The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published on July 5, 2011. It is the 28th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series. It won the Locus Award for best anthology.

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection

Editor	Gardner Dozois
Illustrator	Slawek Wojtowicz
Language	English
Series	The Year's Best Science Fiction
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	St. Martin's Press
Publication date	July 5, 2011
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover & trade paperback)
Pages	662 pp
ISBN	9780312546335
Preceded by	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection
Followed by	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection

UK edition cover

The anthology was also published in the UK as The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 24.

Contents

The book includes 33 stories, all first published in 2010. The book also includes a summation by Dozois, a brief introduction to each story by Dozois and a referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows:

• Robert Reed: "A History of Terraforming"
• Lavie Tidhar: "The Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String"
• Allen M. Steele: "The Emperor of Mars"
• Peter Watts: "The Things"
• Geoffrey A. Landis: "The Sultan of the Clouds"
• Kage Baker: "The Books"
• Ian R. MacLeod: "Re-Crossing the Styx"
• Tad Williams: "And Ministers of Grace"
• Eleanor Arnason: "Mammoths of the Great Plains"
• Joe Haldeman: "Sleeping Dogs"
• Steven Popkes: "Jackie's Boy"
• Nina Allan: "Flying in the Face of God"
• Cory Doctorow: "Chicken Little"
• Yoon Ha Lee: "Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain"
• Stephen Baxter: "Return to Titan"
• Damien Broderick: "Under the Moons of Venus"
• Naomi Novik: "Seven Years from Home"
• Chris Beckett: "The Peacock Cloak"
• Carrie Vaughn: "Amaryllis"
• David Moles: "Seven Cities of Gold"
• Rachel Swirsky: "Again and Again and Again"
• Hannu Rajaniemi: "Elegy for a Young Elk"
• Michael Swanwick: "Libertarian Russia"
• Lavie Tidhar: "The Night Train"
• Brenda Cooper: "My Father's Singularity"
• Jay Lake and Ken Scholes: "The Starship Mechanic"
• Alastair Reynolds: "Sleepover"
• Pat Cadigan: "The Taste of Night"
• Alexander Jablokov: "Blind Cat Dance"
• Aliette de Bodard: "The Shipmaker"
• Ted Kosmatka: "In-Fall"
• Jim Hawkins: "Chimbwi"
• Robert Reed: "Dead Man's Run"

Release details

• 2011, United States, St. Martin's Press ISBN 978-0-312-54633-5, Pub date July 5, 2011, Hardcover
• 2011, United States, St. Martin's Griffin ISBN 978-0-312-56950-1, Pub date July 5, 2011, Trade paperback

External links

• The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Review at Best SF by Mark Watson