2000 - The Year's Best Science Fiction Volume 17 edited by Gardner R. Dozois

In science fiction's early days, stories often looked past 1984 to the year 2000 as the far unknowable future. Here now, on the brink of the twenty-first century, the future remains as distant and as unknowable as ever . . . and science fiction stories continue to explore it with delightful results:

Collected in this anthology are such imaginative gems as:

"The Wedding Album" by David Marusek. In a high-tech future, the line between reality and simulation has grown thin . . . and it's often hard to tell who's on what side.

"Everywhere" by Geoff Ryman. Do the people who live in utopian conditions ever recognize them as such?

"Hatching the Phoenix" by Frederik Pohl. One of science fiction's Grand Masters returns with a star-crossing tale of the Heechee---the enigmatic, vanished aliens whose discarded technology guides mankind through the future.

"A Hero of the Empire" by Robert Silverberg. Showing that the past is as much a province of the imagination as the future, this novelette returns to an alternate history when the Roman Empire never fell to show us just how the course of history can be altered.

The twenty-seven stories in this collection imaginatively take us to nearby planets and distant futures, into the past and into universes no larger than a grain of sand. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents.

Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.



01) Summation: 1999 by Gardner Dozois
02) The Wedding Album by David Marusek
03) 10 to 16 to 1 by James Patrick Kelly
04) Winemaster by Robert Reed
05) Galactic North by Alastair Reynolds
06) Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance by Eleanor Arnason
07) People Came from Earth by Stephen Baxter
08) Green Tea by Richard Wadholm
09) The Dragon of Pripyat by Karl Schroeder
10) Written in Blood by Chris Lawson
11) Hatching the Phoenix by Frederik Pohl
12) Suicide Coast by M. John Harrison
13) Hunting Mother by Sage Walker
14) Mount Olympus by Ben Bova
15) Border Guards by Greg Egan
16) Scherzo with Tyrannosaur by Michael Swanwick
17) A Hero of the Empire by Robert Silverberg
18) How We Lost the Moon, a True Story by Frank W. Allen by Paul J. McAuley
19) Phallicide by Charles Sheffield
20) Daddy's World by Walter Jon Williams
21) A Martian Romance by Kim Stanley Robinson
22) The Sky-Green Blues by Tanith Lee
23) Exchange Rate by Hal Clement
24) Everywhere by Geoff Ryman
25) Hothouse Flowers by Mike Resnick
26) Evermore by Sean Williams
27) Of Scorned Women and Causal Loops by Robert Grossbach
28) Son Observe the Time by Kage Baker
29) Honorable Mentions: 1999 by Gardner Dozois

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