Year's Best SF 17

Once again, the finest short-form sf offerings of the year have been collected in a single volume. With "Year's Best SF 17, " acclaimed, award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer demonstrate the amazing depth and power of contemporary speculative fiction, showcasing astonishing stories from some of the genre's most respected names as well as exciting new writers to watch. Prepare to travel light years from the ordinary into a tomorrow at once breathtaking, frightening, and possible, with tales of wonder from: Elizabeth Bear
Gregory Benford
Neil Gaiman
Nancy Kress
Michael Swanwick
and others.

Contents

xi • Introduction (Year's Best SF 17) • essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
1 • The Best Science Fiction of the Year Three • (2011) • shortfiction by Ken MacLeod
16 • Dolly • (2011) • shortstory by Elizabeth Bear
34 • Altogether Elsewhere, Vast Herds of Reindeer • (2011) • shortstory by Ken Liu
48 • Tethered • (2011) • shortfiction by Mercurio D. Rivera
73 • Wahala • (2011) • shortfiction by Nnedi Okorafor
96 • Laika's Ghost • (2011) • novelette by Karl Schroeder
128 • Ragnarok • (2011) • poem by Paul Park
140 • Six Months, Three Days • (2011) • novelette by Charlie Anders [as by Charlie Jane Anders ]
163 • "And Weep Like Alexander" • (2011) • shortfiction by Neil Gaiman
169 • The Middle of Somewhere • (2011) • shortfiction by Judith Moffett
195 • Mercies • (2011) • novelette by Gregory Benford
220 • The Education of Junior Number 12 • [Machine Dynasties] • (2011) • shortfiction by Madeline Ashby
246 • Our Candidate • (2011) • shortstory by Robert Reed
261 • Thick Water • (2011) • shortfiction by Karen Heuler
281 • The War Artist • (2011) • shortstory by Tony Ballantyne
294 • The Master of the Aviary • (2011) • shortfiction by Bruce Sterling
323 • Home Sweet Bi'ome • (2011) • novelette by Pat MacEwen
346 • For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I'll Not Be Back Again • (2011) • shortstory by Michael Swanwick
364 • The Ki-anna • (2011) • novelette by Gwyneth Jones
388 • Eliot Wrote • (2011) • shortstory by Nancy Kress
403 • The Nearest Thing • (2011) • novelette by Genevieve Valentine
430 • A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel • (2011) • shortstory by Yoon Ha Lee
438 • The Ice Owl • (2011) • novella by Carolyn Ives Gilman