The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection (ISBN 0-312-27465-3) is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois
Gardner Dozois
Gardner Raymond Dozois is an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004...

 that was published in 2001. It is the 18th in The Year's Best Science Fiction
The Year's Best Science Fiction
The Year's Best Science Fiction books are a series of science fiction anthologies edited by Gardner Dozois. In 2005 Dozois produced a "Best of the Best" review with a foreword by Robert Silverberg. The series is published by St. Martin's Press ....

 series.

Contents

The book includes a 39-page summation by Dozois; 23 stories, all that first appeared in 2000, and each with a two-paragraph introduction by Dozois; and a seven-page referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows.
  • John Kessel
    John Kessel
    John Kessel is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. He is a prolific short story writer and the author of two solo novels, Good News From Outer Space and Corrupting Dr...

    : "The Juniper Tree"
  • Charles Stross
    Charles Stross
    Charles David George "Charlie" Stross is a British writer of science fiction, Lovecraftian horror and fantasy. He was born in Leeds.Stross specialises in hard science fiction and space opera...

    : "Antibodies" (also collected in Toast: And Other Rusted Futures
    Toast: And Other Rusted Futures
    Toast: And Other Rusted Futures is an English language collection of science fiction short stories by Charles Stross, published in 2002 by Cosmos Books...

    )
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    Ursula Kroeber Le Guin is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, notably in fantasy and science fiction...

    : "The Birthday Of the World"
  • Nancy Kress
    Nancy Kress
    Nancy Kress is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo and Nebula-winning 1991 novella "Beggars in Spain" which was later expanded into a novel with the same title...

    : "Savior"
  • Paul J. McAuley: "Reef"
  • Susan Palwick
    Susan Palwick
    Susan Palwick is an American writer and associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. She began her professional career by publishing "The Woman Who Saved the World" for Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1985....

    : "Going After Bobo"
  • Albert E. Cowdrey
    Albert E. Cowdrey
    Albert E. Cowdrey is an American fantasy and science fiction author. He has published the science fiction novel Crux and a number of short stories. Much of his short fiction has appeared in Fantasy and Science Fiction and centers on his love for New Orleans. He was Chief of the Special History...

    : "Crux"
  • Severna Park
    Severna Park (writer)
    Severna Park is a science fiction author and winner of the Nebula Award for Best Short Story . Her first novel, Speaking Dreams from 1992, was a Lambda literary award nominee. She now writes mainstream fiction. Employed as a teacher, she lives with her partner of twenty-five years in...

    : "The Cure For Everything"
  • Peter F. Hamilton
    Peter F. Hamilton
    Peter F. Hamilton is a British author. He is best known for writing space opera. As of the publication of his tenth novel in 2004, his works had sold over two million copies worldwide.- Biography :...

    : "The Suspect Genome"
  • Michael Swanwick
    Michael Swanwick
    Michael Swanwick is an American science fiction author. Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he began publishing in the early 1980s.-Biography:...

    : "The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-o"
  • Lucius Shepard
    Lucius Shepard
    Lucius Shepard is an American writer. Classified as a science fiction and fantasy writer, he often leans into other genres, such as magical realism. His work is infused with a political and historical sensibility and an awareness of literary antecedents...

    : "The Radiant Green Star"
  • Alastair Reynolds
    Alastair Reynolds
    Alastair Preston Reynolds is a British science fiction author. He specialises in dark hard science fiction and space opera. He spent his early years in Cornwall, moved back to Wales before going to Newcastle, where he read physics and astronomy. Afterwards, he earned a PhD from St Andrews, Scotland...

    : "Great Wall of Mars"
  • Eliot Fintushel: "Milo and Sylvie"
  • Brian Stableford
    Brian Stableford
    Brian Michael Stableford is a British science fiction writer who has published more than 70 novels. His earlier books were published as by Brian M. Stableford, but more recent ones have dropped the middle initial and appeared under the name Brian Stableford...

    : "Snowball In Hell"
  • Stephen Baxter
    Stephen Baxter
    Stephen Baxter is a prolific British hard science fiction author. He has degrees in mathematics and engineering.- Writing style :...

    : "On the Orion Line"
  • Greg Egan
    Greg Egan
    Greg Egan is an Australian science fiction author.Egan published his first work in 1983. He specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the nature of consciousness...

    : "Oracle"
  • Rick Coon and Ernest Hogan
    Ernest Hogan
    Ernest Hogan was the first African American entertainer to produce and star in a Broadway show and helped create the musical genre of ragtime....

    : "Obsidian Harvest"
  • Tananarive Due
    Tananarive Due
    Tananarive Due is an American author.-Biography:Tananarive Priscilla Due was born in Tallahassee, Florida, the oldest of three daughters of civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due and civil rights lawyer John D. Due Jr...

    : "Patient Zero"
  • Charles Stross
    Charles Stross
    Charles David George "Charlie" Stross is a British writer of science fiction, Lovecraftian horror and fantasy. He was born in Leeds.Stross specialises in hard science fiction and space opera...

    : "A Colder War
    A Colder War
    "A Colder War" is an English-language, alternate history novelette by Charles Stross written circa 1997.The story fuses the Cold War and the Cthulhu Mythos by exploring the consequences of a follow-up to the expedition in H. P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness...

    "
  • Steven Utley
    Steven Utley
    Steven Utley is an American writer. He has written poems, humorous essays and other non-fiction, and worked on comic books and cartoons, but is best known for his science fiction stories.-Biography:...

    : "The Real World"
  • M. Shayne Bell
    M. Shayne Bell
    M. Shayne Bell is an American science fiction writer.He debuted with the story "Jacob's Ladder" in 1986 in the Writers of the Future book and contest, in which it won first prize for the second quarter of 1986. He has written only one novel, Nicoji, in 1991, but has remained active at shorter...

    : "The Thing About Benny"
  • Robert Charles Wilson
    Robert Charles Wilson
    Robert Charles Wilson is an American-Canadian science fiction author.Wilson was born in the United States in California, but grew up near Toronto, Ontario. Apart from another short period in the early 1970s spent in Whittier, California, he has lived most of his life in Canada, and in 2007 he...

    : "The Great Goodbye"
  • Ian McDonald
    Ian McDonald (author)
    Ian McDonald is a British science fiction novelist, living in Belfast. His themes include nanotechnology, postcyberpunk settings, and the impact of rapid social and technological change on non-Western societies.- Biography :...

    : "Tendeléo's Story"
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