The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction
10 best books like The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction (Gardner Dozois): The Secret History of Science Fiction, The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II B, Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction, 50 Short Science Fiction Tales, The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories, The Space Opera Renaissance, Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5, The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction
| Author | James Patrick Kelly |
| ISBN | 1892391937 |
This ingeniously conceived anthology raises the intriguing question, If Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow had won the Nebula award in 1973, would the future distinction between literary fiction and science fiction have been erased? Exploring the possibility of an alternate history of speculative...
| Author | Harry Turtledove |
| ISBN | 0345439899 |
Explosive and provocative battles fought across the boundaries of time and space--and on the frontiers of the human mind.
Science fiction's finest have yielded this definitive collection featuring stories of warfare, victory, conquest, heroism, and overwhelming odds. These are scenarios...
| Author | Ben Bova |
| ISBN | 0380000547 |
This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas between 1929 to 1964 and contains eleven great classics. There is no better anthology that captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field.
Published in 1973 to honor stories that had come before the institution...
| Author | Robert Silverberg |
| ISBN | 0060817127 |
*****"Old Music and the Slave Woman" - Ursula K. LeGuin.
Yes, I checked this book out from the library because I saw that it had a LeGuin story I hadn't read before! And yes, this alone was worth the price of admission. (Well, since it was from the library there wasn't a price, but, you know...)
Set...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0020163908 |
Fifty Exciting Experiences
You visit a world where Robots strain to remember the existence of the Men who created them; hear the tantalizingly brief report of a man who returns from a trip to the future; see the snake-armed Thing that emerges from the minds of the people who conjure it. You meet a souvenir...
| Author | Tom Shippey |
| ISBN | 0192803816 |
This is the definitive collection of the twentieth-century's most characteristic genre -- science fiction. The tales are organized chronologically to give readers a sense of how the genre's range, vitality, and literary quality have evolved over time. Each tale offers a unique vision, an altered...
| Author | Kathryn Cramer |
| ISBN | 0765306174 |
"Space opera", once a derisive term for cheap pulp adventure, has come to mean something more in modern SF: compelling adventure stories told against a broad canvas, and written to the highest level of skill. Indeed, it can be argued that the "new space opera" is one of the defining streams of modern SF.
Now,...
| Author | Orson Scott Card |
| ISBN | 0441011330 |
Well, I finally finished it going about 1 story a day. "sandkings," "call me joe," "all you zombies--," "tunesmith," "dark they were, and golden-eyed," "repent harlequin," and "inconstant moon" are probably my favorites in this collection. Overall a wonderful collection. A must read for everyone....
| Author | Jonathan Strahan |
| ISBN | 1597801720 |
In print and on-line, science fiction and fantasy is thriving as never before. A multitude of astonishingly creative and gifted writers are boldly exploring the mythic past, the paranormal present, and the promises and perils of myriad alternate worlds and futures. There are almost too many new and...
The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction
| Author | George Mann |
| ISBN | 1844164489 |
An eclectic collection of all-original science fiction stories from some of the foremost luminaries in the genre. Featuring new tales of far future murder, first contact, love and war from such well-regarded and award winning authors as Peter F. Hamilton, Stephen Baxter, Adam Roberts, Jeffrey Thomas,...
| Author | Brian W. Aldiss |
| ISBN | 0141188928 |
This new edition of Brian Aldiss' classic anthology brings together a diverse selection of science fiction spanning over sixty years, from Isaac Asimov's "Nightfall", first published in 1941, to the 2006 story "Friends in Need" by Eliza Blair. Including authors such as Clifford Simak, Harry Harrison,...
Platinum Pohl: The Collected Best Stories
| Author | Frederik Pohl |
| ISBN | 0765301458 |
Platinum Pohl is the first collection to collect all of the essential works of Frederik Pohl. First and foremost, Pohl is a master of the science fiction short story. For more than fifty years he has been writing incisive, entertaining SF stories, several hundred in all. Even while writing his bestselling...
| Author | Ian Watson |
| ISBN | 1845297792 |
As usual, I've reviewed each story as I've come to it.
The Raft of the Titanic by James Murrow
The problem with taking the obvious route when applying alternative history to HMS Titanic is that if you create a story where the Titanic doesn’t ship it becomes a case of “so what?” The interesting...
| Author | David G. Hartwell |
| ISBN | 0060873418 |
Travel farther than you've ever dreamed Man has mused about the nature of our universe since he first gazed up in wonder at the stars. Now some of the most fertile imaginations in speculative fiction offer bold and breathtaking visions of "what's out there" and "what's next" in the eleventh annual celebration...
| Author | Harlan Ellison |
| ISBN | 0722132980 |
New Introduction (Dangerous Visions 2) • (1969) • essay by Harlan Ellison
Dangerous Visions 2 • (1974) • interior artwork by Diane Dillon and Leo Dillon
Eutopia • (1967) • novelette by Poul Anderson
Faith of Our Fathers • (1967) • novelette by Philip K. Dick
Gonna...
Nebula Awards Showcase 2010: The Year's Best SF and Fantasy
| Author | Bill Fawcett |
| ISBN | 0451463161 |
This is June’s book group selection. We’ve read eight Nebula Awards books to this point – in fact, when the book is brought to the table, it is the one selection we don’t bother with the voting process. We’re going to read this one!
This year’s Nebula Awards (which is always about...
