The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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This collection is the second installment in the popular and long-running "The Year's Best Science Fiction" series:
 
Fantastic Science Fiction!
 
The Year's Best -- And Biggest Collection
 
Here's the cream of the crop: short stories, novelettes, novellas by science fiction writers already famous and awarded for their high-quality work in science fiction.  Writers like:

Robert Silverberg
Lucius Shepard
Jack McDevitt
Octavia E. Butler
Connie Willis
Richard Cowper
John Varley
Gene Wolfe

Contents
9 • Introduction: Summation: 1984 • essay by Gardner Dozois
27 • Salvador • (1984) • shortstory by Lucius Shepard
45 • Promises to Keep • (1984) • novelette by Jack McDevitt
63 • Bloodchild • (1984) • novelette by Octavia E. Butler
82 • Blued Moon • (1984) • novelette by Connie Willis
113 • A Message to the King of Brobdingnag • (1984) • novelette by Richard Cowper
135 • The Affair • (1984) • shortstory by Robert Silverberg
153 • Press Enter [] • (1984) • novella by John Varley
207 • New Rose Hotel • (1984) • shortstory by William Gibson
219 • The Map • [Solar Cycle] • (1984) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe
232 • Interlocking Pieces • (1984) • shortstory by Molly Gloss
239 • Trojan Horse • (1984) • novelette by Michael Swanwick
269 • Bad Medicine • (1984) • novelette by Jack Dann
291 • At the Embassy Club • (1984) • shortstory by Elizabeth A. Lynn
301 • Pursuit of Excellence • (1984) • novelette by Rena Yount
319 • The Kindly Isle • (1984) • shortstory by Frederik Pohl
341 • Rock On • (1984) • shortstory by Pat Cadigan
350 • Sunken Gardens • [Shaper/Mechanist] • (1984) • shortstory by Bruce Sterling
365 • Trinity • (1984) • novella by Nancy Kress
409 • The Trouble With the Cotton People • (1984) • shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
420 • Twilight Time • (1984) • novelette by Lewis Shiner
440 • Black Coral • (1984) • novelette by Lucius Shepard
466 • Friend • (1984) • novelette by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
484 • Foreign Skins • (1984) • novelette by Tanith Lee
511 • Company in the Wings • (1983) • shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
524 • A Cabin on the Coast • (1984) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe
536 • The Lucky Strike • (1984) • novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
569 • Honorable Mentions: 1984 • essay by Gardner Dozois