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The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 22
About This Book
Condition & Size
📖 Condition: Score 6.5/10 Good-Very Good
Observations: None
📏 Size: Format B (Medium Format 129x178mm/135x216mm) Paperback
Summary
This volume presents a collection of science fiction stories. It includes stories by the bright young talents of science fiction, as well as a host of established masters. The usual thorough summation of the year and recommended reading lists are also included.
xiii Summation: 2008 (2009) essay by Gardner Dozois
1 Turing's Apples (2008) short story by Stephen Baxter
18 From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled (2008) short story by Michael Swanwick (variant of From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled ...)
36 The Gambler (2008) novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
57 Boojum [Boojum] (2008) short story by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
73 The Six Directions of Space (2008) novella by Alastair Reynolds
122 N-Words (2008) short story by Ted Kosmatka
136 An Eligible Boy [India 2047] (2008) novelette by Ian McDonald
159 Shining Armour (2008) short story by Dominic Green (variant of Shining Armor)
175 The Hero [Virga] (2008) novelette by Karl Schroeder
196 Evil Robot Monkey (2008) short story by Mary Robinette Kowal
199 Five Thrillers (2008) novelette by Robert Reed
236 The Sky That Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black (2008) short story by Jay Lake
245 Incomers [The Quiet War] (2008) short fiction by Paul J. McAuley
263 Crystal Nights (2008) novelette by Greg Egan
284 The Egg Man (2008) novelette by Mary Rosenblum
304 His Master's Voice (2008) short story by Hannu Rajaniemi
315 The Political Prisoner (2008) novella by Charles Coleman Finlay
369 Balancing Accounts (2008) short story by James L. Cambias
385 Special Economics (2008) novelette by Maureen F. McHugh
409 Days of Wonder (2008) novelette by Geoff Ryman
441 City of the Dead [Jackaroo] (2008) novelette by Paul J. McAuley [as by Paul McAuley]
464 The Voyage Out [Buonarotti Transit] (2007) short story by Gwyneth Jones
480 The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm (2008) novelette by Daryl Gregory
498 G-Men [The Enemy Within] (2008) novelette by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
529 The Erdmann Nexus (2008) novella by Nancy Kress
588 Old Friends (2008) short story by Garth Nix
595 The Ray-Gun: A Love Story (2008) novelette by James Alan Gardner
614 Lester Young and the Jupiter's Moons' Blues (2008) novelette by Gord Sellar
642 Butterfly, Falling at Dawn [Universe of Xuya] (2008) novelette by Aliette de Bodard
662 The Tear (2008) novella by Ian McDonald
713 Honorable Mentions: 2008 (2009) essay by Gardner Dozois
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