Year's Best SF 12
Encyclopedia
Year's Best SF 12 is a science fiction anthology edited by David G. Hartwell
and Kathryn Cramer
that was published in 2007. It is the twelfth in the Year's Best SF
series.
introduction by the editors.
David G. Hartwell
David Geddes Hartwell is an American editor of science fiction and fantasy. He has worked for Signet , Berkley Putnam , Pocket , and Tor Books David Geddes Hartwell (b. July 10, 1941) is an American editor of science fiction and fantasy. He has worked for Signet (1971–1973), Berkley Putnam...
and Kathryn Cramer
Kathryn Cramer
Kathryn Elizabeth Cramer is an American science fiction author, editor, and literary critic.- Life :Cramer grew up in Seattle, and currently lives in Pleasantville, New York with her husband David G. Hartwell and their two children. She is the daughter of physicist John G. Cramer...
that was published in 2007. It is the twelfth in the Year's Best SF
Year's Best SF
Year's Best SF is a science fiction anthology series edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. Hartwell started the series in 1996, and has been co-editing it with Cramer since 2002. It is published by HarperCollins under the Eos imprint...
series.
Contents
The book itself, as well as each of the stories, has a shortintroduction by the editors.
- Nancy KressNancy KressNancy 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...
: "Nano Comes to Clifford Falls" (Originally in Asimov'sAsimov's Science FictionAsimov's Science Fiction is an American science fiction magazine which publishes science fiction and fantasy and perpetuates the name of author and biochemist Isaac Asimov...
, 2006) - Terry BissonTerry BissonTerry Ballantine Bisson is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his short stories...
: "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" (Originally in Golden Age SF: Tales of a Bygone Future, 2006) - Cory DoctorowCory DoctorowCory Efram Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licences for his books...
: "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth" (Originally in FlurbFlurbFlurb is a science fiction webzine, edited by noted science fiction author Rudy Rucker. In addition to short stories, Flurb features paintings and photography by Rucker. It is released biannually...
, 2006) - Heather Lindsley: "Just Do It!" (Originally in F&SFThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science FictionThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is a digest-size American fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House and then by Fantasy House. Both were subsidiaries of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Publications, which took over as publisher in 1958. Spilogale, Inc...
, 2006) - Gardner R. DozoisGardner DozoisGardner Raymond Dozois is an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004...
: "Counterfactual" (Originally in F&SF, 2006) - Edd Vick: "Moon Does Run" (Originally in Electric VelocipedeElectric VelocipedeElectric Velocipede is a Hugo Award winning small press speculative fiction zine edited by John Klima. First published in 2001, Electric Velocipede has featured stories by some of the genre's leading fiction writers, including Hal Duncan, Jeffrey Ford, Catherynne M. Valente and Leslie What...
, 2006) - Mary RosenblumMary RosenblumMary Rosenblum is a science fiction and mystery author. Mary Rosenblum grew up in Allison Park, "a dead little coal mining town outside Pittsburgh PA," and attended Reed College in Oregon, earning a biology degree. She attended the Clarion West workshop in 1988.Her first story came out in 1990...
: "Home Movies" (Originally in Asimov's, 2006) - Rudy RuckerRudy RuckerRudolf von Bitter Rucker is an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and philosopher, and is one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. The author of both fiction and non-fiction, he is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy, the first two of...
: "Chu and the Nants" (Originally in Asimov's, 2006) - Ian Creasey: "Silence in Florence" (Originally in Asimov's, 2006)
- Kameron Hurley: "The Women of Our Occupation" (Originally in Strange HorizonsStrange HorizonsStrange Horizons is an online speculative fiction magazine. It also features speculative poetry in every issue....
, 2006) - Claude LalumièreClaude LalumièreClaude Lalumière is an author, book reviewer and has edited numerous anthologies. A resident of Montreal, he writes the Montreal Gazette's Fantastic Fiction column. He also owned and operated two independent book stores in Montreal. He and Rupert Bottenberg are co-creators of...
: "This Is the Ice Age" (Originally in Mythspring, 2006) - Eileen GunnEileen GunnEileen Gunn is a science fiction author and editor based in Seattle, Washington, who began publishing in 1978....
: "Speak, Geek" (Originally in NatureNature (journal)Nature, first published on 4 November 1869, is ranked the world's most cited interdisciplinary scientific journal by the Science Edition of the 2010 Journal Citation Reports...
, 2006) - Joe HaldemanJoe HaldemanJoe William Haldeman is an American science fiction author.-Life :Haldeman was born June 9, 1943 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His family traveled and he lived in Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Bethesda, Maryland and Anchorage, Alaska as a child. Haldeman married Mary Gay Potter, known...
: "Expedition, with Recipes" (Originally in Elemental, 2006) - Liz WilliamsLiz WilliamsDr Liz Williams is a British science fiction writer. The Ghost Sister, her first novel, was published in 2001. Both this novel and her next, Empire of Bones were nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award. She is also the author of the Inspector Chen series.Williams is the daughter of a stage...
: "The Age of Ice" (Originally in Asimov's, 2006) - Michael Flynn: "Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth" (Originally in Asimov's, 2006)
- Gregory BenfordGregory BenfordGregory Benford is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine...
: "Applied Mathematical Theology" (Originally in Nature, 2006) - Carol EmshwillerCarol EmshwillerCarol Emshwiller is an American writer of avant garde short stories and science fiction who has won prizes ranging from the Nebula Award to the Philip K. Dick Award. Ursula K...
: "Quill" (Originally in Firebirds Rising, 2006) - Alastair ReynoldsAlastair ReynoldsAlastair 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...
: "Tiger, Burning" (Originally in Forbidden PlanetsForbidden Planets (Crowther book)Forbidden Planets is a science fiction anthology of all-new short stories edited by Peter Crowther, the fifth in his themed science fiction anthology series for DAW Books.. The stories are all intended to be inspired by the 1955 movie, Forbidden Planet...
, 2006) - Paul J. McAuley: "Dead Men Walking" (Originally in Asimov's, 2006)
- Daryl Gregory: "Damascus" (Originally in F&SF, 2006)
- Michael SwanwickMichael SwanwickMichael Swanwick is an American science fiction author. Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he began publishing in the early 1980s.-Biography:...
: "Tin Marsh" (Originally in Asimov's, 2006) - Ian R. MacLeodIan R. MacLeodIan R. MacLeod is a British science fiction and fantasy writer.He was born in Solihull near Birmingham. He studied law and worked as a civil servant before going freelance in early 1990s soon after he started publishing stories, attracting critical praise and awards nominations.-Writings:He is the...
: "Taking Good Care of Myself" (Originally in Nature, 2006) - Stephen BaxterStephen BaxterStephen Baxter is a prolific British hard science fiction author. He has degrees in mathematics and engineering.- Writing style :...
: "The Lowland Expedition" (Originally in AnalogAnalog Science Fiction and FactAnalog Science Fiction and Fact is an American science fiction magazine. As of 2011, it is the longest running continuously published magazine of that genre...
, 2006) - Wil McCarthyWil McCarthyWil McCarthy is a science fiction novelist, Chief Technology Officer for Galileo Shipyards , and the science columnist for Syfy...
: "Heisenberg Elementary" (Originally in Asimov's, 2006) - Robert ReedRobert Reed (author)Robert David Reed is a Hugo Award-winning American science fiction author. He has a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the Nebraska Wesleyan University. Reed is an "extraordinarily prolific" genre short-fiction writer with "Alone" being his 200th professional sale...
: "Rwanda" (Originally in Asimov's, 2006) - Charlie Rosenkrantz: "Preemption" (Originally in Analog, 2006)