In 1984, Gardner Dozois gathered together what he thought was the best short science fiction of the previous year. He scrutinized as many of the magazines, collections and anthologies published in 1983 that he could get his hands on and chose those which he felt best represented the science fiction field. Jim Frenkel published it as part of his Bluejay Books line (for three years) and it has been produced every year since then (by St. Martins's Press). The book is produced in two formats: a hard cover edition and a perfect bound paper cover version. Contents: Sorted by Volume | Sorted by Author | Sorted by Title

2 Gene Wolfe A Cabin on the Coast 8 Michael Moorcock The Cairene Purse 12 Mary Rosenblum California Dreamer 21 Howard Waldrop Calling Your Name 23 Paolo Bacigalupi The Calorie Man 23 Robert Reed Camouflage 23 Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Back from the Stars 5 Joseph Manzione Candle in a Cosmic Wind 29 Chris Lawson Canterbury Hollow 8 Greg Egan The Caress 1 Dan Simmons Carrion Comfort 23 Ken MacLeod A Case of Consilience 13 Mary Rosenblum Casting at Pegasus 1 Gene Wolfe The Cat 11 Greg Egan Chaff 4 Connie Willis Chance 14 William Barton Changes 28 Cory Doctorow Chicken Little 19 Andy Duncan The Chief Designer 11 William Browning Spencer A Child's Christmas in Florida 23 Stephen Baxter The Children of Time 28 Jim Hawkins Chimbwi 29 Paul McAuley The Choice 14 Robert Reed Chrysalis 8 Connie Willis Cibola 1 Bruce Sterling Cicada Queen 12 Stephen Baxter Cilia-of-Gold 26 Paul McAuley City Of The Dead 22 Michael F. Flynn The Clapping Hands of God 20 Gregory Benford The Clear Blue Seas of Luna 23 Dominic Green The Clockwork Atom Bomb 12 Greg Egan Cocoon 29 Pat Cadigan Cody 20 Robert Reed Coelacanths 15 Gregory Benford & Elisabeth Malartre A Cold, Dry Cradle 29 Ian R. MacLeod The Cold Step Beyond 18 Charles Stross A Colder War 23 Gene Wolfe Comber 13 Ursula K. Le Guin Coming of Age in Karhide by Sov Thade Tage em Ereb, of Rer, in Karhide, on Gethen 10 Ian Watson The Coming of Vertumnus 2 R. A. Lafferty Company in the Wings 19 Nancy Kress Computer Virus 21 Vernor Vinge The Cookie Monster 8 Dafydd ab Hugh The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk 29 Paul Cornell The Copenhagen Interpretation 14 Maureen F. McHugh The Cost to Be Wise 14 Gene Wolfe Counting Cats in Zanzibar 4 Michael Swanwick Covenant of Souls 16 Cory Doctorow Craphound 25 Kristine Kathyrn Rusch Craters 12 Michael Bishop Cri de Coeur 27 Paul McAuley Crimes and Glory 15 G. David Nordley Crossing Chao Meng Fu 18 Albert E. Cowdrey Crux 1 Jack McDevitt Cryptic 26 Greg Egan Crystal Nights 16 Robert Reed The Cuckoo's Boys 18 Severna Park The Cure for Everything 11 Neal Barrett, Jr. Cush 17 Walter Jon Williams Daddy's World 29 Michael Swanwick The Dala Horse 24 Daryl Gregory Damascus 16 Cherry Wilder The Dancing Floor 11 Nancy Kress Dancing on Air 17 Eleanor Arnason Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance 9 Karen Joy Fowler The Dark 25 Gregory Benford Dark Heaven 19 Allen Steele The Days Between 16 Ian McDonald The Days of Solomon Gursky 26 Geoff Ryman Days Of Wonder 14 Michael Swanwick The Dead 28 Robert Reed Dead Man's Run 24 Paul J. McAuley Dead Men Walking 12 Geoff Ryman Dead Space for the Unexpected 21 Jack Skillingstead Dead Worlds 21 Terry Bisson Dear Abbey 8 Alexander Jablokov The Death Artist 14 Robert Silverberg Death Do Us Part 13 Allen Steele The Death of Captain Future 13 Pat Cadigan Death in the Promised Land 11 Connie Willis Death on the Nile 7 Alexander Jablokov A Deeper Sea 22 Colin P. Davies The Defenders 22 Vandana Singh Delhi 9 Mark L. Van Name & Pat Murphy Desert Rain 23 Hannu Rajaniemi Deus Ex Homine 29 Ian McDonald Digging 29 Jim Hawkins Digital Rites 5 Neal Barrett, Jr. Diner 3 Bruce Sterling Dinner in Audoghast 5 Walter Jon Williams Dinosaurs 9 Pat Cadigan Dispatches from the Revolution 6 Kathe Koja Distances 16 Robert Charles Wilson Divided by Infinity 24 Ian McDonald The Djinn's Wife 6 Howard Waldrop Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance? 19 Michael Swanwick The Dog Said Bow-Wow 3 Michael Swanwick & William Gibson Dogfight 29 Elizabeth Bear Dolly 7 Bruce Sterling Dori Bangs 4 Kim Stanley Robinson Down and Out in the Year 2000 16 William Barton Down in the Dark 14 Cherry Wilder Dr. Tilmann's Consultant: A Scientific Romance 6 Michael Swanwick The Dragon Line 17 Karl Schroeder The Dragon of Pripyat 21 Nick DiChario Dragonhead 22 Robert Reed The Dragons of Summer Gulch 5 Bruce McAllister Dream Baby 14 Tony Daniel A Dry, Quiet War 3 Avram Davidson Duke Pasquale's Ring 10 Greg Egan Dust 6 David Alexander Smith Dying in Hull 29 Peter M. Ball Dying Young 29 Ken MacLeod Earth Hour 15 Alan Brennert Echoes 7 Michael Swanwick The Edge of the World 27 Chris Roberson Edison's Frankenstein 7 Steven Popkes The Egg 26 Mary Rosenblum The Egg Man 21 Nancy Kress EJ-ES 28 Hannu Rajaniemi Elegy for a Young Elk 26 Ian McDonald An Eligible Boy 13 William Sanders Elvis Bearpaw's Luck 10 Jonathan Lethem & Lukas Jaeger The Elvis National Theater of Okinawa 5 Ian Watson The Emir's Clock 6 Stephen Kraus Emissary 28 Allen M. Steele The Emperor of Mars 7 Lucius Shepard The Ends of the Earth 7 Robert Silverberg Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another 26 Nancy Kress The Erdmann Nexus 27 Ian Creasey Erosion 15 Peter F. Hamilton Escape Route 27 Jo Walton Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction 10 Connie Willis Even the Queen 5 Octavia E. Butler The Evening and the Morning and the Night 27 John Kessel Events Preceding the Helvetican Revolution 5 Susan Palwick Ever After 17 Sean Williams Evermore 24 John Barnes Every Hole Is Outlined 17 Geoff Ryman Everywhere 26 Mary Robinette Kowal Evil Robot Monkey 17 Hal Clement Exchange Rate 21 Geoffrey A. Landis The Eyes of America 9 Rick Shelley Eyewall

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