2001 - The Year's Best Science Fiction Volume 18

The twenty-three stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our being, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including:

Stephen Baxter, M.Shayne Bell, Rick Cook, Albert E. Cowdrey, Tananarive Due, Greg Egan, Eliot Fintushel, Peter F. Hamilton, Earnest Hogan, John Kessel, Nancy Kress, Ursula K. Le Guin, Paul J. McAuley, Ian McDonald, Susan Palwick, Severna Park, Alastair Reynolds, Lucius Shepard, Brian Stableford, Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, Steven Utley, Robert Charles Wilson

Supplementing the stories is the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and 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: 2000 by Gardner Dozois
02) The Juniper Tree by John Kessel
03) Antibodies by Charles Stross
04) The Birthday of the World by Ursula K. Le Guin
05) Savior by Nancy Kress
06) Reef by Paul J. McAuley
07) Going After Bobo by Susan Palwick
08) Crux by Albert E. Cowdrey
09) The Cure for Everything by Severna Park
10) The Suspect Genome by Peter F. Hamilton
11) The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O by Michael Swanwick
12) Radiant Green Star by Lucius Shepard
13) Great Wall of Mars by Alastair Reynolds
14) Milo and Sylvie by Eliot Fintushel
15) Snowball in Hell by Brian Stableford
16) On the Orion Line by Stephen Baxter
17) Oracle by Greg Egan
18) Obsidian Harvest by Rick Cook & Ernest Hogan
19) Patient Zero by Tananarive Due
20) A Colder War by Charles Stross
21) The Real World by Steven Utley
22) The Thing About Benny by M. Shayne Bell
23) The Great Goodbye by Robert Charles Wilson
24) Tendeléo's Story by Ian McDonald
25) Honorable Mentions: 2000 by Gardner Dozois

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