The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 12, edited by Gardner Dozois

#GardnerDozois 's best short SF of the year collections are always good, but the 1998 one might be the best I've read. My favourite story was a re-read of Ted Chiang's Story of Your Life (later adapted as Arrival) and there are also extremely memorable […]

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Best New SF 6 (published elsewhere under the title 'The Year's Best Science Fiction, Ninth Annual Collection), edited by Gardner Dozois

#GardnerDozois 's yearly #SciFi collections are slowly taking over my bookshelf. This one from 1991 starts extremely strongly with Nancy Kress's 'Beggars in Spain', which I believe she later reworked into her most well known novel. She really is the best […]

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The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 28, edited by Gardner Dozois

Finished another of my growing collection of gigantic #GardnerDozois anthologies of best short sci fi from a year - this one, 2014. These collections are always so good, and diverse in themes and moods. #NancyKress ends this one on a particularly high note […]

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2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 144: #ArtigliEFusa (in English #MAGICATS!) edited by #JackDann and #GardnerDozois

After a tough day (week?)it’s finally #Caturday and we celebrate it with a collection of #tales and #shortstories, including one from #StephenKing himself named #TheCatFromHell!🐱

The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 27, edited by Gardner Dozois

#FinishedReading another brick of best-of-the-year picks of #SF #SciFi short stories selected by #GardnerDozois . These are always good, but the two stories from this 2013 collection that really floored me were both by #NancyKress . I need to seek out more […]

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