The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection

by Gardner Dozois

Book Overview

More than 250,000 words of the finest science fiction published in 1987 are included in this best of the year anthology. Features a thorough summation of 1986 in science fiction and a comprehensive list of recommended reading.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312018541
• ISBN13: 9780312018542
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 678 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Not Free SF Reader

A definite return to form from the year before, this book averaging 3.75. There are four excellent stories in this volume. A bit of fantasy, some black humour, but a considerably more interesting group of work this time. Year's Best Science Fiction 05 : Rachel in Love - Pat Murphy Year's Best Science Fiction 05 : Dream Baby - Bruce McAllister Year's Best Science Fiction 05 : Flowers of Edo - Bruce Sterling Year's Best Science Fiction 05 : Forever Yours Anna - Kate Wilhelm Year's Best Science Fiction 05 : At the Cross-Time Jaunters' Ball - Alexander Jablokov Year's Best Science Fiction 05 : Dinosaurs - Walter Jon Williams Year's Best Science Fiction 05 : The Temporary King - Paul J. McAuley Year's Best Science Fiction 05 : Perpetuity Blues - Neal Barrett Year's Best Science Fiction 05 : Buffalo Gals Won't You Come Out Tonight? - Ursula K. Le Guin Year's Best Science Fiction 05 : The Pardoner's Tale - Robert Silverberg Year's Best Science Fiction 05 : The Glass Cloud - James Patrick Kelly Year's Best Science Fiction 05 : The Evening and the Morning and the Night - Octavia E. Butler Year's Best Science Fiction 05 : Night of the Cooters - Howard Waldrop Year's Best Science Fiction 05 : Angel - Pat Cadigan Year's Best Science Fiction 05 : Shades - Lucius Shepard Year's Best Science Fiction 05 : The Faithful Companion at Forty - Karen Joy Fowler Year's Best Science Fiction 05 : Candle in a Cosmic Wind - Joseph Manzione Year's Best Science Fiction 05 : The Emir's Clock - Ian Watson Year's Best Science Fiction 05 : Ever After - Susan Palwick Year's Best Science Fiction 05 : The Forest of Time - Michael F. Flynn Year's Best Science Fiction 05 : The Million-Dollar Wound - Dean Whitlock Year's Best Science Fiction 05 : The Moon of Popping Trees - R. Garcia y Robertson Year's Best Science Fiction 05 : Diner - Neal Barrett Year's Best Science Fiction 05 : All the Hues of Hell - Gene Wolfe Year's Best Science Fiction 05 : Halley's Passing - Michael McDowell Year's Best Science Fiction 05 : America - Orson Scott Card Year's Best Science Fiction 05 : For Thus Do I Remember Carthage - Michael Bishop Year's Best Science Fiction 05 : Mother Goddess of the World - Kim Stanley Robinson The life of a superintelligent chimp, the result of scientific experimentation into sign language. She is helped by some humans. 3.5 out of 5 Nam Talent squad rebellion. 4.5 out of 5 Local art ideas, one demon. 3 out of 5 Love letter time analysis. 4 out of 5 Critic revenge. 4 out of 5 Evolution specialisation inflexibility devastation. 4.5 out of 5 Love 'em, but you can't leave them if they kill you. 4 out of 5 Play waiting surprise. 3 out of 5 Don't eat the salmon. 2.5 out of 5 If you can hack it here, you can hack it anywhere. Unless the aliens get better at android collaborator impersonators. 4.5 out of 5 Alien architecture requirements are quite whacky. 4 out of 5 Concentration of disease. 4 out of 5 That sheriff is

Fantastic Survey of the Field!

Dozois is, and has long been, one of the best editors and anthologizers in all of SF. The anthology ranges over the many different sub-genres of Science Fiction, and I therefore cannot say I enjoyed all of his stories; nevertheless, all were well-written, and some of the stories were among the best I've ever read. I strongly recommend this and any other of Dozois' "Year's Best..." series.