The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection

The thirty-two 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:John Barnes Elizabeth Bear Damien Broderick Karl Bunker Paul Cornell Albert E. Cowdrey Ian Creasey Steven Gould Dominic Green Nicola Griffith Alexander Irvine John Kessel Ted Kosmatka Nancy Kress Jay Lake Rand B. Lee Paul McAuley Ian McDonald Maureen F. McHugh Sarah Monette Michael Poore Robert Reed Adam Roberts Chris Roberson Mary Rosenblum Geoff Ryman Vandana Singh Bruce Sterling Lavie Tidhar James Van Pelt Jo Walton Peter Watts Robert Charles Wilson and John C. Wright. Supplementing the stories are the editors insightful summation of the years events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.