James Nicoll Reviews

1996’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection is the thirteenth volume in Gardner Dozois’ Best Science Fiction of the Year anthology series. The anthology was also published under the title The Best New Science Fiction: 10^th Annual Collection, which seems pretty confusing.

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Gardner Dozois’ 1995 The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Twelfth Annual Collection is, as one might expect, the twelfth annual anthology of notable science fiction edited by Gardner Dozois. The contents of the anthology were first published in 1994. In addition to the essays listed in the table of contents, each story is accompanied by a short biographical note about the author.

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1994’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection is the eleventh (!!!) volume in Gardner Dozois’ annual Best SF anthology series. 

Two immediate thoughts …

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1993’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection is the tenth volume in Gardner Dozois’ annual anthologies of noteworthy science fiction¹.

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1992’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection is the ninth volume in the Gardner Dozois series of annual anthologies of noteworthy science fiction.

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Gardner Dozois’ 1991 The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection is the eighth annual anthology in Dozois’ Best Science Fiction series. 

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1990’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection is the seventh volume in Gardner Dozois’ annual collection of outstanding science fiction. 

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Gardner Dozois’ 1989 The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collectionis, rather unsurprisingly, the sixth volume in his series of annual anthologies collecting the best SF of the previous year. In the case of the Sixth, that year was 1988. Dozois, unlike some people I could mention, actually believed in letting years run to their end before deciding which works of that year were best.

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Gardner Dozois’ 1988 The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection is the fifth Dozois anthology of noteworthy science fiction from the previous calendar year. I too am horrified that Dozois used the term ​“collection” when ​“anthology” would have been more appropriate. 

And what did the SF of 1987 — now thirty-four years in the past — look like?

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1987’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection is the fourth volume in Gardner Dozois’ long-running annual anthology series, showcasing the previous year’s best short SF. 

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