The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens: First Annual Collection

Award-winning anthologists Jane Yolen and Patrick Nielsen Hayden have combed through a years worth of books and magazines and websites to find the most outstanding fantasy and science fiction stories of 2004--and collected them into a single volume aimed specifically at teens and young adults. . Many of todays most popular authors are represented here including:* Garth Nix author of Sabriel Lirael and Abhorsen who presents an unforgettable tale of two swords two daughters and two endings....* S. M. Stirling author of Island in the Sea of Time sends a likeable young barbarian across the Channel to Alba for a confrontation with a wizard from faraway Nantucket that will change his life forever...* David Gerrold creator of The Trouble with Tribbles who takes you to a remote countryside surrounded by a mysterious darkness whose secret has yet to be revealed.... The stories in this anthology range from good to brilliant to jaw-dropping. - Cory Doctorow