The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection: 26 (Year's Best Science Fiction 26)

The thirty 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: Paolo Bacigalupi Stephen Baxter Elizabeth Bear Aliete de Bodard James L. Cambias Greg Egan Charles Coleman Finlay James Alan Gardner Dominic Green Daryl Gregory Gwyneth Jones Ted Kosmatka Mary Robinette Kowal Nancy Kress Jay Lake Paul McAuley Ian McDonald Maureen McHugh Sarah Monette Garth Nix Hannu Rajaniemi Robert Reed Alastair Reynolds Mary Rosenblum Kristine Kathryn Rusch Geoff Ryman Karl Schroeder Gord Sellar and Michael Swanwick.. 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.