The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection
9 best books like The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection (Gardner Dozois): Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, The Windup Girl, Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology, Legends II: Dragon, Sword and King, Conan, Conan the Buccaneer, Conan: Sword of Skelos, Conan The Freebooter
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
| Author | Christopher Moore |
| ISBN | 0380813815 |
The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years—except Biff, the Messiah's best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely...
| Author | Paolo Bacigalupi |
| ISBN | 1597801577 |
Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko...
Emiko is the Windup...
| Author | Al Sarrantonio |
| ISBN | 0451459776 |
Now, Sarrantonio presents another daring, all-new anthology showcasing some of the genre's biggest names and best newcomers. "Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy" sets the standard for fantasy in the twenty-first century. Fantasy as literature. Fantasy that reinvigorates and expands the field's...
| Author | James Patrick Kelly |
| ISBN | 1892391538 |
Following the rapid evolution of cyberpunk from Bruce Sterling and William Gibson into the current millennium, this vivid anthology welcomes a new generation of exciting writers to take the genre in new and unexpected directions. Cyberpunk freewheels with punk rock energy, careening between...
| Author | Robert Silverberg |
| ISBN | 1435291131 |
Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King bounds together short stories from five bestselling authors in fantasy in one-half of a follow up volume to the first Legends anthology. Edited by Robert Silverberg, this collection sees returning authors such as George R.R. Martin and Orson Scott Card with newcomers...
| Author | Robert E. Howard |
| ISBN | 0441116302 |
Aaaaah...Conan!
I struggled with my star rating for Conan because, despite any mitigating factors, I really love the character of Conan, particularly in the hands of his progenitor, Robert E. Howard.
Howard had a fiercely creative mind and a burning work ethic that enabled him to...
| Author | Lin Carter |
| ISBN | 0441115853 |
More bad writing from De Camp and Carter. Chronologically, Conan The Buccaneer takes place before Conan Of The Isles, but was written after. This one is marginally better than Conan Of The Isles but still pretty rough. At least there’s no scuba gear.
That’s all I’m going to say about the...
| Author | Andrew J. Offutt |
| ISBN | 0765340216 |
With the beautiful and fierce Isparana at his side, Conan must cross a brutal and deadly desert in order to deliver their precious cargo-a magical amulet known as the Eye of Erlik. But rather than collecting untold riches for their rare treasure, they are betrayed by a ruthless tyrant and his evil mage.
Conan...
| Author | Robert E. Howard |
| ISBN | 0441116736 |
Contents:
9 · Introduction · L. Sprague de Camp · in
15 · Hawks Over Shem [revised by de Camp from “Hawks Over Egypt” by R.E.H. Howard’s original version was eventually published in The Road to Azrael, Bantam 1980] · nv Fantastic Universe Oct ’55
54 · Black Colossus ·...
