The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection

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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection

Editor	Gardner Dozois
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	The Year's Best Science Fiction
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	St. Martin's Griffin
Publication date	1999
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	609 pp
ISBN	978-0-312-20445-7
Preceded by	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection
Followed by	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 1999. It is the 16th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series.

Contents[]

The book includes a 49-page summation by Dozois; 25 stories, all that first appeared in 1998, and each with a two-paragraph introduction by Dozois; and a seven-page referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows.

• Greg Egan: "Oceanic"
• Geoffrey A. Landis: "Approaching Perimelasma"
• Cory Doctorow: "Craphound"
• Tanith Lee: "Jedella Ghost"
• Bruce Sterling: "Taklamakan"
• Ursula K. Le Guin: "The Island Of the Immortals"
• Paul J. McAuley: "Sea Change, With Monsters"
• Robert Charles Wilson: "Divided By Infinity"
• Howard Waldrop: "US"
• Ian McDonald: "The Days Of Solomon Gursky"
• Robert Reed: "The Cuckoo's Boys"
• William Browning Spencer: "The Halfway House At the Heart Of Darkness"
• Michael Swanwick: "The Very Pulse of the Machine"
• Ted Chiang: "Story Of Your Life"
• Liz Williams: "Voivodoi"
• Stephen Baxter: "Saddlepoint: Roughneck"
• Rob Chilson: "This Side Of Independence"
• Chris Lawson: "Unborn Again"
• Tony Daniel: "Grist"
• Gwyneth Jones: "La Cenerentola"
• William Barton: "Down In the Dark"
• Jim Grimsley: "Free In Asveroth"
• Cherry Wilder: "The Dancing Floor"
• Ian R. MacLeod: "The Summer Isles"