Year's Best SF 8

by David G. Hartwell

  Kathryn Cramer, writer and anthologist, won a World Fantasy Award for best anthology for The Architecture of Fear, co-edited with Peter Pautz. She is on the editorial board of The New York Review of Science Fiction and has been nominated for the Hugo Award ten times.

  Edited by David G. Hartwell

  YEAR’S BEST SF

  YEAR’S BESTSF 2

  YEAR’S BEST SF 3

  YEAR’S BEST SF 4

  YEAR’S BEST SF 5

  YEAR’S BEST SF 6

  Edited by David G. Hartwell

  & Kathryn Cramer

  YEAR’S BEST SF 7

  YEAR’S BEST SF 8

  YEAR’S BEST SF 9

  YEAR’S BEST F ANTASY

  YEAR’S BEST F ANTASY 2

  YEAR’S BEST F ANTASY 3

  Forthcoming

  YEAR’S BEST F ANTASY 4

  This is a collection of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  YEAR’S BEST SF 8

  “In Paradise” by Bruce Sterling, copyright © 2002 by Bruce Sterling. First published in F&SF, September 2002.

  “Slow Life” by Michael Swanwick, copyright © 2002 by Michael Swanwick. This story originally appeared in Analog.

  “Knapsack Poems” by Eleanor Arnason, copyright © 2002 by Eleanor Arnason. First published in Asimov’s. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agents, the Virginia Kidd Agency, Inc.

  “At Dorado” by Geoffrey A. Landis, copyright © 2002 by Geoffrey A. Landis. First published in Asimov’s.

  “Coelacanths” by Robert Reed, copyright © 2002 by Spilogale, Inc. First published in F&SF, March 2002. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Flight Correction” by Ken Wharton, copyright © 2002 by Ken Wharton. First published in Analog.

  “Shoes” by Robert Sheckley, copyright © 2002 by Robert Sheckley. First appeared in F&SF.

  “The Diamond Drill” by Charles Sheffield, copyright © 2002 by Charles Sheffield. First published in Analog.

  “The Seasons of the Ansarac” by Ursula K. Le Guin, copyright © 2002 by Ursula K. Le Guin. First appeared in Infinite Matrix. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agents, the Virginia Kidd Agency, Inc.

  “A Few Kind Words for A. E. Van Vogt” by Richard Chwedyk, copyright © 2002 by Richard Chwedyk. First published in Tales of the Unanticipated.

  “Halo” by Charles Stross, copyright © 2002 by Charles Stross. First published in Asimov’s.

  “I Saw the Light” by Terry Bisson, copyright © 2002 by Terry Bisson. First published in SciFi.com, Winter 2002. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s literary agent, Susan Ann Protter.

  “A Slow Day at the Gallery” by A. M. Dellamonica, copyright © 2002 by A. M. Dellamonica. First published in Asimov’s. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agents, the Virginia Kidd Agency, Inc.

  “Ailoura” by Paul Di Filippo, copyright © 2002 by Paul Di Filippo. First published in Once Upon a Galaxy.

  “The Names of All the Spirits” by J. R. Dunn, copyright © 2002 by J. R. Dunn. First appeared in SciFi.com. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Grandma” by Carol Emshwiller, copyright © 2002 by Carol Emshwiller. First published in F&SF.

  “Snow in the Desert” by Neal Asher, copyright © 2002 by Neal Asher. First published in Spectrum SF.

  “Singleton” by Greg Egan, copyright © 2002 by Greg Egan. First published in Interzone, #176, February 2002.

  “Geropods” by Robert Onopa, copyright © 2002 by Robert Onopa. First Published in F&SF.

  “Afterlife” by Jack Williamson, copyright © 2002 by Jack Williamson. First published in F&SF.

  “Shields of Mars” by Gene Wolfe, copyright © 2002 by Gene Wolfe. First appeared in Mars Probes. Reprinted by permission ot the author and the author’s agent, the Virginia Kidd Agency, Inc.

  “Patent Infringement” by Nancy Kress, copyright © 2002 by Nancy Kress. First published in Asimov’s.

  “Lost Sorceress of the Silent Citadel” by Michael Moorcock, copyright © 2002 by Michael and Linda Moorcock. First published in Mars Probes.

  Copyright © 2003 by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  Epub edition September 2004 ISBN 9780061757839

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