The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection

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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection

Editor	Gardner Dozois
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	The Year's Best Science Fiction
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	St. Martin's Press
Publication date	1991
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	624 pp
ISBN	978-0-312-06008-4
Preceded by	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection
Followed by	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 1991. It is the 8th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series.

Contents[]

The book begins with a 22-page summation by Dozois describing important events in science fiction publishing during 1990. It includes 25 science fiction stories selected by Dozois that first appeared in 1990. The stories are as follows^[1]

• James Patrick Kelly: "Mr. Boy"
• Ursula K. Le Guin: "The Shobies' Story"
• Greg Egan: "The Caress"
• Charles Sheffield: "A Braver Thing"
• Bruce Sterling: "We See Things Differently"
• Kate Wilhelm: "And the Angels Sing"
• Ian R. MacLeod: "Past Magic"
• Terry Bisson: "Bears Discover Fire"
• Lucius Shepard and Robert Frazier: "The All-Consuming"
• Molly Gloss: "Personal Silence"
• John Kessel: "Invaders"
• Michael Moorcock: "The Cairene Purse"
• Dafydd ab Hugh: "The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, a Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk"
• Ted Chiang: "Tower of Babylon"
• Alexander Jablokov: "The Death Artist"
• John Brunner: "The First Since Ancient Persia"
• Nancy Kress: "Inertia"
• Greg Egan: "Learning to be Me"
• Connie Willis: "Cibola"
• Jonathan Lethem: "Walking the Moons"
• Ian McDonald: "Rainmaker Cometh"
• Robert Silverberg: "Hot Sky"
• Lewis Shiner: "White City"
• Pat Murphy: "Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates"
• Joe Haldeman: "The Hemingway Hoax"

References[]

External links[]

• Story synapses by Brian Davies (scroll down)