The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 1999. It is the 15th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series.

Contents

The book includes a 49-page summation by Dozois; 28 stories, all that first appeared in 1997, 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.

• Robert Silverberg: "Beauty in the Night"
• Paul J. McAuley: "Second Skin"
• Nancy Kress: "Steamship Soldier on the Information Front"
• Greg Egan: "Reasons to Be Cheerful"
• Stephen Baxter: "Moon Six"
• Bill Johnson: "We Will Drink a Fish Together..."
• Peter F. Hamilton: "Escape Route"
• James Patrick Kelly: "Itsy Bitsy Spider"
• Alastair Reynolds: "A Spy in Europa"
• William Sanders: "The Undiscovered"
• Alan Brennert: "Echoes"
• David Marusek: "Getting to Know You"
• Gwyneth Jones: "Balinese Dancer"
• Robert Reed: "Marrow"
• Howard Waldrop: "Heart of Whitenesse"
• Michael Swanwick: "The Wisdom of Old Earth"
• Brian Stableford: "The Pipes of Pan"
• G. David Nordley: "Crossing Chao Meng Fu"
• Greg Egan: "Yeyuka"
• Carolyn Ives Gilman: "Frost Painting"
• Walter Jon Williams: "Lethe"
• Geoffrey A. Landis: "Winter Fire"
• Ian R. MacLeod: "Nevermore"
• Simon Ings: "Open Veins"
• Ian McDonald: "After Kerry"
• Sean Williams and Simon Brown: "The Masque of Agamemnon"
• John Kessel: "Gulliver at Home"
• Gregory Benford and Elisabeth Malartre: "A Cold Dry Cradle"

External links

• Story synapses by Brian Davies (scroll down)
• Review of Fifteenth Annual by Steven H. Silver