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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection (Year's Best Science Fiction) Best Price: $12.14 As always, this yearly collection of short and novella-length science fiction is superbly... | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection (Year's Best Science Fiction) Best Price: $6.21 This is honestly one of the best books I've read (ever). It's taken me a while but part of that... | Songs of the Dying Earth Best Price: $26.40 Today, in order to honor the magnificent career of Jack Vance, one unparalleled in achievement... | The New Space Opera Best Price: $2.00 While this anthology may appear to be aimed at newcomers to the genre (or subgenre), I doubt... | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction Best Price: $7.67 Dozois chooses the stories from the first 21 volumes of his series that he liked the most as a... |
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Hunter's Run Best Price: $5.18 When I bought this book I was thrilled to read a collaboration by such heavyweights as Martin... | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection (Year's Best Science Fiction) Best Price: $6.49 This is an above average quality Dozois Year's Best anthology, the average being 3.87. A few... | Wizards: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy Best Price: $0.78 Reviewed by Jeannine R. Burkholder
on 07/13/2008
Fantasy stories ignite the imagination in... | Roads Not Taken Best Price: $3.22 I really enjoy alternate history stories but these were poor. No intrigue, no what ifs, just... | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection Best Price: $6.98 "Most of the rising costs of books comes from the truly horrendous system of distribution... |
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Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection Best Price: $7.67 A great, standard example of one of these anthologies, with a 3.84 average. Even better, it... | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection (Year's Best Science Fiction) Best Price: $3.00 Jammed chock-full of science fiction goodness, the 22nd Annual Edition of "The Year's Best... | Galactic Empires Best Price: $5.00 This one goes to 11. Or, 5.5 out of 5, on the usual scale.
Two years, two space opera... | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection (Year's Best Science Fiction) Best Price: $3.50 I have only rated one of these stories as average, which I don't think has happened before, but... | Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons Best Price: $4.79 Gardner Dozois collected a bunch of science fiction adventure stories about exploration, ranging... |
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Modern Classics of Science Fiction Best Price: $0.93 Dozois picks some of his favorites from recent decades, and avoids some of the stories that have... | The Good Old Stuff: Adventure Sf in the Grand Tradition When I looked at the list of what was in this book I thought hmm.. Now that I have read the... | The Year's Best Science Fiction, Seventeenth Annual Collection Best Price: $14.39 Another excellent collection of stories (3.80 average). The introduction and summation is... | Escape from Earth: New Adventures in Space Best Price: $5.91 Imagine a world where interplanetary travel isn't just possible-it's commonplace. Human beings... | The Best of the Best, Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels Best Price: $1.95 In his introduction Dozois says he has chosen from his favorite novellas in the first twenty... |
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection (Year's Best Science Fiction) Best Price: $265.00 A definite return to form from the year before, this book averaging 3.75. There are four... | Galileo's Children: Tales Of Science VS. Superstition Best Price: $1.99 A collection with the theme of persecuted scientists, in general. Dozois has to together a high... | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection Best Price: $100.00 The earliest of these that I have come across. In fact, it would seen you could just about get... | The Year's Best Science Fiction Second Annual Collection 1985 First off, the other reviewer is reviewing some other edition, NOT the 16th. I should know, as I... | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection (Year's Best Science Fiction) Best Price: $15.49 Another fine quality Year's Best anthology, a 3.80 story average, which is right on standard. I... |
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Futures Past (Flights) Best Price: $0.30 Change the past-and the future may come undone. An outstanding collection of time-traveling... | The Year's Best Science Fiction, Thirteenth Annual Collection Best Price: $11.17 For this series, this is a down volume, with a Jekyll and Hyde personality. On one hand, it has... | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection A very impressive volume in this series, weighting in just a bit under the magic 4.00 number, at... | Beyond Singularity (Darkside) Best Price: $2.20 This is a very good showcase for different futures where mankind has changed beyond... | The Year's Best Science Fiction : Seventh Annual Collection Best Price: $54.39 A fair bit down this volume, for a Dozois Year's Best. A 3.62 average, and a lot more than usual... |
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Nebula Awards Showcase 2006 (Nebula Awards Showcase) Best Price: $1.98 "Nebula Awards Showcase 2006" is another collection of stories that you read and... | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection (Year's Best Science Fiction) Best Price: $2.99 A story average of 3.5 is not that amazing for something like this, but no doubt that overall it... | Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming Best Price: $3.50 A theme anthology that is specifically to do with terraforming, despite the somewhat more... | The Year's Best Science Fiction : Sixteenth Annual Collection Best Price: $6.15 A bit weaker for a Year's Best collection this book, averaging only 3.77, which as all other... | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection Best Price: $5.27 This is a down volume for this series, with a well below the norm story average of 3.61. It... |
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The Year's Best Science Fiction : Fourteenth Annual Collection Best Price: $29.50 A fine Year's Best anthology, averaging 3.88. A few average stories to be found here, but a... | The Year's Best Science Fiction, Eighteenth Annual Collection Best Price: $5.15 This is a superb collection, this year. The stories average a massive 4.11. As usual, there is... | The Good New Stuff: Adventure in SF in the Grand Tradition Best Price: $5.00 This is closing on the perfect anthology. The Good New Stuff averages 4.06, The Good Old Stuff... | Being Gardner Dozois Best Price: $16.25 Towards the end of this book, Gardner Dozois says, "I figure there's about five people in... | Isaac Asimov's Utopias Best Price: $5.99 What the title suggests, is what this book gives. This is a selection of science fiction stories... |
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Isaac Asimov's Mother's Day Best Price: $0.94 And you thought your relationship with your mother was strange... Join science fiction... | Strangers Best Price: $2.25 Humans have peaceful, if ineffectual trade relations with the alien humanoid race on Lisle. They... | The New Space Opera 2 Best Price: $10.87 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection This edition,very hard to find,is seriously in need of reprinting!! "Cicada Queen" by... | Time Travelers Best Price: $2.00 A well-trod theme, this book chooses the best stories about time travelling from the first... |
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection (Year's Best Science Fiction) Book publishing numbers up again, according to Dozois. He points out one interesting statistic -... | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection (Year's Best Science Fiction) Best Price: $3.43 This is an excellent collection (4.00 average), continuing the great work from the year before,... | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection (Year's Best Science Fiction) Best Price: $110.00 This volume is rare but can be found. Well worth the effort. 1. "R & R" by Lucius... | The Furthest Horizon: SF Adventures to the Far Future Best Price: $17.93 Though there are a few gems in this collection, the majority of stories here are difficult to... | Modern Classics of Fantasy Best Price: $8.15 An extensive tome, closing on the 700 page mark, so fine value. A good anthology, too, for... |
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Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction Best Price: $2.48 Definitely a good collection, as well. The 'Modern' pair of books make decent additions.
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Dragons! Best Price: $8.00 A collection of dragon stories from some of the masters of the fantasy genre includes... | Exploring the Horizons: Explorers, and The Furthest Horizon An anthology of 37 of the world's best short science fiction stories, put together by an editor... | Isaac Asimov's Skin Best Price: $26.52 This another in the "Isaac Asimov's" series that collects stories from his magazines... | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, 1977 : 6th Annual Collection Unlike the newer series, if you dropped this book on a cockroach, it would have at least some... | |