The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection

The future, the past, and life today are boldly imagined and reinvented in the twenty-five stories collected in this showcase anthology. Many of the field’s finest practitioners are represented here, along with stories from promising newcomers. A useful list of honorable mentions and Dozois’s insightful summation of the year in SF round out this anthology, making it indispensable for anyone interested in SF today.

Contents
xi • Summation: 1993 • essay by Gardner Dozois
1 • Papa • (1993) • novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
35 • Sacred Cow • (1993) • shortstory by Bruce Sterling
49 • Dancing on Air • (1993) • novella by Nancy Kress
95 • A Visit to the Farside • (1993) • shortstory by Don Webb
107 • Alien Bootlegger • (1993) • novella by Rebecca Ore
179 • Death on the Nile • (1993) • novelette by Connie Willis
200 • Friendship Bridge • (1993) • novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
223 • Into the Miranda Rift • (1993) • novella by G. David Nordley
278 • Mwalimu in the Squared Circle • (1993) • shortstory by Mike Resnick
290 • Guest of Honor • (1993) • novelette by Robert Reed
319 • Love Toys of the Gods • (1993) • shortstory by Pat Cadigan
333 • Chaff • (1993) • novelette by Greg Egan
352 • Georgia on My Mind • (1993) • novelette by Charles Sheffield
390 • Cush • (1993) • novelette by Neal Barrett, Jr.
422 • On the Collection of Humans • (1994) • shortfiction by Mark Rich
425 • There and Then • [Silurian Tales] • (1993) • novelette by Steven Utley
461 • The Night We Buried Road Dog • (1993) • novella by Jack Cady
507 • Feedback • (1993) • novelette by Joe Haldeman
529 • Lieserl • (1993) • shortstory by Stephen Baxter
545 • Flashback • (1993) • novelette by Dan Simmons
586 • A Child’s Christmas in Florida • (1993) • shortstory by William Browning Spencer
592 • Whispers • (1993) • novelette by Maureen F. McHugh and David B. Kisor
612 • Wall, Stone, Craft • (1993) • novella by Walter Jon Williams
683 • Honorable Mentions: 1993 • essay by Gardner Dozois