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

11 Bruce Sterling Sacred Cow 16 Stephen Baxter Saddlepoint: Roughneck 3 Robert Silverberg Sailing to Byzantium 4 Neal Barrett, Jr. Sallie C. 2 Lucius Shepard Salvador 6 James Lawson Sanctuary 25 Ian McDonald Sanjeev and Robotwallah 25 Gwyneth Jones Saving Tiamaat 18 Nancy Kress Savior 12 Howard Waldrop The Sawing Boys 6 Lucius Shepard The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter 17 Michael Swanwick Scherzo with Tyrannosaur 14 Damien Broderick Schrödinger's Dog 6 George Alec Effinger Schrödinger's Kitten 22 Terry Bisson Scout's Honor 4 Scott Baker Sea Change 25 Una McCormack Sea Change 16 Paul McAuley Sea Change, with Monsters 23 Mary Rosenblum Search Engine 23 Daryl Gregory Second Person, Present Tense 15 Paul McAuley Second Skin 21 Dominic Green Send Me a Mentagram 28 David Moles Seven Cities of Gold 12 Mike Resnick Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge 28 Naomi Novik Seven Years from Home 27 Alexander Irvine Seventh Fall 5 Lucius Shepard Shades 26 Dominic Green Shining Armour 28 Aliette de Bodard The Shipmaker 22 Nancy Kress Shiva in Shadow 8 Ursula K. Le Guin The Shobies' Story 3 Walter Jon Williams Side Effects 1 Connie Willis The Sidon in the Mirror 24 Alastair Reynolds Signal to Noise 29 Catherynne M. Valente Silently and Very Fast 7 Megan Lindholm Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man 20 Greg Egan Singleton 21 Paul Melko Singletons in Love 22 Paul Di Filippo Sisyphus and the Stranger 22 William Sanders Sitka 26 Alastair Reynolds The Six Directions Of Space 7 Kathe Koja Skin Deep 22 Mary Rosenblum Skin Deep 6 Kristine Kathryn Rusch Skin Deep 9 William Gibson Skinner's Room 26 Jay Lake The Sky That Wraps The World Round, Past The Blue And Into The Black 17 Tanith Lee The Sky-Green Blues 28 Joe Haldeman Sleeping Dogs 28 Alastair Reynolds Sleepover 20 Michael Swanwick Slow Life 1 Ian Watson Slow-Birds 29 Lavie Tidhar The Smell of Orange Groves 4 Tom Maddox Snake-Eyes 10 Ian R. MacLeod Snodgrass 3 John Crowley Snow 18 Brian Stableford Snowball in Hell 23 Neal Asher Softly Spoke the Gabbleduck 27 James Van Pelt Solace 29 David Moles A Soldier of the City 3 James Patrick Kelly Solstice 13 John Kessel Some Like It Cold 17 Kage Baker Son Observe the Time 14 Jim Cowan The Spade of Reason 3 Lucius Shepard A Spanish Lesson 26 Maureen F. McHugh Special Economics 12 Lisa Goldstein Split Light 28 Lavie Tidhar The Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String 15 Alastair Reynolds A Spy in Europa 6 Eileen Gunn Stable Strategies for Middle Management 13 Ian R. MacLeod Starship Day 28 Jay Lake and Ken Scholes The Starship Mechanic 22 Benjamin Rosenbaum Start the Clock 15 Nancy Kress Steamship Soldier on the Information Front 25 Greg Egan Steve Fever 20 John Kessel Stories for Men 16 Ted Chiang Story of Your Life 27 Steven Gould A Story, With Beans 4 Damon Knight Strangers on Paradise 25 Benjamin Rosenbaum & David Ackert Stray 21 William Shunn Strong Medicine 17 M. John Harrison Suicide Coast 28 Geoffrey A. Landis The Sultan of the Clouds 1 Gardner Dozois Summation: 1983 2   Summation: 1984 3   Summation: 1985 4   Summation: 1986 5   Summation: 1987 6   Summation: 1988 7   Summation: 1989 8   Summation: 1990 9   Summation: 1991 10   Summation: 1992 11   Summation: 1993 12   Summation: 1994 13   Summation: 1995 14   Summation: 1996 15   Summation: 1997 16   Summation: 1998 17   Summation: 1999 18   Summation: 2000 19   Summation: 2001 20   Summation: 2002 21   Summation: 2003 22   Summation: 2004 23   Summation: 2005 24   Summation: 2006 25   Summation: 2007 26   Summation: 2008 27   Summation: 2009 28   Summation: 2010 29   Summation: 2011 16 Ian R. MacLeod The Summer Isles 2 Bruce Sterling Sunken Gardens 6 Walter Jon Williams Surfacing 4 Judith Moffett Surviving 18 Peter F. Hamilton The Suspect Genome 22 Vernor Vinge Synthetic Serendipity 16 Bruce Sterling Taklamakan 7 Robert Silverberg Tales from the Venia Woods 4 Greg Bear Tangents 28 Pat Cadigan The Taste of Night 4 Jack M. Dann Tattoos 26 Ian McDonald The Tear 22 Paul Melko Ten Sigmas 18 Ian McDonald Tendeléo's Story 17 James Patrick Kelly Ten16 to 1 5 Paul McAuley The Temporary King 10 Bradley Denton The Territory 13 Terry Bisson There Are No Dead 11 Steven Utley There and Then 13 James Patrick Kelly Think Like a Dinosaur 18 M. Shayne Bell The Thing About Benny 28 Peter Watts The Things 27 John Barnes Things Undone 22 David Moles The Third Party 7 Alan Brennert The Third Sex 14 James P. Blaylock Thirteen Phantasms 16 Rob Chilson This Side of Independence 27 Damien Broderick This Wind Blowing, And This Tide 27 Rand B. Lee Three Leaves of Aloe 25 Elizabeth Bear Tideline 24 Michael Swanwick Tin Marsh 7 Judith Moffett Tiny Tango 9 Robert Silverberg A Tip on a Turtle 20 Chris Beckett To Become a Warrior 22 M. John Harrison Tourism 8 Ted Chiang Tower of Babylon 24 A.M. Dellamonica The Town on Blighted Sea 22 Albert E. Cowdrey The Tribes of Bela 23 Michael Swanwick Triceratops Summer 2 Nancy Kress Trinity 2 Michael Swanwick Trojan Horse 2 Ursula K. Le Guin The Trouble with the Cotton People 26 Stephen Baxter Turing's Apples 20 Alastair Reynolds Turquoise Days 27 John C. Wright Twilight of the Gods 2 Lewis Shiner Twilight Time 19 Paul McAuley The Two Dicks 23 Elizabeth Bear Two Dreams on Trains 10 Terry Bisson Two Guys from the Future 16 Howard Waldrop US 9 Kim Newman Übermensch! 16 Chris Lawson Unborn Again 3 George R. R. Martin Under Siege 28 Damien Broderick Under the Moons of Venus 27 Karl Bunker Under The Shouting Sky 15 William Sanders The Undiscovered 19 James Patrick Kelly Undone 27 Maureen F. McHugh Useless Things 27 Robert Charles Wilson Utriusque Cosmi 20 Geoff Ryman V.A.O. 25 Ian McDonald Verthandi's Ring 16 Michael Swanwick The Very Pulse of the Machine 29 Gwyneth Jones The Vicar of Mars 4 Walter Jon Williams Video Star 27 Ian McDonald Vishnu at the Cat Circus 11 Don Webb A Visit to the Farside 7 William King Visiting the Dead 9 Jack M. Dann Voices 16 Liz Williams Voivodoi 22 Christopher Rowe The Voluntary State 29 Ken MacLeod The Vorkuta Event 26 Gwyneth Jones The Voyage Out 1 Poul Anderson Vulcan's Forge 8 Jonathan Lethem Walking the Moons 11 Walter Jon Williams Wall, Stone, Craft 9 Geoffrey A. Landis A Walk in the Sun 13 Greg Egan Wang's Carpets 3 Lewis Shiner The War at Home 29 Peter S. Beagle The Way It Works Out and All 8 Bruce Sterling We See Things Differently 13 David Marusek We Were Out of Our Minds with Joy 15 Bill Johnson We Will Drink a Fish Together 17 David Marusek The Wedding Album 14 Gregory Feeley The Weighing of Ayre 21 Kage Baker Welcome to Olympus, Mr. Hearst 19 William Sanders When This World Is All on Fire 29 Geoff Ryman What We Found 24 Kage Baker Where the Golden Apples Grow 20 John Meaney The Whisper of Discs 11 Maureen F. McHugh & David B. Kisor Whispers 8 Lewis Shiner White City 14 Steven Utley The Wind Over the World 17 Robert Reed Winemaster 15 Geoffrey A. Landis Winter Fire 4 William Gibson The Winter Market 7 Neal Barrett, Jr. Winter on the Belle Fourche 20 Steven Popkes Winters Are Hard 15 Michael Swanwick The Wisdom of Old Earth 13 Ursula K. Le Guin A Woman's Liberation 17 Chris Lawson Written in Blood   24 Paolo Bacigalupi Yellow Card Man 15 Greg Egan Yeyuka 12 Eliot Fintushel Ylem 23 Alastair Reynolds Zima Blue

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