The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection
| Author | Edited by Gardner Dozois |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Year's Best Science Fiction |
| Genre | Science fiction anthology |
| Publisher | St. Martin's Griffin |
Publication date | 2004 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 665 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 978-0-312-32478-0 (hardcover); ISBN 978-0-312-32479-7 (paperback) |
| OCLC | 55801735 |
| Preceded by | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection |
| Followed by | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection (ISBN 978-0-312-32478-0) is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 2004. It is the 21st in The Year's Best Science Fiction series.
Contents
The book includes a 28-page summation by Dozois; 29 stories, all that first appeared in 2003, and each with a two-paragraph introduction by Dozois; and an eleven-page referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows.
- William Barton: "Off On A Starship"
- John Kessel: "It's All True"
- Charles Stross: "Rogue Farm"
- Steven Popkes: "The Ice"
- Nancy Kress: "Ej-Es"
- John Varley: "The Bellman"
- Judith Moffett: "The Bear's Baby"
- Howard Waldrop: "Calling Your Name"
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch: "June Sixteenth at Anna's"
- Walter Jon Williams: "The Green Leapard Plague"
- Paolo Bacigalupi: "The Fluted Girl"
- Jack Skillingstead: "Dead Worlds"
- Michael Swanwick: "King Dragon"
- Paul Melko: "Singletons In Love"
- M. Shayne Bell: "Anomalous Structures Of My Dreams"
- Vernor Vinge: "The Cookie Monster"
- Harry Turtledove: "Joe Steele"
- Geoff Ryman: "Birth Days"
- John C. Wright: "Awake In the Night"
- James Van Pelt: "The Long Way Home"
- Geoffrey A. Landis: "The Eyes Of America"
- Kage Baker: "Welcome To Olympus, Mr. Hearst"
- Robert Reed: "Night Of Time"
- William Shunn: "Strong Medicine"
- Dominic Green: "Send Me a Mentagram"
- Paul Di Filippo: "And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon"
- Terry Dowling: "Flashmen"
- Nick DiChario: "Dragonhead"
- Terry Bisson: "Dear Abbey"