The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection

Summation: 1999
The wedding album/ David Marusek
10¹⁶ to 1/ James Patrick Kelly
Winemaster/ Robert Reed
Galactic north/ Alastair Reynolds
Dapple: a Hwarhath historical romance/ Eleanor Arnason
People came from Earth/ Stephen Baxter
Green tea/ Richard Wadholm
The dragon of Pripyat/ Karl Schroeder
Written in blood/ Chrius Lawson
Hatching the phoenix/ Frederik Pohl
Suicide coast/ M. John Harrison
Hunting mother/ Sage Walker
Mount Olympus/ Ben Bova
Border guards/ Greg Egan
Scherzo with tyrannosaur/ Michael Swanwick
A hero of the empire/ Robert Silverberg
How we lost the moon, a true story/ Frank W. Allen & Paul J. McAuley
Phallicide/ Charles Sheffield
Daddy’s world/ Walter Jon Williams
A Martian romance/ Kim Stanley Robinson
The sky-green blues/ Tanith Lee
Exchange rate/ Hal Clement
Everywhere/ Geoff Ryman
Hothouse flowers/ Mike Resnick
Evermore/ Sean Williams
Of scorned women & causal loops/ Robert Grossbach
Son observe the time/ Kage Baker
Honorable mentions: 1999