Year's Best SF 14

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Unique visions and astonishments—new stories by: Tobias S. Buckell and Karl Schroeder Cory Doctorow Neil Gaiman Kathleen Ann Goonan Alastair Reynolds Michael Swanwick Last year's best short-form SF—selected by acclaimed, award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer—offers stunning new extrapolations on what awaits humankind beyond the next dawn. The art of the story is explored boldly and provocatively in this powerful new collection of Year's Best speculative fiction. Title Page......Page 2 Dedication Page......Page 3 Contents......Page 4 Introduction......Page 7 Arkfall......Page 12 Orange......Page 74 Memory Dog......Page 84 Pump Six......Page 116 Boojum......Page 155 Exhalation......Page 178 Traitor......Page 197 The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away......Page 212 Oblivion: A Journey......Page 258 The House Left Empty......Page 284 The Scarecrow’s Boy......Page 305 N-Words......Page 315 Fury......Page 332 Cheats......Page 367 The Ships Like Clouds, Risen by Their Rain......Page 388 The Egg Man......Page 411 Glass......Page 440 Fixing Hanover......Page 447 Message Found in a Gravity Wave......Page 465 Mitigation......Page 469 Spiders......Page 498 Acknowledgments......Page 507 About the Editors......Page 508 Praise......Page 509 Edited by David G. Hartwell......Page 510 Credits......Page 511 Copyright Notice......Page 512 About the Publisher......Page 514