ORBIT – Otherworldly Reads, Bold Ideas, and Tales. SF & F Short Stories and Novelettes discussion

In 2005 Dozois published a selection from the previously published annual volumes, The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction. As you would expect it’s excellent. There was a later collection chosen from the whole run of the anthology series, The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction, which I haven’t seen but which is also presumably very good.

Contents of The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction(taken from Wikipedia and edited to remove page numbers):


Greg Bear: "Blood Music"
Gene Wolfe: "A Cabin on the Coast"
Lucius Shepard: "Salvador"
Nancy Kress: "Trinity"
Howard Waldrop: "Flying Saucer Rock and Roll"
Bruce Sterling: "Dinner in Audoghast"
Pat Cadigan: "Roadside Rescue"
John Crowley: "Snow"
William Gibson: "The Winter Market"
John Kessel: "The Pure Product"
Eileen Gunn: "Stable Strategies for Middle Management"
Mike Resnick: "Kirinyaga"
Robert Silverberg: "Tales from the Venia Woods"
Terry Bisson: "Bears Discover Fire"
Connie Willis: "Even the Queen"
Robert Reed: "Guest of Honor"
Joe Haldeman: "None So Blind"
Brian Stableford: "Mortimer Gray's History of Death"
Maureen F. McHugh: "The Lincoln Train"
Greg Egan: "Wang's Carpets"
Ursula K. Le Guin: "Coming of Age in Karhide"
Michael Swanwick: "The Dead"
Ian McDonald: "Recording Angel"
Tony Daniel: "A Dry, Quiet War"
William Sanders: "The Undiscovered"
Paul J. McAuley: "Second Skin"
Ted Chiang: "Story of Your Life"
Stephen Baxter: "People Came From Earth"
David Marusek: "The Wedding Album"
James Patrick Kelly: "1016 To 1"
Walter Jon Williams: "Daddy's World"
Steven Utley: "The Real World"
Geoff Ryman: "Have Not Have"
Charles Stross: "Lobsters"
Ian R. MacLeod: "Breathmoss"
Molly Gloss: "Lambing Season"

I guess all the entries were earlier in his "year's best"s, So I planned to go through them