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

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FIFTEEN-TIME WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD FOR YEAR'S BEST ANTHOLOGY

The thirty-three 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 works by masters of the form and by bright new talents, including: Nina Allan, Eleanor Arnason, Kage Baker, Stephen Baxter, Chris Beckett, Aliette de Bodard, Damien Broderick, Pat Cadigan, Brenda Cooper, Cory Doctorow, Joe Haldeman, Jim Hawkins, Alexander Jablokov, Ted Kosmatka, Jay Lake, Geoffrey A. Landis, Yoon Ha Lee, Ian R. MacLeod, David Moles, Naomi Novik, Steven Popkes, Hannu Rajaniemi, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Ken Scholes, Allen M. Steele, Michael Swanwick, Rachel Swirsky, Lavi Tidhar, Carrie Vaughn, Peter Watts, and Tad Williams.

Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's 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.

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Contents
xiii • Summation: 2010 • • essay by Gardner Dozois
1 • A History of Terraforming • • novella by Robert Reed
39 • The Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String • • shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
43 • The Emperor of Mars • [Near Space] • • shortstory by Allen Steele [as by Allen M. Steele ]
58 • The Things • • shortstory by Peter Watts
72 • The Sultan of the Clouds • • novella by Geoffrey A. Landis
108 • The Books • • shortstory by Kage Baker
119 • Re-Crossing the Styx • • shortstory by Ian R. MacLeod
132 • And Ministers of Grace • • novelette by Tad Williams
154 • Mammoths of the Great Plains • • novella by Eleanor Arnason
191 • Sleeping Dogs • • shortstory by Joe Haldeman
204 • Jackie's Boy • • novella by Steven Popkes
246 • Flying in the Face of God • • shortstory by Nina Allan
262 • Chicken Little • • novella by Cory Doctorow
298 • Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain • • shortstory by Yoon Ha Lee
304 • Return to Titan • • novella by Stephen Baxter
354 • Under the Moons of Venus • • shortstory by Damien Broderick
370 • Seven Years from Home • • novelette by Naomi Novik
392 • The Peacock Cloak • • shortstory by Chris Beckett
405 • Amaryllis • • shortstory by Carrie Vaughn
416 • Seven Cities of Gold • • novella by David Moles
452 • Again and Again and Again • • shortstory by Rachel Swirsky
455 • Elegy for a Young Elk • • shortstory by Hannu Rajaniemi
468 • Libertarian Russia • • shortstory by Michael Swanwick
477 • The Night Train • • shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
488 • My Father's Singularity • • shortstory by Brenda Cooper
493 • The Starship Mechanic • • shortstory by Jay Lake and Ken Scholes
499 • Sleepover • • novelette by Alastair Reynolds
531 • The Taste of Night • • shortstory by Pat Cadigan
541 • Blind Cat Dance • • novelette by Alexander Jablokov
563 • The Shipmaker • [Universe of Xuya] • • shortstory by Aliette de Bodard
574 • In-Fall • • shortstory by Ted Kosmatka
582 • Chimbwi • • shortstory by Jim Hawkins
599 • Dead Man's Run • • novella by Robert Reed
653 • Honorable Mentions: 2010 • • essay by Gardner Dozois