Year's Best SF 9 2004
By Octavia E. Butler, Geoff Ryman, Tony Ballantyne, Nancy Kress, Joe Haldeman, Charles Stross, Angélica Beatriz del Rosario Arcal de Gorodischer, Michael Swanwick, John Varley, Gene Wolfe, Gregory Benford, Ricard de la Casa Pérez, Pedro Jorge Romero, Cory Doctorow, Robert Reed, Kage Baker, Nigel Brown, Allen M. Steele, M. Rickert, Stephen Baxter, Rick Moody
- Fiction, Science Fiction, Short stories, Science fiction, american
The Future Boldly Imagined From Breathtaking New PerspectivesThe world as we will know it is far different from the future once predicted in simpler times. For this newest collection of the finest short form SF to appear in print over the preceding year, acclaimed editors and anthologists David G.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Octavia E. Butler, Geoff Ryman, Tony Ballantyne, Nancy Kress, Joe Haldeman, Charles Stross, Angélica Beatriz del Rosario Arcal de Gorodischer, Michael Swanwick, John Varley, Gene Wolfe, Gregory Benford, Ricard de la Casa Pérez, Pedro Jorge Romero, Cory Doctorow, Robert Reed, Kage Baker, Nigel Brown, Allen M. Steele, M. Rickert, Stephen Baxter, Rick Moody
- First published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Eos, HarperCollins, SFBC
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780739444504
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An American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. [Comment by Tricia Sullivan, on The Guardian][1]: Octavia E Butler (1947–2006) > I was teaching in New York when I came across Octavia E Butler's Kindred in a secondary-school catalogue of novels recommended to support diversity. It caught my attention because Butler was described as a science-fiction writer. I thought I was familiar with science fiction, but I'd never heard of her – nor have a great many other readers, I suspect. For many years, Butler was the sole African-American woman novelist in science fiction. Kindred tells the wrenching and unforgettable story of a young black
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