Year's Best SF

Hartwell has brought together only the best of this year's new SF from established pros and audacious newcomers, selecting only those that share the universal quality of great science fiction. Here are stories that go beyond space and time.

Contents

ix • Introduction: Science Fiction is Alive and Well • (1996) • essay by David G. Hartwell
1 • Think Like a Dinosaur • (1995) • novelette by James Patrick Kelly
29 • Wonders of the Invisible World • (1995) • shortstory by Patricia A. McKillip
45 • Hot Times in Magma City • (1995) • novella by Robert Silverberg
111 • Gossamer • [Xeelee] • (1995) • shortstory by Stephen Baxter
135 • A Worm in the Well • (1995) • novelette by Gregory Benford
169 • Downloading Midnight • (1995) • novelette by William Browning Spencer
203 • For White Hill • (1995) • novella by Joe Haldeman
261 • In Saturn Time • (1995) • shortstory by William Barton
283 • Coming of Age in Karhide • [Hainish] • (1995) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
309 • The Three Descents of Jeremy Baker • (1995) • shortstory by Roger Zelazny
321 • Evolution • (1995) • novelette by Nancy Kress
353 • The Day the Aliens Came • (1995) • shortstory by Robert Sheckley
369 • Microbe • [Elysium Cycle] • (1995) • shortstory by Joan Slonczewski
387 • The Ziggurat • (1995) • novella by Gene Wolfe