The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 6

6 best books like The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 6 (Jonathan Strahan): The Peace War, Marooned in Realtime, Across Realtime, Between The Strokes Of Night, The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009

The Peace War

Author	Vernor Vinge
ISBN	0765308835

The Peace War is quintessential hard-science adventure. The Peace Authority conquered the world with a weapon that never should have been a weapon--the "bobble," a spherical force-field impenetrable by any force known to mankind. Encasing governmental installations and military bases in bobbles,...

Marooned in Realtime

Author	Vernor Vinge
ISBN	0765308843

Multiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge takes readers on a fifty-million-year trip to a future where humanity's fate will be decided in a dangerous game of high-tech survival.

In this taut thriller, a Hugo finalist for Best Novel, nobody knows why there are only three hundred humans left alive...

Across Realtime

Author	Vernor Vinge
ISBN	1857981472

"The intricately plotted progress of characters from near to farfuture... on an Earth which, like an abandon playground, has long ago been left behind by an evolving humanity... human-scale action within a vast canvas."
-- The Excyclopedia of Science Fiction.

Encompassing time-travel,...

Between The Strokes Of Night

Author	Charles Sheffield
ISBN	0743435680

In the 277th century, Earth is dead, but mankind survives in colonies scattered across the galaxy. To these new worlds come the Immortals, beings with strange ties to ancient Earth who seem to live forever, who can travel light years in days -- and who use their strange powers to control the existence...

The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Author	John Joseph Adams
ISBN	1597801607

A Sherlockiana primer / Christopher Roden --
The doctor's case / Stephen King --
The horror of the many faces / Tim Lebbon --
The case of the bloodless sock / Anne Perry --
The adventure of the other detective / Bradley H. Sinor --
A scandal in Montreal / Edward D. Hoch --
The adventure...

The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009

Author	Rich Horton
ISBN	1607012146

Overall this novel was okay but I wouldn't recommend it. It had mostly okay stories with some terrible ones and only a few great stories. Some of the favorite stories were Araminta, the Wreck of the Amphidrake by Naomi Novik, Infestation by Garth Nix, Finding Hanover by Jeff VanderMeer, or The Road to...