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Authors: Gardner Dozois
Gardner Dozois
edited
Asimov’s Science Fiction
magazine for twenty years. He has won the Hugo Award for Best Editor fifteen times and has also received numerous Nebula Awards. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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OF BEST NEW SF 25
Edited by
GARDNER DOZOIS
Constable & Robinson Ltd
55–56 Russell Square
London WC1B 4HP
First published in the US as
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-ninth Annual Edition
by St Martin’s Griffin, a division of St Martin’s Press, 2012
First published in the UK by Robinson,
an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd, 2012
Copyright © Gardner Dozois, 2012
(unless otherwise stated)
The right of Gardner Dozois to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual events or locales is entirely coincidental.
A copy of the British Library Cataloguing in
Publication Data is available from the British Library
ISBN: 978-1-78033-882-8 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-1-78033-883-5 (ebook)
Printed and bound in the UK
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CONTENTS
A SOLDIER OF THE CITY
•
David Moles
THE BEANCOUNTER’S CAT
•
Damien Broderick
THE DALA HORSE
•
Michael Swanwick
THE WAY IT WORKS OUT AND ALL
•
Peter S. Beagle
THE ICE OWL
•
Carolyn Ives Gilman
THE COPENHAGEN INTERPRETATION
•
Paul Cornell
THE INVASION OF VENUS
•
Stephen Baxter
ASCENSION DAY
•
Alastair Reynolds
AFTER THE APOCALYPSE
•
Maureen F. McHugh
SILENTLY AND VERY FAST
•
Catherynne M. Valente
THE INCREDIBLE EXPLODING MAN
•
Dave Hutchinson
A RESPONSE FROM EST
17 •
Tom Purdom
THE COLD STEP BEYOND
•
Ian R. MacLeod
A MILITANT PEACE
•
David Klecha and Tobias S. Buckell
THE ANTS OF FLANDERS
•
Robert Reed
THE VICAR OF MARS
•
Gwyneth Jones
THE SMELL OF ORANGE GROVES
•
Lavie Tidhar
THE IRON SHIRTS
•
Michael F. Flynn
FOR I HAVE LAIN ME DOWN ON THE STONE OF LONELINESS AND I’LL NOT BE BACK AGAIN
•
Michael Swanwick
THE BONELESS ONE
•
Alec Nevala-Lee
CANTERBURY HOLLOW
•
Chris Lawson
THE MAN WHO BRIDGED THE MIST
•
Kij Johnson
PERMISSIONS
“The Choice” by Paul McAuley. Copyright © 2011 by Dell Magazines. First published in
Asimov’s Science Fiction,
February 2011. Reprinted by permission of the author.