Year's Best SF 17 (Year's Best SF Series) - Softcover

Hartwell, David G.; Cramer, Kathryn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062035878 ISBN 13: 9780062035875

Publisher: Harper Voyager, 2012

Synopsis

The short story is one of the most vibrant and exciting areas in science fiction today. It is where the hot new authors emerge and where the beloved giants of the field continue to publish. Now, building on the success of the first fourteen volumes, Eos will once again present a collection of the best stories of 2011 in mass market. Here, selected and compiled by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, two of the most respected editors in the field, are stories with visions of tomorrow and yesterday, of the strange and the familiar, of the unknown and the unknowable. With stories from an all-star team of science fiction authors "The Year's Best SF 17" is an indispensable guide for every science fiction fan.

About this title

About the Author:

Kathryn Cramer (www.kathryncramer.com) is a writer and anthologist. She won a World Fantasy Award for best anthology for The Architecture of Fear co-edited with Peter Pautz; she was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for her anthology, Walls of Fear. She co-edits anthologies with David G. Hartwell such as the huge anthologies of hard sf, The Ascent of Wonder, The Space Opera Renaissance, and The Hard SF Renaissance, and does the annual Year's Best Fantasy and the Year's Best SF with him. She is an editor of The New York Review of Science Fiction, for which she has been nominated for the Hugo Award seventeen times). Her dark fantasy hypertext In Small and Large Pieces was published by Eastgate Systems, Inc. She is employed by Wolfram Research and by L. W. Currey, Inc. David G. Hartwell (www.davidghartwell.com) is a Senior Editor of Tor/Forge Books. His doctorate is in Comparative Medieval Literature. He is the proprietor of Dragon Press, publisher and bookseller, which publishes The New York Review of Science Fiction; and the President of David G. Hartwell, Inc. He is the author of Age of Wonders and the editor of many anthologies, including The Dark Descent; The World Treasury of Science Fiction, The Hard SF Renaissance, The Space Opera Renaissance, and a number of Christmas anthologies, among others. Recently he co-edited his fifteenth annual paperback volume of Year's Best SF, and co-edited the ninth Year's Best Fantasy. John Updike, reviewing The World Treasury of Science Fiction in The New Yorker, characterized him as a loving expert. He is on the board of the IAFA, and is co-chairman of the board of the World Fantasy Convention, and an Administrator of the Philip K. Dick Award. He has won the Eaton Award, the World Fantasy Award, and has been nominated for the Hugo Award forty times to date, winning as Best Editor in 2006, 2008, and 2009.

From the Back Cover:

Once again, the finest short-form sf offerings of the year have been collected in a single volume. With Year's Best SF 17, acclaimed, award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer demonstrate the amazing depth and power of contemporary speculative fiction, showcasing astonishing stories from some of the genre's most respected names as well as exciting new writers to watch. Prepare to travel light years from the ordinary into a tomorrow at once breathtaking, frightening, and possible, with tales of wonder from:

Elizabeth Bear
Gregory Benford
Neil Gaiman
Nancy Kress
Michael Swanwick
and others.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Voyager
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0062035878
• ISBN 13: 9780062035875
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 512