Year's Best SF 7

Author	Samuel R. Delany
ISBN	0553234250

On a habitable moon near Tau Ceti, a young man named Comet Jo encounters a devil-kitten and sees a spaceship crash land. One of the people in the spaceship tells Jo that he has to take an urgent message to Empire Star, and dies. Another collapses to form Jewel, a compact, multicolored, multiplexed crystalline...

Author

Nancy Kress

Get your stories off to a roaring start. Keep them tight and crisp throughout. Conclude them with a wallop.

Is the story or novel you've been carrying around in your head the same one you see on the page? Or does the dialogue suddenly sound flat and predictable? Do the events seem to ramble?

Translating...

Author	Arthur C. Clarke
ISBN	0451098234

The story of 'Islands in the Sky' centers around a young man, who, after brilliantly winning a space-related competition, requests a vacation on a space station as his prize. It is written with Arthur C. Clarke's obvious knowledge of science, but moves at a page turning rate througout the entire narrative....

Author	John Cheever
ISBN	0679737863

Falconer Correctional Facility certainly sounds dreary and no place I’d want to spend any time, but it doesn’t seem nearly as bad as many fictional prisons. In fact, it seems pretty dull. There weren’t any beatings from brutal guards. There’s no racial tension evident. No one gets shivved...

Author	Arthur C. Clarke
ISBN	1857239180

A collection of science fiction short stories by Arthur C. Clarke.

Contents:

Second Dawn
If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth
Breaking Strain
History Lesson (as "Expedition to Earth" in the British Edition, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1954)
Superiority
Exile of the Eons...

Author	John Cheever
ISBN	9500427451

Bienvenidos a Bullet Park, un universo en donde hasta sus habitantes más intachables pueden sentirse aterrorizados por el simple acto de mirarse al espejo. En ese ambiente asfixiante, John Cheever narra la azarosa intersección de las vidas de dos hombres: Eliot Nailles, un buen hombre que ama con...