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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection for 1984 pub in 1985 This collectionis the second installment in the popular and long-running "The Year's Best Science Fiction" series: Fantastic Science Fiction! The Year's Best -- And Biggest Collection Here's the cream of the crop: short stories, novelettes, novellas by science fiction writers already famous and awarded for their high-quality work in science fiction. Dozois's Year's Best, like any successful representative of a large constituency, sometimes suffers from blandness and inconsistency. As usual, it's oversized?23 stories, nearly 600 pages?and includes a variety of types of SF as well as near-horror, fantasy and humor. Five of the stories are final nominees for Nebulas, and two new "Hainish" stories by Ursula LeGuin were nominated for Tiptree Awards; "The Matter of Segrri" won. No story here is less than competent and professional; but, with a few exceptions, there is a voiceless sameness in the writing, practically a house style, that over so many pages grows tedious. (Nearly half the stories, by page count, come from the Dozois-edited Asimov's Science Fiction.) A number are flawed ("hard" SF stories about
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- Author
- Dozois, Gardner (editor)
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Published
- 1985
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781466807310
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 4.06 / 5 (66 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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