2 Year's Best Science Fiction: Annual Collections by Gardner Dozois (#1-2)
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Overview: Dozois's Year's Best, like any successful representative of a large constituency, sometimes suffers from blandness and inconsistency. As usual, it's oversized? 23 stories, nearly 600 pages?and includes a variety of types of SF as well as near-horror, fantasy and humor. Five of the stories are final nominees for Nebulas, and two new "Hainish" stories by Ursula LeGuin were nominated for Tiptree Awards; "The Matter of Segrri" won. No story here is less than competent and professional; but, with a few exceptions, there is a voiceless sameness in the writing, practically a house style, that over so many pages grows tedious.
Genre: Science Fiction, Anthologies, Short Stories



First Annual Collection (The Year's Best Science Fiction #1)
Contents
9 • Introduction: Summation: 1983 • essay by Gardner Dozois
26 • Cicada Queen • [Shaper/Mechanist] • (1983) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
60 • Beyond the Dead Reef • [Quintana Roo] • (1983) • shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr.
76 • Slow Birds • (1983) • novelette by Ian Watson
101 • Vulcan's Forge • (1983) • shortstory by Poul Anderson
119 • Man-Mountain Gentian • (1983) • shortstory by Howard Waldrop
136 • Hardfought • (1983) • novella by Greg Bear
195 • Manifest Destiny • (1983) • novelette by Joe Haldeman
209 • Full Chicken Richness • (1983) • shortstory by Avram Davidson
219 • Multiples • (1983) • shortstory by Robert Silverberg
237 • Cryptic • (1983) • shortstory by Jack McDevitt
253 • The Sidon in the Mirror • (1983) • novelette by Connie Willis
281 • Golden Gate • (1982) • shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
295 • Blind Shemmy • (1983) • novelette by Jack Dann
316 • In the Islands • (1983) • shortstory by Pat Murphy
329 • Nunc Dimittis • (1983) • novelette by Tanith Lee
348 • Blood Music • (1983) • novelette by Greg Bear
371 • Her Furry Face • (1983) • shortstory by Leigh Kennedy
387 • Knight of Shallows • (1983) • novelette by Rand B. Lee
419 • The Cat • [Solar Cycle] • (1983) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe
426 • The Monkey Treatment • (1983) • novelette by George R. R. Martin
452 • Nearly Departed • [Deadpan Allie] • (1983) • shortstory by Pat Cadigan
467 • Hearts Do Not in Eyes Shine • (1983) • novelette by John Kessel
486 • Carrion Comfort • (1983) • novelette by Dan Simmons
522 • Gemstone • (1983) • novelette by Vernor Vinge
546 • Black Air • (1983) • novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
571 • Honorable Mentions: 1983 • essay by Gardner Dozois

Second Annual Collection (The Year's Best Science Fiction #2)
Contents
9 • Introduction: Summation: 1984 • essay by Gardner Dozois
27 • Salvador • (1984) • shortstory by Lucius Shepard
45 • Promises to Keep • (1984) • novelette by Jack McDevitt
63 • Bloodchild • (1984) • novelette by Octavia E. Butler
82 • Blued Moon • (1984) • novelette by Connie Willis
113 • A Message to the King of Brobdingnag • (1984) • novelette by Richard Cowper
135 • The Affair • (1984) • shortstory by Robert Silverberg
153 • Press Enter [] • (1984) • novella by John Varley
207 • New Rose Hotel • (1984) • shortstory by William Gibson
219 • The Map • [Solar Cycle] • (1984) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe
232 • Interlocking Pieces • (1984) • shortstory by Molly Gloss
239 • Trojan Horse • (1984) • novelette by Michael Swanwick
269 • Bad Medicine • (1984) • novelette by Jack Dann
291 • At the Embassy Club • (1984) • shortstory by Elizabeth A. Lynn
301 • Pursuit of Excellence • (1984) • novelette by Rena Yount
319 • The Kindly Isle • (1984) • shortstory by Frederik Pohl
341 • Rock On • (1984) • shortstory by Pat Cadigan
350 • Sunken Gardens • [Shaper/Mechanist] • (1984) • shortstory by Bruce Sterling
365 • Trinity • (1984) • novella by Nancy Kress
409 • The Trouble With the Cotton People • (1984) • shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
420 • Twilight Time • (1984) • novelette by Lewis Shiner
440 • Black Coral • (1984) • novelette by Lucius Shepard
466 • Friend • (1984) • novelette by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
484 • Foreign Skins • (1984) • novelette by Tanith Lee
511 • Company in the Wings • (1983) • shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
524 • A Cabin on the Coast • (1984) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe
536 • The Lucky Strike • (1984) • novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
569 • Honorable Mentions: 1984 • essay by Gardner Dozois

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