R by Geoff Ryman

Ice by Rich Larson

The First Gate of Logic by Benjamin Rosenbaum

In Panic Town, On the Backward Moon by Michael F. Flynn

The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill by Kelly Robson

No Placeholder for You, My Love by Nick Wolven

The Game of Smash and Recovery by Kelly Link

A Stopped Clock by Madeline Ashby

The Citadel of Weeping Pearls by Aliette de Bodard