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Year's Best SF 4

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Travel to the Farthest Reaches of the Imagination

Acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell is back with his fourth annual high-powered collection of the year's most inventive, entertaining, and awe-inspiring science fiction. In short, the best.

Here are stories from today's top name authors, plus exciting newcomers, all eager to land you on exotic planets, introduce you to strange new life forms, and show you scenes more amazing than anything you've imagined.

So sit back and blast off for an amazing trip with

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Bio of David G. Hartwell

David G. Hartwell, called an editor extraordinaire by Publishers Weekly, is one of science fiction's most experienced and influential editors. As an editor with Berkley Books, Pocket Books, William Morrow, and Tor Books, he has worked with many of the field's best authors and edited many award--winning works. He is the author of Age of Wonders, a nonfiction study of the science fiction field. Among his many anthologies are the bestselling World Treasury of Science Fiction and the World Fantasy Award winner The Dark Descent. He is the holder of a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Columbia University, a winner of the Eaton Award, and has been nominated for the Hugo Award twenty-four times.

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Imprint

HarperCollins

Filesize

1.28 MB

Number of Pages

496

eBook ISBN

9780061156007

Excerpt from: Year's Best SF 4 by David G. Hartwell

Market Report
ALEXANDER JABLOKOV
Alexander Jablokov published his first short story in 1985 and his first novel, Carve the Sky, in 1991. He is one of the most interesting SF writers to come to prominence in the 1990s. He has published five novels to date (his latest is Deepdrive, 1998), and occasional short stories. Some of his best work is collected in The Breath of Suspension (1994). He is part of the Boston-area SF writers workshop chaired by David Alexander Smith, the group that produced the collaborative original anthology, Future Boston (1994). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction calls his work "both rounded and exploratory, and... generates the sense that an important SF career has gotten well underway." This story appeared in Asimov's and is the first of several in this book from that magazine, which seemed to me to publish a slightly higher percentage of SF, as opposed to fantasy of various sorts, again this past year. It was a particularly strong year for Asimov's. This was Jablokov's only short fiction this year.

Islid out of the rental car's AC, and the heat of the mid-western night wrapped itself around my face like a wet iguana. Lightning bugs blinked in the unmown grass of my parents' lawn, and cicadas rasped tenaciously at the subdivision's silence. Old Oak Orchard was so new it wasn't even on my most recent DeLorme map CD-ROM, and it had taken me a while to find the place.

My father pulled the door open before I could ring the bell.

"Bert." He peered past me. "Ah. And where is--"

"Stacy's not with me." I'd practiced what to say on the drive from the airport, but still hadn't come up with anything coherent. "We... well, let's just say there have been problems."

"So many marriages are ended in the passive voice." His voice was carefully neutral. "Come along back, then. I'll set you up a tent."

Dad wore a pair of once-fashionable pleated linen shorts and a floppy T-shirt with the name of an Internet provider on it. His skin was all dark and leathery, the color of retirement. He looked like he'd just woken up.

"I told Mom when I was coming...."