The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 1998. It is the 15th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series.
Contents
The book includes a 49-page summation by Dozois; 28 stories, all that first appeared in 1997, and each with a two-paragraph introduction by Dozois; and a seven-page referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows.
Robert Silverberg: "Beauty in the Night" Paul J. McAuley: "Second Skin" Nancy Kress: "Steamship Soldier on the Information Front" Greg Egan: "Reasons to Be Cheerful" Stephen Baxter: "Moon Six" Bill Johnson: "We Will Drink a Fish Together..." Peter F. Hamilton: "Escape Route" James Patrick Kelly: "Itsy Bitsy Spider" Alastair Reynolds: "A Spy in Europa" William Sanders: "The Undiscovered" Alan Brennert: "Echoes" David Marusek: "Getting to Know You" Gwyneth Jones: "Balinese Dancer" Robert Reed: "Marrow" Howard Waldrop: "Heart of Whitenesse" Michael Swanwick: "The Wisdom of Old Earth" Brian Stableford: "The Pipes of Pan" G. David Nordley: "Crossing Chao Meng Fu" Greg Egan: "Yeyuka" Carolyn Ives Gilman: "Frost Painting" Walter Jon Williams: "Lethe" Geoffrey A. Landis: "Winter Fire" Ian R. MacLeod: "Nevermore" Simon Ings: "Open Veins" Ian McDonald: "After Kerry" Sean Williams and Simon Brown: "The Masque of Agamemnon" John Kessel: "Gulliver at Home" Gregory Benford and Elisabeth Malartre: "A Cold Dry Cradle"
References
External links Story synapses by Brian Davies (scroll down) Review of Fifteenth Annual by Steven H. Silver