The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection

This edition of The Year's Best Science Fiction
collects twenty-five of the finest works of speculative fiction to see
print in 1990, stories from the genre's every edge, and from its heart.

Among
the many marvels are tales from the field's most accomplished artists:
Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Shobies' Story" returns to the Hainish worlds
with a reality-defining story, while Joe Haldeman's "The Hemmingway
Hoax" embarks from our world on a time-defying trip through other
possibilities. Kate Wilhelm, Michael Moorcock, Robert Silverberg, and
John Brunner demonstrate too with their stories why they remain among
the most popular science fiction writers of all time.

With the
closing of a decade and cyberpunk virtually becoming reality, many of
the leading writers of the eighties have begun to bring new insight and
vision to their fiction: Bruce Sterling examines a classic clash of
cultures in "We See Things Differently," and James Patrick Kelly's "Mr.
Boy" presents a hard-edged story about the guts of growing up. Lewis
Shiner's "White City" and Connie Willis's "Cibola" both seek peace--of
sorts--amid spectacle, and works by Nancy Kress, Lucius Shepard and
Robert Frazier, Pat Murphy, and John Kessel also dazzle and amaze.

Among
the many other stories in this volume are powerhouse piece by Terry
Bisson, Molly Gloss, Ian McDonald, Charles Sheffield, Alexander
Jablokov, and Dafydd ab Hugh, as well as towering new mindscapes from
young talents such as Jonathan Lethem, Ian R. MacLeod, Greg Egan and Ted
Chiang.

A wonderful tour through possible, probable, and virtual realities, The Year's Best Science Fiction is an ideal assemblage of the year's short fiction. This volume is essential to anyone who reads sf.

"A virtually indispensable series."--Kirkus Reviews