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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection

10 best books like The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection (Gardner Dozois): Beginning Operations, By Any Other Name, The Stars are Also Fire, Greyhaven, Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction, The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories, The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction, In Paul Klee's Enchanted Garden, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5, The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Beginning Operations
AuthorJames White
ISBN0312875444
Hospital Station / Star Surgeon / Major Operation
"Sector General: A massive deep-space hospital station on the Galactic Rim, where human and alien medicine meet. Its 384 levels and thousands of staff members are supposedly able to meet the needs of the any conceivable alien patient - though that...
By Any Other Name
AuthorSpider Robinson
ISBN0671319744
FROM THE CRIME TO THE RIDICULOUS
From the offbeat but razor-edged imagination of Spider Robinson: stranded time travelers; squabbling cosmic warriors; reincarnated rock stars; blind starship pilots; monsters both human and alien; tomorrows formed by today's trends -- this Spider weaves...
The Stars are Also Fire
AuthorPoul Anderson
ISBN0812530225
After being less than impressed by “a harvest of stars” I decided to give the sequel a go.

And let’s get it over with from the start, it is a far better story. 3.5 stars.

Where “harvest” focussed on the humans leaving earth, this one focuses on the ones who stayed behind.

In...
Greyhaven
AuthorMarion Zimmer Bradley
ISBN0879978155
Somewhere in Northern California there is a house where all the dimensions of time and space and distant worlds come together: This house, whose exact location is known to a very special few, is called Greyhaven..it is the spiritual home of an ever-growing 'family' of imaginative writers. Diana Paxson,...
Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction
AuthorRobert Silverberg
ISBN0060817127
*****"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...
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories
AuthorTom Shippey
ISBN0192803816
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...
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction
AuthorMike Ashley
Anomalies (2001) by Gregory Benford 4/5
And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon (2003) by Paul Di Filippo 5/5
Crucifixion Variations (1998) by Lawrence Person 4/5
The Pacific Mystery by (2006) Stephen Baxter 4.5.5
Flowers from Alice (2003) by Charles Stross and Cory Doctorow 3/5
Merlin's...
In Paul Klee's Enchanted Garden
AuthorAudun Eckhoff
ISBN3775721010
Many call Paul Klee a magician. He was no such thing; he did not conjure up anything. He was a creator who found beauty in the world around him, wrote one of Klee's students from the legendary Bauhaus. The Swiss-born painter, like many of his contemporaries--Kandinsky among them--was interested in Transcendentalism...
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5
AuthorJonathan Strahan
ISBN1597801720
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 Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy
AuthorCharles N. Brown
ISBN0060594268
The Barnes & Noble Review
The introduction to The Locus Awards says it all: "This book contains some of the finest science fiction and fantasy short fiction ever written." Included within are some of the best Locus Award winning stories covering the last three decades. From Ursula K. Le Guin...
Year's Best SF 11
AuthorDavid G. Hartwell
ISBN0060873418
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...
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Treasury
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0517336359
This giant volume combines two collections of the best science fiction stories from the fifties, sixties, and seventies, edited and with an introduction by the incomparable Isaac Asimov. These thrilling and sometimes frightening visions of the future include:

• "The Last Question"...
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection
AuthorEllen Datlow
ISBN0312187785
This book in the long-running series of best of the year anthologies showcases the authors favorite stories from 1997. There are some really good stories in here.

My favorite by far was Safe by Gary A Braunbeck. This story was about a shooting and its ramifications and it actually made me cry...
Man-Kzin Wars 3
AuthorLarry Niven
ISBN0671720082
IT'S HOWLING TIME IN KNOWN SPACE

Those war-crazed fur-balls from the planet Kzin just won't give up, even though the canny pseudo-pacifists from Planet Earth cut through the Kzinti like a laser through catmeat (once the humans rediscovered old technologies and old instincts that never quite...
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