Year's Best SF 10

A banner year for speculative fiction has yielded a crop of superb short form SF. Now the very best to appear over the past twelve months has been amassed into one extraordinary volume by acclaimed editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, offering bold visions of days to come that are bright, triumphant, breathtaking, and strikingly unique. Once more, celebrated masters of the field join with exciting new voices to sing of explorations and invasions, grand technological accomplishments, amazing flights into the unknown, horrors and miracles, and the human condition. Welcome to amazing worlds that could be -- and, perhaps, sooner than you have ever dared to imagine. New tales from: Gregory Benford Terry Bisson James Patrick Kelly Pamela Sargent Jack McDevitt Gene Wolfe and more. Contents xi * Introduction (Year's Best SF 10) * (2005) * essay by Kathryn Cramer and David G. Hartwell 1 * Sergeant Chip * (2004) * novella by Bradley Denton 53 * The First Commandment * (2004) * shortstory by Gregory Benford 69 * Burning Day * (2003) * novelette by Glenn Grant 111 * Scout's Honor * (2004) * shortstory by Terry Bisson 128 * Venus Flowers at Night * (2004) * novella by Pamela Sargent 169 * Pulp Cover * (2004) * shortstory by Gene Wolfe 182 * The Algorithms for Love * (2004) * shortstory by Ken Liu (variant of Algorithms for Love) 199 * Glinky * (2004) * shortstory by Ray Vukcevich 219 * The Red City * (2004) * novelette by Janeen Webb 253 * Act of God * (2004) * shortstory by Jack McDevitt 265 * Wealth * (2004) * shortstory by Robert Reed 279 * Mastermindless * [Henghis Hapthorn] * (2004) * novelette by Matthew Hughes 304 * Time, as It Evaporates. . . * (2004) * shortstory by Jean-Claude Dunyach (variant of Le Temps, en s'evaporant 1986) 323 * The Battle of York * (2004) * novelette by James Stoddard 347 * Loosestrife * (2004) * shortstory by Liz Williams 360 * The Dark Side of Town * (2004) * shortstory by James Patrick Kelly 377 * Invisible Kingdoms * [Silurian Tales] * (2004) * shortstory by Steven Utley 390 * The Cascade * (2004) * shortstory by Sean McMullen 409 * Pervert * (2004) * shortstory by Charles Coleman Finlay 422 * The Risk-Taking Gene as Expressed in Some Asian Subjects * (2004) * novelette by Steve Tomasula 453 * Strood * (2004) * shortstory by Neal Asher 469 * The Eckener Alternative * (2004) * shortstory by James L. Cambias 479 * Savant Songs * (2004) * shortstory by Brenda Cooper