The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection

The thirty-two stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including:

John Barnes, Elizabeth Bear, Damien Broderick, Karl Bunker, Paul Cornell, Albert E. Cowdrey, Ian Creasey, Steven Gould, Dominic Green, Nicola Griffith, Alexander Irvine, John Kessel, Ted Kosmatka, Nancy Kress, Jay Lake, Rand B. Lee, Paul McAuley, Ian McDonald, Maureen F. McHugh, Sarah Monette, Michael Poore, Robert Reed, Adam Roberts, Chris Roberson, Mary Rosenblum, Geoff Ryman, Vandana Singh, Bruce Sterling, Lavie Tidhar, James Van Pelt, Jo Walton, Peter Watts, Robert Charles Wilson, and John C. Wright.

Supplementing the stories are the editor’s insightful summation of the year’s events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination, and the heart.

This anthology marks the 27th edition of the award-winning annual compilationof the year’s best science fiction stories.

Table of Contents:

Summation: 2009
Utriusque Cosmi / Robert Charles Wilson
A Story, With Beans / Steven Gould
Under the Shouting Sky / Karl Bunker
Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance / John Kessel
Useless Things / Maureen F. McHugh
Black Swan / Bruce Sterling
Crimes and Glory / Paul McAuley
Seventh Fall / Alex Irvine
Butterfly Bomb / Dominic Green
Infinities / Vandana Singh
Things Undone / John Barnes
On The Human Plan / Jay Lake
The Island / Peter Watts
The Integrity Of the Chain / Lavie Tidhar
Lion Walk / Mary Rosenblum
Escape to Other Worlds With Science Fiction / Jo Walton
Three Leaves Of Aloe / Rand B. Lee
Mongoose / Elizabeth Bear
Paradiso Lost / Albert E. Cowdrey
It Takes Two / Nicola Griffith
Blocked / Geoff Ryman
Solace / James Van Pelt
Act One / Nancy Kress
Twilight Of The Gods / John C. Wright
Blood Dauber / Michael Poore
This Wind Blowing and This Tide / Damien Broderick
Hair / Adam Roberts
Before My Last Breath / Robert Reed
One Of Our Bastards Is Missing / Paul Cornell
Edison’s Frankenstein / Chris Roberson
Erosion / Ian Creasey
Vishnu at the Cat Circus / Ian McDonald
Honorable Mentions: 2009