The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Gardner Dozois, the thirty-fifth volume in a series. It was first published in hardcover, trade paperback and ebook by St. Martin's Griffin in July 2018. This is the last book in the series due to the editor's death.

Summary The book collects 38 novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introductory summation of the year, notes and concluding bibliography by the editor. The stories were previously published in 2017 in various science fiction and other magazines.

Contents The Moon Is Not a Battlefield, Indrapramit Das My English Name, R.S. Benedict An Evening with Severyn Grimes, Rich Larson Vanguard 2.0, Carter Scholz Starlight Express, Michael Swanwick The Martian Obelisk, Linda Nagata We Who Live in the Heart, Kelly Robson Winter Timeshare, Ray Nayler Dear Sarah, Nancy Kress Night Passage, Alastair Reynolds THE DRAGON THAT FLEW OUT OF THE SUN, Aliette de Bodard WAITING OUT THE END OF THE WORLD IN PATTY’S PLACE CAFE, Naomi Kritzer THE HUNGER AFTER YOU’RE FED, James S.A. Corey ASSASSINS, Jack Skillingstead & Burt Courtier THE MARTIAN JOB, Jaine Fenn THE ROAD TO THE SEA, Lavie Tidhar UNCANNY VALLEY, Greg Egan THE WORDLESS, Indrapramit Das PAN HUMANISM: HOPE AND PRAGMATICS, Jessica Barber and Sara Saab ZIGEUNER, Harry Turtledove THE PROVING GROUND, Alec Nevala-Lee ZEN AND THE ART OF SPACESHIP MAINTENANCE, Tobias Buckell THE INFLUENCE MACHINE, Sean McMullen CANOE, Nancy Kress THE HISTORY OF THE INVASION TOLD IN FIVE DOGS, Kelly Jennings PRIME MEREDIAN, Silvia Moreno-Garcia TRICERATOPS, Ian McHugh MINES, Eleanor Arnason THERE USED TO BE OLIVE TREES, Rich Larson WHENDING MY WAY BACK HOME, Bill Johnson DEATH ON MARS, Madeline Ashby ELEPHANT ON TABLE, Bruce Sterling NUMBER 39 SKINK, Suzanne Palmer A SERIES OF STEAKS, Vina Jie-Min Prased THE LAST BOAT-BUILDER IN BALLYVOLOON, Finbarr O'Reilley THE RESIDUE OF FIRE, Robert Reed SIDEWALKS, Maureen F. McHugh NEXUS, Michael F. Flynn

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