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The Year's Best Science Fiction - 1st annual collection - 1984 - featuring the work of George R.R. Martin, Robert Silverberg, Poul Andersen, Greg Bear, and Bruce Sterling (pdfhost.io)

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Here's the cream of the crop: short stories, novelettes, novellas by science fiction writers already well known and awarded for their high-quality work in science fiction. These are writers like Poul Anderson, Joe Haldeman, Tanith Lee, George R. R. Martin, Robert Silverberg, James Tiptree, Jr, Vernor Vinge and Gene Wolfe.

Here also are writers who are newer to the field, but just as excellent, including high-powered talents such as Greg Bear, Jack Dann, Jack McDevitt, Pat Murphy, John Kessel, Rand B. Lee, Pat Cadigan, Kim Stanley Robinson, Bruce Sterling, and Dan Simmons. Altogether there are 250,000 words of great science fiction; twenty-five stories by twenty- four authors. These are the stories that will be nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Awards this year, the stories that years from now people will still be talking about.

The Year's Best Science Fiction was a series of science fiction anthologies edited by American Gardner Dozois until his death in 2018. The series, which is unrelated to the similarly titled and themed Year's Best SF, was published by St. Martin's Griffin. The collections were produced annually for 35 years starting in 1984.

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[–] Arotrios@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Inspired by a post over on @scifi by @Cwilliams.

[–] Virginicus@universeodon.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Arotrios That’s a pretty good lineup.

[–] Arotrios@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks - this anthology series was consistently good for the 35 years that Garner Dozois published it until his death in 2018, and I find the older volumes interesting particularly for the fact that he reliably chose up and comers that would go on to become huge names in sci-fi. This was the first volume - I'm hoping to find the others so I can eventually post the full series.