Years Best Science Fiction 22nd

Brief Description: With contributions from masters of the form and the brightest stars of the future, this annually anticipated anthology of sci fi stories features a recommended reading guide and a summation of the year's best offerings. Biographical Note: Gardner Dozois has won the Hugo Award for Best Editor twelve times. The editor of Asimov's "SF" magazine since 1986, he lives in Philadelphia, Pensylvania. Review Quotes: "The latest in Dozois's definitive, must-read short story anthology series takes the pulse of science fiction today, revealing it to be a genre of breathtaking scope and imagination.... The range of stories and styles means there's something here for everyone."--"Publishers Weekly" (Starred Review) Table of Contents: AcknowledgmentsSummation: 2004Pat Murphy, "Inappropriate Behavior"Benjamin Rosenbaum, "Start the Clock "David Moles, "The Third Party"Christopher Rowe, "The Voluntary State"Nancy Kress, "Shiva in Shadow"Paolo Bacigalupi, "The People of Sand and Slag"Michael F. Flynn, "The Clapping Hands of God"M. John Harrison, "Tourism"Terry Bisson, "Scout's Honor"James Patrick Kelly, "Men are Trouble"Kage Baker, "Mother Aegypt"Vernor Vinge, "Synthetic Serendipity"Mary Rosenblum, "Skin Deep"Vandana Singh, "Delhi"Albert E. Cowdrey, "The Tribes of Bela"William Sanders, "Sitka"Daniel Abraham, "Leviathan Wept"Colin P. Davies, "The Defenders"Stephen Baxter, "Mayflower II"Caitlin R. Kiernan, "Riding the White Bull"Brendan DuBois, "Falling Star"Robert Reed, "The Dragons of Summer Gulch"James L. Cambias, "The Ocean of the Blind"Eleanor Arnason, "The Garden: A "Hwarhath "Science Fiction Romance"Peter F. Hamilton, "Footvote"Paul Di Filippo, "Sisyphus and the Stranger"Paul Melko, "Ten Sigmas"Walter Jon Williams, "Investments"Honorable Mentions: 2004 Review Citations:

Booklist 07/01/2005 pg. 1912 (EAN 9780312336608, Paperback)

Library Journal 07/01/2005 pg. 73 (EAN 9780312336608, Paperback)

Library Journal 07/15/2005 (EAN 9780312336608, Paperback)

Ingram Advance 07/01/2005 pg. 61 (EAN 9780312336608, Paperback)

Publishers Weekly 06/20/2005 pg. 63 (EAN 9780312336608, Paperback) - *Starred Review

Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2006 pg. 68 (EAN 9780312336608, Paperback)

Publishers Weekly 06/20/2005 pg. 63 (EAN 9780312336592, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

Library Journal 07/01/2005 pg. 73 (EAN 9780312336592, Hardcover)

Booklist 07/01/2005 pg. 1912 (EAN 9780312336592, Hardcover)

Library Journal 07/15/2005 (EAN 9780312336592, Hardcover)

Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2006 pg. 68 (EAN 9780312336592, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Dozois, Gardner Gardner Dozois is a highly esteemed author and Hugo Award-winning editor of several SF anthologies and, for twenty years, Asimov's Science Fiction magazine.