The Year's Best Science Fiction: 2001: Nineteenth Annual Collection (Year's Best Science Fiction)

The twenty-first century has so far proven to be exciting and wondrous and filled with challenges we had never dreamed. New possibilities previously unimagined appear almost daily . . . and science fiction stories continue to explore those possibilities with delightful results:

Collected in this anthology are such compelling stories as:

"On K2 with Kanakaredes" by Dan Simmons. A relentlessly paced and absorbing tale set in the near future about three mountain climbers who must scale the face of K2 with some very odd company.

"The Human Front" by Ken MacLeod. In this compassionate coming-of-age tale the details of life are just a bit off from things as we know them-and nothing is as it appears to be.

"Glacial" by Alastair Reynolds. A fascinating discovery on a distant planet leads to mass death and a wrenching mystery as spellbinding as anything in recent short fiction.

The twenty-six stories in this collection imaginatively takes 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:

Eleanor Arnason

Chris Beckett

Michael Blumlein

Michael Cassutt

Brenda W. Clough

Paul Di Filippo

Andy Duncan

Carolyn Ives Gilman

Jim Grimsley

Simon Ings

James Patrick Kelly

Leigh Kennedy

Nancy Kress

Ian R. MacLeod

Ken MacLeod

Paul J. McAuley

Maureen F. McHugh

Robert Reed

Alastair Reynolds

Geoff Ryman

William Sanders

Dan Simmons

Allen M. Steele

Charles Stross

Michael Swanwick

Howard Waldrop

Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

Gardner Dozois has been working in the science fiction field for more than thirty years. Since 1985, he has been the editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, during which time he has received the Hugo Award for Best Editor twelve times. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

SUMMATION: 2001

NEW LIGHT ON THE DRAKE EQUATION, Ian R. MacLeod

MORE ADVENTURES ON OTHER PLANETS, Michael Cassutt

ON K2 WITH KANAKAREDES, Dan Simmons

WHEN THIS WORLD IS ALL ON FIRE, William Sanders

COMPUTER VIRUS, Nancy Kress

HAVE NOT HAVE, Geoff Ryman

LOBSTERS, Charles Stross

THE DOG SAID BOW-WOW, Michael Swanwick

THE CHIEF DESIGNER, Andy Duncan

NEUTRINO DRAG, Paul Di Filppo

GLACIAL, Alastair Reynolds

THE DAYS BETWEEN, Allen M. Steele

ONE-HORSE TOWN, Howard Waldrop and Leigh Kennedy

MOBY QUILT, Eleanor Arnason

RAVEN DREAM, Robert Reed

UNDONE, James Patrick Kelly

THE REAL THING, Carolyn Ives Gilman

INTERVIEW: ON ANY GIVEN DAY, Maureen F. McHugh

ISABEL OF THE FALL, Ian R. MacLeod

INTO GREENWOOD, Jim Grimsley

KNOW HOW, CAN DO, Michael Blumlein

RUSSIAN VINE, Simon Ings

THE TWO DICKS, Paul McAuley

MAY BE SOME TIME, Brenda W. Clough

MARCHER, Chris Beckett

THE HUMAN FRONT, Ken MacLeod

HONORABLE MENTIONS: 2001