The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection

10 best books like The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection (Gardner Dozois): Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, Spiderlight, Perihelion Summer, Diaspora, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume One, 1929-1964, Oceanic, Nightwings, The Boat of a Million Years, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 124, Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations

Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach

Author

Kelly Robson

Discover a shifting history of adventure as humanity clashes over whether to repair their ruined planet or luxuriate in a less tainted past.

In 2267, Earth has just begun to recover from worldwide ecological disasters. Minh is part of the generation that first moved back up to the surface of...

Spiderlight

Author

Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Church of Armes of the Light has battled the forces of Darkness for as long as anyone can remember. The great prophecy has foretold that a band of misfits, led by a high priestess will defeat the Dark Lord Darvezian, armed with their wits, the blessing of the Light and an artifact stolen from the merciless...

Perihelion Summer

Author	Greg Egan
ISBN	1250313783

Greg Egan's Perihelion Summer is a story of people struggling to adapt to a suddenly alien environment, and the friendships and alliances they forge as they try to find their way in a world where the old maps have lost their meaning.

Taraxippus is coming: a black hole one tenth the mass of the sun...

Diaspora

Author	Greg Egan
ISBN	3453161815

By the end of the 30th century humanity has the capability to travel the universe, to journey beyond earth and beyond the confines of the vulnerable human frame.

The descendants of centuries of scientific, cultural and physical development divide into three: fleshers — true Homo sapiens;...

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume One, 1929-1964

Author	Robert Silverberg
ISBN	0765305372

If you own only one anthology of classic science fiction, it should be The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume One, 1929-1964. Selected by a vote of the membership of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA), these 26 reprints represent the best, most important, and most influential stories and...

Oceanic

Author	Greg Egan
ISBN	0575086521

Collected together here for the first time are twelve stories by the incomparable Greg Egan, one of the most exciting writers of science fiction working today. In these dozen glimpses into the future Egan continues to explore the essence of what it is to be human, and the nature of what - and who - we are,...

Nightwings

Author	Robert Silverberg
ISBN	0743474465

Nightwings, Robert Silverberg’s 1969 work is a very Ursula K. LeGuin type novel.

It is actually, three novellas put together to make a novel sized work, anchored by the Hugo award-winning novella Nightwings.

This is set in the far future, thousands of years, and the earth has survived,...

The Boat of a Million Years

Author	Poul Anderson
ISBN	0765310244

Others have written SF on the theme of immortality, but in The Boat of a Million Years, Poul Anderson made it his own. Early in human history, certain individuals were born who live on, unaging, undying, through the centuries and millenia. We follow them through over 2000 years, up to our time and beyond-to...

Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 124

Author

Neil Clarke

FICTION
"The Ghost Ship Anastasia" by Rich Larson
"A Series of Steaks" by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
"Justice Systems in Quantum Parallel Probabilities" by Lettie Prell
"Interchange" by Gary Kloster
"Milla" by Lorenzo Crescentini and Emanuela Valentini, translated by Rich Larson
"Events...

Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations

Author	William H. McRaven
ISBN	1538715538

In this instant New York Times bestseller, the celebrated author of Make Your Bed shares amazing adventure stories from his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of America's Special Operations Forces.
Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some...

Randomize

Author

Andy Weir

In the near future, if Vegas games are ingeniously scam-proof, then the heists have to be too, in this imaginative and whip-smart story by the New York Times bestselling author of The Martian.

An IT whiz at the Babylon Casino is enlisted to upgrade security for the game of keno and its random-number...

Warmage

Author

Terry Mancour

The Goblin Invasion Is On...

...and a wizard's work is never done! After facing a hopeless siege, an implacable foe and an impossible escape, you would think that Minalan the Spellmonger would be able to rest -- but the armies of the undead goblin shaman Shereul (known as the Dead God to his human...