The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection

Now a dozen years old, the award-winning collection continues to provide dozens of the best stories of the year, including work by remowned veterans and exciting newcomers…

Rounded out with a long list of honorable mentions and Gardner Dozois’s entertaining summation of the year in science fiction, this remains the one book for every science fiction reader.

Contents
xi • Summation: 1994 • (1995) • essay by Gardner Dozois
1 • Forgiveness Day • [Yeowe and Werel • 2] • (1994) • novella by Ursula K. Le Guin
40 • The Remoras • [The Great Ship Universe] • (1994) • novelette by Robert Reed
65 • Nekropolis • (1994) • novelette by Maureen F. McHugh
93 • Margin of Error • (1994) • shortstory by Nancy Kress
98 • Cilia-of-Gold • (1994) • novelette by Stephen Baxter
118 • Going After Old Man Alabama • (1994) • shortstory by William Sanders
131 • Melodies of the Heart • (1994) • novella by Michael F. Flynn
206 • The Hole in the Hole • [Wilson Wu and Irving • 1] • (1994) • novelette by Terry Bisson
230 • Paris in June • (1994) • shortstory by Pat Cadigan
243 • Flowering Mandrake • (1994) • novelette by George Turner
273 • None So Blind • (1994) • shortstory by Joe Haldeman
281 • Cocoon • (1994) • novelette by Greg Egan
305 • Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge • [Birthright Universe] • (1994) • novella by Mike Resnick
343 • Dead Space for the Unexpected • (1994) • shortstory by Geoff Ryman
355 • Cri de Coeur • (1994) • novella by Michael Bishop
402 • The Sawing Boys • (1994) • novelette by Howard Waldrop
417 • The Matter of Seggri • (1994) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
446 • Ylem • (1994) • novelette by Eliot Fintushel
465 • Asylum • (1994) • novella by Katharine Kerr
492 • Red Elvis • (1994) • novelette by Walter Jon Williams
507 • California Dreamer • (1994) • shortstory by Mary Rosenblum
520 • Split Light • (1994) • shortstory by Lisa Goldstein
531 • Les Fleurs Du Mal • [Biotech Revolution] • (1994) • novella by Brian Stableford
585 • Honorable Mentions: 1994 • (1995) • essay by Gardner Dozois