| Year's Best SF 14 Contributor(s): Hartwell, David G. (Author), Cramer, Kathryn (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061721743 ISBN-13: 9780061721748 Publisher: Harper Voyager OUR PRICE: $7.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2009 Annotation: Hartwell and Cramer select the very best short science fiction from 2008 for this new anthology that features new works by such authors as Stephen Baxter, Neil Gaiman, and Alastair Reynolds. Original. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - Collections & Anthologies - Fiction | Fantasy - Collections & Anthologies - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2010713668 |
| Series: Year's Best SF (Science Fiction) |
| Physical Information: 1.14" H x 4.18" W x 6.94" (0.54 lbs) 512 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Unique visions and astonishments--new stories by: Tobias S. Buckell and Karl Schroeder Last year's best short-form SF--selected by acclaimed, award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer--offers stunning new extrapolations on what awaits humankind beyond the next dawn. The art of the story is explored boldly and provocatively in this powerful new collection of Year's Best speculative fiction. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hartwell, David G.: - David G. Hartwell is a senior editor of Tor/Forge Books. His doctorate is in Comparative Medieval Literature. He is the proprietor of Dragon Press, publisher and bookseller, which publishes The New York Review of Science Fiction, and the president of David G. Hartwell, Inc. He is the author of Age of Wonders and the editor of many anthologies, including The Dark Descent, The World Treasury of Science Fiction, The Hard SF Renaissance, The Space Opera Renaissance, and a number of Christmas anthologies, among others. Recently he co-edited his fifteenth annual paperback volume of Year's Best SF, and co-edited the ninth Year's Best Fantasy. John Updike, reviewing The World Treasury of Science Fiction in The New Yorker, characterized him as a "loving expert." He is on the board of the IAFA, is co-chairman of the board of the World Fantasy Convention, and an administrator of the Philip K. Dick Award. He has won the Eaton Award, the World Fantasy Award, and has been nominated for the Hugo Award forty times to date, winning as Best Editor in 2006, 2008, and 2009. Cramer, Kathryn: -Kathryn Cramer is a writer, critic, and anthologist, and was coeditor of the Year's Best Fantasy and Year's Best SF series. A consulting editor at Tor Books, she won a World Fantasy Award for her anthology The Architecture of Fear. |