The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection: 24 (Year's Best Science Fiction 24)

The twenty-eight 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:* Cory Doctorow * Robert Charles Wilson * Michael Swanwick * Ian McDonald * Benjamin Rosenbaum * Kage Baker * Bruce McAllister * Alastair Reynolds * Jay Lake * Ruth Nestvold * Gregory Benford * Justin Stanchfield * Walter Jon Williams * Greg Van Eekhout * Robert Reed * David D. Levine * Paul J. McAuley * Mary Rosenblum * Daryl Gregory * Jack Skillingstead * Paolo Bacigalupi * Greg Egan * Elizabeth Bear * Sarah Monette * Ken MacLeod * Stephen Baxter * Carolyn Ives Gilman * John Barnes * A.M. DellamonicaSupplementing the stories are the editors insightful summation of the years events and a list of honorable mentions making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.