The true history of the end of the world

The very best short SF fiction of any given year as recommended and nominated by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America: the best novella, novelette and short story. Here you will find the cream of the crop of science fiction and fantasy - startling ideas, the intricate construction of new worlds and mind-bending experimental writing. This anthology includes not only the Nebula Award-winning works in each short-form category, but also all the nominees in the novelette and short story categories. Here you will find colourful fantasy, outstanding speculative fiction, steampunk, edgy writing on the fringes of the mainstream and uncompromisingly hard SF in stories set in the distant past, an off-kilter present day, the far future or some times in between.

With his June 1995 novelette, “Think Like a Dinosaur,” James Patrick Kelly has entered the ranks of Hugo-Award-winning authors. He tells us his newest tale “is one of those stories with a long incubation period. Although it makes no reference to the stories, it is conceptually of a piece with ‘Home Front’ (June 1988) and ‘Pogrom’ (January 1991).” After walking around for two years with the title of the story on a scrap of paper in his wallet, the author “slammed out a first draft in five days while teaching at Clarion in 1996—just to prove to the whippersnappers (and myself) that I could still produce at panic speed.” The final version is about a third again as long and much changed from its original incarnation. Mr. Kelly’s first short story collection, is just out from Golden Gryphon Press.

Прославленные мастера жанра, такие как Майкл Суэнвик, Брюс Стерлинг, Джо Холдеман, Джин Вулф, Гарри Тертлдав и многие другие, приглашают читателей в увлекательные путешествия по далекому будущему и альтернативному прошлому. Тайны инопланетных миров и величайшие достижения научной мысли представлены на страницах знаменитого ежегодного сборника, обладателя многочисленных престижных наград. Только самое новое и лучшее достойно оказаться под обложкой «The Year's Best Science Fiction», признанного бренда в мире фантастики!