The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 1999. It is the 16th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series.
It was described as "whopper of a book, containing over a quarter million words of fiction."
Contents
The book includes a 49-page summation by Dozois; 25 stories, all that first appeared in 1998, and each with a two-paragraph introduction by Dozois; and a seven-page referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. Several of the stories have common themes: "Many of the stories in this collection deal with immortality ... [and] making first contact with an alien species."
The stories are as follows.
Greg Egan: "Oceanic" Geoffrey A. Landis: "Approaching Perimelasma" Cory Doctorow: "Craphound" Tanith Lee: "Jedella Ghost" Bruce Sterling: "Taklamakan" Ursula K. Le Guin: "The Island Of the Immortals" Paul J. McAuley: "Sea Change, With Monsters" Robert Charles Wilson: "Divided By Infinity" Howard Waldrop: "US" Ian McDonald: "The Days Of Solomon Gursky" Robert Reed: "The Cuckoo's Boys" William Browning Spencer: "The Halfway House At the Heart Of Darkness" Michael Swanwick: "The Very Pulse of the Machine" Ted Chiang: "Story Of Your Life" - "the most famous story in this collection as it was turned into the movie Arrival in 2016." Liz Williams: "Voivodoi" Stephen Baxter: "Saddlepoint: Roughneck" Rob Chilson: "This Side Of Independence" Chris Lawson: "Unborn Again" Tony Daniel: "Grist" Gwyneth Jones: "La Cenerentola" William Barton: "Down In the Dark" Jim Grimsley: "Free In Asveroth" Cherry Wilder: "The Dancing Floor" Ian R. MacLeod: "The Summer Isles"
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