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The Year's Best Science Fiction Sixteenth Annual Collection Edited by Gardner Dozois St. Martin's Griffin New York ALSO BY GARDNER DOZOIS A N T H O L O G I E S A DAY IN THE LIFE ANOTHER WORLD BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF THE YEAR #6-10 THE BEST OF ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE TIME-TRAVELLERS FROM ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE TRANSCENDENTAL TALES FROM ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE ISAAC ASIMOV'S ALIENS ISAAC ASIMOV'S MARS ISAAC ASIMOV'S SF LITE ISAAC ASIMOV'S WAR ISAAC ASIMOV'S PLANET EARTH (WITH SHEILA WILLIAMS) ISAAC ASIMOV'S ROBOTS (WITH SHEILA WILLIAMS) ISAAC ASIMOV'S CYBERDREAMS (WITH SHEILA WILLIAMS) ISAAC ASIMOV'S VALENTINES (WITH SHEILA WILLIAMS) ISAAC ASIMOV'S SKIN DEEP (WITH SHEILA WILLIAMS) ISAAC ASIMOV'S GHOSTS (WITH SHEILA WILLIAMS) ISAAC ASIMOV'S DETECTIVES (WITH SHEILA WILLIAMS) ISAAC ASIMOV'S VAMPIRES (WITH SHEILA WILLIAMS) ISAAC ASIMOV'S MOONS (WITH SHEILA WILLIAMS) ISAAC ASIMOV'S CHRISTMAS (WITH SHEILA WILLIAMS) ISAAC ASIMOV'S CAMELOT (WITH SHEILA WILLIAMS) ROADS NOT TAKEN (WITH STANLEY SCHMIDT) THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, #1-15 FUTURE EARTHS: UNDER AFRICAN SKIES (WITH MIKE RESNICK) FUTURE EARTHS: UNDER SOUTH AMERICAN SKIES (WITH MIKE RESNICK) FUTURE POWER (WITH JACK DANN) ALIENS! (WITH JACK DANN) UNICORNS! (WITH JACK DANN) MAGICATS! (WITH JACK DANN) MAGICATS 2 (WITH JACK DANN) BESTIARY! (WITH JACK DANN) MERMAIDS! (WITH JACK DANN) SORCERERS! (WITH JACK DANN) DEMONS! (WITH JACK DANN) DOGTALES! (WITH JACK DANN) RIPPER! (WITH SUSAN CASPER) SEASERPENTS! (WITH JACK DANN) DINOSAURS! (WITH JACK DANN) LITTLE PEOPLE! (WITH JACK DANN) DRAGONS! (WITH JACK DANN) HORSES! (WITH JACK DANN) UNICORNS 2 (WITH JACK DANN) INVADERS! (WITH JACK DANN) ANGELS! (WITH JACK DANN) DINOSAURS II (WITH JACK DANN) HACKERS (WITH JACK DANN) TIMEGATES (WITH JACK DANN) CLONES (WITH JACK DANN) NANOTECH (WITH JACK DANN) IMMORTALS (WITH JACK DANN) MODERN CLASSICS OF SCIENCE FICTION MODERN CLASSIC SHORT NOVELS OF SCIENCE FICTION MODERN CLASSICS OF FANTASY KILLING ME SOFTLY DYING FOR IT THE GOOD OLD STUFF THE GOOD NEW STUFF F I C T I O N STRANGERS THE VISIBLE MAN (COLLECTION) NIGHTMARE BLUE (WITH GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER) SLOW DANCING THROUGH TIME (WITH JACK DANN, MICHAEL SWANWICK, SUSAN CASPER, AND JACK C. HALDEMAN II) THE PEACEMAKER GEODESIC DREAMS (COLLECTION) N O N F I C T I O N THE FICTION OF JAMES TIPTREE, JR. For the Gibsons: Shari, Jimmy, Jared, Steven, and Melissa. THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: SIXTEENTH ANNUAL COLLECTION. Copyright © 1999 by Gardner Dozois. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010. ISBN 0-312-26474-7 Electronic format made available by arrangement with St. Martin's Griffin peanutpress.com, Inc. www.peanutpress.com acknowledgment is made for permission to print the following material: "Oceanic," by Greg Egan. Copyright © 1998 by Dell Magazines. First published in Asimov's Science Fiction, August 1998. Reprinted by permission of the author. "Approaching Perimelasma," by Geoffrey A. Landis. Copyright © 1998 by Dell Magazines. First published in Asimov's Science Fiction, January 1998. Reprinted by permission of the author. "Craphound," by Cory Doctorow. Copyright © 1998 by Cory Doctorow. First published in Science Fiction Age, March 1998. Reprinted by permission of the author. "Jedella Ghost," by Tanith Lee. Copyright © 1998 by Interzone. First published in Interzone, September 1998. Reprinted by permission of the author. "Taklamakan," by Bruce Sterling. Copyright © 1998 by Dell Magazines. First published in Asimov's Science Fiction, October/November 1998. Reprinted by permission of the author. "The Island of the Immortals," by Ursula K. Le Guin. Copyright © 1998 by Wizards of the Coast, Inc. First published in Amazing Stories, Fall 1998. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author's agent, the Virginia Kidd Literary Agency. "Sea Change, with Monsters," by Paul J. McAuley. Copyright © 1998 by Dell Magazines. First published in Asimov's Science Fiction, September 1998. Reprinted by permission of the author. "Divided by Infinity," by Robert Charles Wilson. Copyright © 1998 byRobert Charles Wilson. First published in Starlight 2 (Tor). Reprinted by permission of the author. "US," by Howard Waldrop. Copyright © 1998 by Howard Waldrop. First published electronically online on Event Horizon (www.eventhorizon.com), October 1998. Reprinted by permission of the author. "The Days of Solomon Gursky," by Ian McDonald. Copyright © 1998 by Dell Magazines. First published in Asimov's Science Fiction, June 1998. Reprinted by permission of the author. "The Cuckoo's Boys," by Robert Reed. Copyright © 1998 by Robert Reed. First published in Science Fiction Age, September 1998. Reprinted by permission of the author. "The Halfway House at the Heart of Darkness," by William Browning Spencer. Copyright © 1998 by William Browning Spencer. First published in Lord of the Fantastic (Avon Eos). Reprinted by permission of the author. "The Very Pulse of the Machine," by Michael Swanwick. Copyright © 1998 by Dell Magazines. First published in Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1998. Reprinted by permission of the author. "Story of Your Life," by Ted Chiang. Copyright © 1998 by Ted Chiang. First published in Starlight 2 (Tor). Reprinted by permission of the author and the author's agent, the Virginia Kidd Literary Agency. "Voivodoi," by Liz Williams. Copyright © 1998 by Terra Incognita. First published in Terra Incognita, Summer 1998. Reprinted by permission of the author. "Saddlepoint: Roughneck" by Stephen Baxter. Copyright © 1998 by Stephen Baxter. First published in Science Fiction Age, May 1998. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author's agent, the Maggie Noach Agency. "This Side of Independence," by Rob Chilson. Copyright © 1998 by Mercury Press, Inc. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1998. Reprinted by permission of the author. "Unborn Again," by Chris Lawson. Copyright © 1998 by Chris Lawson. First published in Dreaming Down-Under (HarperCollins Australia). Reprinted by permission of the author. "Grist," by Tony Daniel. Copyright © 1998 by Dell Magazines. First published in Asimov's Science Fiction, December 1998. Reprinted by permission of the author. "La Cenerentola," by Gwyneth Jones. Copyright © 1998 by Interzone. First published in Interzone, October 1998. Reprinted by permission of the author. "Down in the Dark," by William Barton. Copyright © 1998 by Dell Magazines. First published in Asimov's Science Fiction, December 1998. Reprinted by permission of the author. "Free in Asveroth," by Jim Grimsley. Copyright © 1998 by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel. First published in Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction (The Overlook Press). Reprinted by permission of the author. "The Dancing Floor," by Cherry Wilder. Copyright © 1998 by Cherry Wilder. First published in Dreaming Down-Under (HarperCollins Australia). Reprinted bypermission of the author and the author's agent, James Frenkel and Associates. "The Summer Isles," by Ian R. MacLeod. Copyright © 1998 by Dell Magazines. First published in Asimov's Science Fiction, October/November 1998. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author's agent, Susan Ann Protter. acknowledgments The editor would like to thank the following people for their help and support: first and foremost, Susan Casper, for doing much of the thankless scut work involved in producing this anthology; Michael Swanwick, Ellen Datlow, Virginia Kidd, Jim Allen, Vaughne Lee Hansen, Sheila Williams, David Pringle, Charles C. Ryan, David G. Hartwell, Jack Dann, Janeen Webb, Warren Lapine, Jan Berriends, Ed McFadden, Tom Piccirilli, Nicola Griffith, Lawrence Person, Dwight Brown, Darrell Schweitzer, Corin See, and special thanks to my own editor, Gordon Van Gelder. Thanks are also due to Charles N. Brown, whose magazine Locus (Locus Publications, P.O. Box 13305, Oakland, CA 94661, $43 for a one-year
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